The donor assembled the materials in this collection, comprised principally of correspondence exchanged among Steinbach family members and between Steinbach family members and others. In Mar. 1992, he gave the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections and Acquisitions Department, which turned them over to Museum's Research Institute Archives that same month while retaining some additional materials sent by the donor at the same time (ref. 11 Mar. 1992 memo from Krain to Chamberlin in the Donor File). According to the donor, the three otherwise blank sheets of paper in the collection, bearing the signature"Gustav Israel Steinbach" were intended to be used for applications for immigration.