Abraham M. Neumann, father of Helen Neuman Berger (donor), collected the materials over the span of his life. The collection became the possession of Gertrude Neumann, wife of Abraham Neumann, at the time of his death in Jan. 1989. One year later, Gertrude Neumann gave the collection to her daughter, Helen Neuman Berger. Helen Neuman Berger and her husband, Paul Berger, donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Aug. 15, 1997. Helen N. Berger provided the inventory and preliminary description for the collection at the time of donation.