Rauch Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 1078

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Forms part of the South Texas Jewish Archives. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center and requires 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Content Description

JIMR- Jewish Institute of Medical Research news clipping and photograph; United Jewish Campaign 1963 booklet; Photograph from Beth El with Gerald Rauch (Confirmation Photo) names are listed on the back; The Message of Congregation Beth Yeshurun pamphlet with Rauch Lectureship and son’s Bar Mitzvah announcement; Speech given at the National Conference of Christains and Jews by Gerald Rauch and photographs, letters, and telegrams from the evening; This is Your Life- Morris Rauch Scrapbook (February 8, 1959) from the Beth Yeshurun Annual on Southmore -- collection of photos, transcript from the night, and telegrams; postcard 1940- for M. Rauch at 2334 Underwood, Braeswood; 1941 San Jacinto High School Yearbook; and newspaper clippings

photo album- severe water damage and possible mold- Shamrock Hotel, April 26, 1954. Scans and photographs were taken of the photographs, then the album was discarded.

Forms part of the South Texas Jewish Archives.

Dates

Creation: 1939 - 2012

Creator

Unknown (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection open for research without restriction.

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from the Rauch family papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library. The Woodson Research Center use policy is that researchers assume sole responsibility for any infringement of privacy, literary rights, copyrights, or other rights arising from their use of the archival materials. In addition to any restrictions placed by donors, certain kinds of archival materials are restricted for the life of the creator plus 50 years. These materials include, but are not limited to, student grades, transcripts, and any job applications or recommendations.

Biographical / Historical

Rauch family history:

Max and Annie Rauch were the great-grandparents of Linda Rauch Susman and the parents of Morris Rauch. They were immigrants from Austria who lived in Galveston, where on October 28th 1895 Morris Rauch was born. He died at the age of 64 in 1959. He married Bertie Leder Rauch (born in Russia, and grew up in Wharton, Texas) whom he met through mutual friends in California. Morris and his brother Meyer had a fruit-selling business in Humble, Texas. Later he had his own scrap metal and pipe supply business which led to strong connections in the oil field supply industry. Bertie and Morris had a son - Gerald Rauch.

Gerald met his future wife Lila Levey when they were both teenagers (17 and 16 years old) during one of the family visits to California. They dated for 4 years until they got married in 1945. Gerald went to USC for a year and then enlisted in the U.S. Army and stayed in service until after the end of WWII.

Gerald and Lila had a daughter - Linda Rauch (future Rauch Susman), born in 1948. She grew up in Riverside. Her grandfather Morris passed away when she was 11, but she still remembers him. Both her parents and grandparents were close friends with the Feld family. They are now related by blood and marriage (between Linda’s niece Emily and Genie Feld’s son Brent). Gerald Rauch passed away on October 22, 2008. Lila Rauch passed away in 2023.

Extent

2.25 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Two boxes containing correspondence, photographs, news clippings, awards, letters and postcards, documents some activities that the Rauch family was involved in from 1939 to 2012.