Salpeter family collection

The collection consists of correspondence, claim forms, documentation, banking statements, and receipts for payments to file paperwork illustrating the experiences of Claire (Klara) Salpeter Greenwald and her attempt to gain reparations from the German government in the 1950s and 1960s and Swiss banks in the 1990s and 2000s. The claims relate to her parents and sisters, including efforts to claim losses for her father's business as well as life insurance policies related to each individual. The paperwork dealing with claims against Germany is in German and English, and often involves the United Restitution Office (URO) in New York City and Germany. The paperwork dealing with the Swiss bank is in English and involves The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims and the Claims Restitution Tribunal in the United States, Germany, and Switzerland. Ojser Salpeter (Oskar, b. 1884) was born on January 20, 1884 in Radomyśl, Poland (present-day Ukraine). Brunhilde Salpeter (Bronia/Breindl, née Issler, b. 1891) was born on April 28, 1891 in Radomyśl. Oskar and Brunhilde Salpeter married in Dortmund, Germany on August 26, 1919. They moved to Düsseldorf, Germany where their four daughters were born: Klara Salpeter (May 30, 1923- ), Rieka Salpeter (Rika, November 8, 1925- ), Dorothea Salpeter (Dora, February 24, 1928- ), and Charlotte Salpeter (Lotte, April 8, 1930- ). In 1938, Klara Salpeter immigrated to the United States. On October 29, 1938, the Salpeter family was forced out of Germany into Poland, along with thousands of other Polish Jews. The family was forced to travel from town to town including Poznań, Tarnów, and Mielec. Klara Salpeter last heard from her family in late 1941. They are presumed to have perished in either Belzec or Auschwitz concentration camp.