Werner Tom Angress Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection holds documents relating to the work of history professor Werner Tom Angress, as well as some that provide information on his refugee and wartime experiences. Among the papers of this collection are extensive research material, correspondence and articles by him, students' manuscripts, and papers pertaining to the Gross-Breesen training farm for Jewish emigrants.
Dates
- 1904-1994
- Majority of material found within 1950-1980
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Collection is microfilmed, please use MF 924.
This material has been digitized to expand access while protecting the materials from degradation through physical handling. Access to the original materials in the reading room of the Center for Jewish History in New York City will only be granted to users who can demonstrate a legitimate research need to do so. Please submit requests to view original materials via email to lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org and include a description of your research project and an explanation of why access to the physical materials is necessary.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Werner Tom Angress was born in Berlin in 1920. When he was sixteen years old, he attended the Gross-Breesen agricultural training farm near Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He immigrated to the United States via Holland in 1939. In 1941 he joined the U.S. army, and in 1943 attended the interrogator's training program at Camp Ritchie for German-speaking soldiers. Two years later he returned to the United States from his service in Germany. After attending college in Connecticut he became a professor of history, eventually teaching at the University of California at Berkeley and SUNY Stony Brook. He has written several books on German and Jewish history.
Extent
5.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection holds documents relating to the work of history professor Werner Tom Angress, as well as some that provide information on his refugee and wartime experiences. Among the papers of this collection are extensive research material, correspondence and articles by him, students' manuscripts, and papers pertaining to the Gross-Breesen training farm for Jewish emigrants.
Processing Information
A number of materials from Series II: Research were deaccessioned during the processing of this collection. Among these were photocopies of published articles, offprints from academic journals, and numerous clippings without significant annotations. To preserve the bibliographic information of deaccessioned academic articles, separation sheets with bibliographies of the removed articles were placed in folders or title pages of removed articles were retained. Deaccessioned clippings were from popular periodicals from the 1960s through the 1990s, and covered the following topics: the Third Reich, the Holocaust, East and West Germany, the International Anti-Semitic Revival, Bitburg, Kurt Waldheim, and Israel.
During microfilming and consequent digitization the arrangement of the collection has been disrupted.
- Angress, Werner T.
- Antisemitism -- History
- Articles
- Berlin (Germany)
- Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Education, Higher
- Historians -- Germany
- Jews -- Persecutions
- Jews, German
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Reprints
- Research notes
- Socialism
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Jews
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews
- Title
- Guide to the Werner Tom Angress Collection, 1904-1994 AR 25321 / MF 924 Reels 1-11
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Dianne Ritchey
- Date
- © 2018
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- April, 2018: Finding aid was recreated by Emily Andresini.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
