Hans Bial Collection
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the materials in this collection concern Arthur Bial's education and professional career as a physician in Germany, his emigration to the Netherlands in the 1930s and internment in the Westerbork camp. There is also a diary-memoir written by his son who also survived internment in Westerbork.
The bulk of the materials in this collection document Arthur Bial's education and professional career as a physician in Germany. A substantial number of documents also pertain to his internment in Westerbork camp.
There are also a handfull of Arthur Bial's vital documents, many of which appear to have been issued by the German government prior to his emigration to the Netherlands. Among the more remarkable of the personal papers are a birthday card presented to Bial in 1944 in Westerbork and an honorary title or degree issued by an East German university to Bial after the war. He is depicted in a drawing on the birthday card as camp physician.
Dates
- 1889-1953
Creator
- Bial, Hans, 1910-2000 (Person)
- Bial, Arthur, 1877-1954 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, Dutch and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
Collection of letters under copyright by the author. See Deed of Gift.
There may be other 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
Arthur Bial was born in 1877 in Striegau and died in 1954 in Amsterdam. He and his son Hans Bial were among the 600 prisoners remaining in the Westerbork camp at the end of the war.
Extent
1 Folders (+1 oversized folder)
Abstract
The bulk of the materials in this collection concern Arthur Bial's education and professional career as a physician in Germany, his emigration to the Netherlands in the 1930s and internment in the Westerbork camp. There is also a diary-memoir written by his son who also survived internment in Westerbork.
Other Finding Aid
A handwritten inventory list is in folder 1.
Separated Material
Zur Geschichte der israelitischen Religionsgemeinde Plauen i.V. (publication on the history of the Jewish community in Plauen) by has been removed to the LBI Library. See call number DS 135 G4 P62 S35.
Hans Bial 's Westerbork memoir Briefe an Hetty: Tagebuch aus dem Lager Westerbork 17. Sept. 1944-12. Mai 1945 (ME 1629) has been removed and cataloged separately in the LBI Memoir Collection.
Arthur Bial's Iron Cross Second Class medal and honorary cross for front soldiers (Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer) have been removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection.
Note
Several items are photocopies and their legibility is not optimal.
- Title
- Guide to the Hans Bial Collection, 1889-1953 AR 6390
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2012
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- February 26, 2013 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
