Collection of Letters and Paper Items – A Physician and a Nurse in Hadassah, Jerusalem – 1920s–1950s

About 100 letters, drafts, photographs, notebooks and paper items which belonged to the couple Yehiel and Chaya Gruenfeld, a physician and a nurse in "Hadassah" organization and in clinics in Jerusalem. Jerusalem and other places in Palestine and Europe, 1920s through 1950s. Polish, German, Hebrew and other languages.
Among others, the collection includes:
* Arm band for volunteers in "Hadassah". A blue fabric band with an embroidered red Star of David and "Yael [Yad Ezra LaChole] Hadassah".
* Certificate dated 4.1.1926, typewritten on official letterhead of Hadassah Medical Organization, indicating that "Yehiel Gruenfeld works in Rothschild hospital as a volunteer". Ink-stamped with the hospital's stamp.
* Three student cards in the name of Yehiel' Gruenfeld's, from his studies in Karl Franzens Universität, from the years 1919-1921 (different certificates). On each appears a photograph and personal details (behind one of the photographs appears a folded note with a poem handwritten in Hebrew).
* About 45 letters and drafts, most of them written by hand, sent to and from the Gruenfelds in different periods: four letters from physicians and directors in "Hadassah" hospital, on official stationery of "District Health Office, Jerusalem", concerning the work of Chaya Gruenfeld as a chief nurse in "Etzion" immigrants camp in 1950; draft of a telegram dated 7.7.1949 sent by Yehiel Gruenfeld to David Ben-Gurion "on behalf of Tobiansky-Gruenfeld families" in appreciation for "rehabilitating the name and honor of the commander Meir Tobianki" (Tobianski was executed after being found guilty of treason during the Independence War and was exonerated a few months later, with the support of David Ben-Gurion); tens of letters from family members and acquaintances (mostly in Polish and German, from the 1920s and 1930s), sent from different towns in Europe: Lublin, Zielona Góra, Radom, Warsaw and other places; more letters.
* Postcards, handwritten notes, about 25 photographs (most of them from the 1950s), ten bank notes and other items. Original envelopes are enclosed with some of the letters.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.