Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Thomas Richards and Ann Herrmann-Richards donated the Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 with three accretions the same year and another accretion in 2003. Accessions previously numbered 1996.A.507, 1996.A.533, 1996.A.534, and 2000.35 have been incorporated into this collection.