Sylvia Neulander collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Sylvia Neulander (1908-1989) was born in Ohio in 1908 to Rabbi Jeremias Neulander and Betti Neulander. She had nine siblings including Arthur Harold Neulander (1896-1988), Elisabeth Neulander (1897-?), Alice Elizabeth Hartley (1898-1985), Ernest Neulander (1903-1982), Richard Neulander (1905-1996), Violet Wolfson (1908-2002), Margaret Rachunow (1911-1994), Edith Kopelman (1912-2003), and Grace “Dassie” Marquit (1918-2011). Sylvia joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and worked in the United States zone in Germany after the war. Sylvia Neulander died in 1989. 

Sylvia Neulander collection 

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The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform. 

The Sylvia Neulander collection is arranged in a single series.