John J. Neumaier Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 11999

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains about 50 of Neumaier's columns (photocopies, and 2 typescripts) for the Kingston Daily Freeman, as well as business cards; clippings (photocopies and original) of newspaper articles about Neumaier; an article by Neumaier from the St Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch; and a pamphlet, "Perestroika and Ideology," by Neumaier.

Dates

Creation: 1966-2002

Creator

Neumaier, John J., 1921- (Person)

Language of Materials

This collection is in English.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Digital content is restricted to on-site access only due to copyrighted material.

Access Information

Collection is digitized, but access is restricted to on-site due to copyrighted content. Please visit the Center for Jewish History to access the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

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

John J. Neumaier, the son of Leonore Schwarz Neumaier, was president emeritus of SUNY New Paltz and former president of Moorhead State University, Minn. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1921. After attending schools in Switzerland, he went to college in Italy, where he later worked as a private secretary. In August 1938, he returned to Germany. He went to England for 14 months, and on to the US in 1940. As a newspaper columnist for the Kingston Daily Freeman, he wrote extensively about the Holocaust, about his mother and her fate, and about his experiences and firsthand observations of life in Nazi Germany before World War II. He settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, with his wife Sara Fletcher Luther.