An Album of Photographs and Documents – US Army Interpreter in Post-Holocaust Bavaria

An album of photographs and documents, which had belonged to Maurice Schellevis (Schellekes). Bavaria, Germany, ca. 1945-46.
Schellevis, born in Zandvoort, Holland, in 1922, was a war prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp, near Mauthausen. After the war, he served as an interpreter for the American Army in Bavaria and was appointed Mayor of Riederau am Ammersee in the region of Landsberg, Bavaria. He died in Haifa in 1988.
The album contains approx. 140 photographs, post WW II (some earlier or later photographs and some family photographs) as well as approx. 25 documents, including: a release certificate of a prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp (May 1945); certificate issued in Landsberg, certifying that the holder was a political prisoner during the war (August 1945); letter of recommendation certifying that after his release Schellevis worked as an interpreter in a US Army field hospital (October 1945); letter from the Red Cross in Bavaria (December 1945); vehicle license for driving in the American Zone (1946) in Germany; Driving license (Landsberg 1945); temporary ID issued by UNRRA (December 1946); Letter of recommendation written by the director of the Wilheim city theater, April 1946; and other documents. Enclosed: a "U.S Army Interpreter" armband and an additional fabric badge.
Size and condition vary. Album: 30X20 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Most of the documents and photographs are mounted to the pages of the album. Stains. Tears to several documents.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.