» Semel (Vera Nathans) papers, 1830-1996

Photographs, birth certificates, marriage certificates, identity cards, passports, and other papers of Vera Nathans Semel, a Dutch Jew who survived World War II in hiding. Most papers, including birth and marriage certificates, relate to Nathans’s maternal family, the Paerls. Pre-war photographs show Nathans’s maternal grandparents and uncle in Amsterdam post-war photographs show her, her parents, husband, and children in Beverwijk and Bussum, both in the Netherlands, and in Scarsdale, New York.