Eliane and Roger Herz-Fischler family collection 1891-2011 Bulk dates: 1937-1998

The Eliane and Roger Herz-Fischler Family Collection holds papers of the family members of this couple, especially documentation of members of the Fischler (spelled Fischleiber or Fischleber prior to immigration), Holländer, Sommer, Katzenstein and Furcht families, among others. Encompassed are many official documents, correspondence, photographs, educational certificates, a small painting and a few sketches of branches of the family tree. Some of the family papers consist of scans of images and documents.Sigmund Fischleiber (alternately spelled Fischleber) was born in Leipzig on August 6, 1899, the son of the salesman Isaak Fischleiber and his wife Regina (also called Riwa, née Reinhertz). He studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig, but after immigrating to the United States in 1925 he became a salesman in the fur industry. He returned to Europe during the 1930s, spending much of the decade there, with two extended stays in Poland, France and Germany. Following his naturalization in the United States his surname was changed to Fischler.The butcher Joseph Holländer and his wife Julie (née Sommer) of Elsoff and later Hilchenbach (both Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany) had three children: Ruth, Selma and Artur. Ruth Holländer was born on January 9, 1915. She worked for a textile manufacturer and in a clothing store prior to her immigration. On November 1, 1937 she left Germany, staying for a day with her cousin Albert Herz in Paris before being taken to the boat train the following day. From November 3 through November 9 she sailed on the S.S. Aquitania to the United States, where she met Sigmund Fischler. On March 19, 1939 they were married and in February 1940 had a son, Roger. The Fischlers settled in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.Joseph and Julie Holländer's younger daughter Selma was born in 1920 in Hilchenbach. On July 4, 1939 she arrived in England. She worked as domestic help and in childcare in various households until her departure for the United States in November 1947. In September 1955 she met Freddy (born Fritz) Furcht. Fritz Furcht came from Frankfurt am Main, where his parents owned a feather store; in 1939 he fled Germany for Shanghai, where he stayed until the end of the Second World War. Freddy and Selma Furcht also lived in Washington Heights.Albert Herz from Haiger, Hessen, had fled to France in early September 1935. There he met Coralie Weill; they married on February 3, 1936 and lived in Paris. Albert Herz had been part of the French Foreign Legion. In 1941 they had a daughter, Eliane, and in 1958 the Herz family immigrated to the United States.Shortly following the arrival of the Herzes in the United States, Albert Herz took his family to visit his cousin, Ruth (Holländer) Fischler. On April 12, 1964 Eliane Herz married Roger Fischler.Processeddigitize