Bernhard and Rosette Schragenheim, with their son Julian, arrived in South Africa in 1934, to escape the Nazi regime in Germany. The bulk of the material is from Germany and has been divided up into numerous sections. The correspondence lists the personal and official correspondence of members of the extended Schragenheim family between 1877 and 1978. The documentation lists the range of personal and professional documentation preserved by members of the family between the mid-19th and mid-20th century. The publications include published papers, booklets and newspapers from Germany and South Africa. The photographs range from the 1880s in Germany until the 1980s in Israel and South Africa. The collection includes family and military portraiture, identity photographs and numerous picture postcards which contain both family portraits and personal letters addressed and often stamped. Many of the photographs also contain captions at the back. The special collection of feldpostkarte (field postcards) is dated between 1915 and 1918, and provides rare documentation of the life and experience of German soldiers in the field. Most of the feldpostkarten include a photograph and a letter or caption. The photographs span from the Eastern to Western front, including parts of Poland, Belarus, Russia, and later on, France and Germany. The ephemera include a range of collectable medals, diaries, and assorted items.