Alfred Büchler Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains a number of Alfred Büchler's school papers from educational institutions in Vienna and Shanghai, as well as his German passport and a travel calendar from his emigration out of Austria.
The bulk of the school papers comprise report cards, first from secular and Jewish religious schools in Vienna. After 1938 Büchler attended a Jewish secondary school in Vienna and preparatory courses for emigration through the Jewish community administration (Kultusgemeinde). The remaining school papers date to his life in Shanghai and include report cards both for secondary school and university. Additional materials added at a later time include photocopies of official Austrian documents prepared upon his emigration in 1940-1941, as well as a call for membership in an Austrian-Jewish synagogue in New York City (1940).
Addenda: Inventory of the Alfred Buechler Collection at the Graduate Theological Union's Flora Lamson Hewlett Library. Transcript of oral history, interview with Alfred Buechler about his experiences in Vienna and his emigration to Shanghai.
Dates
- 1934-1947, 1985, 1995-1996
Creator
- Büchler, Alfred, 1927- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, English and Mandarin.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow 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
Born 1927, Vienna, emigration to Shanghai 1941, then to the United States.
Extent
2 Folders
Abstract
This collection contains a number of Alfred Büchler's school papers from educational institutions in Vienna and Shanghai, as well as his German passport and a travel calendar from his emigration out of Austria.
Other Finding Aid
The original German-language inventory is available in the folder.
Separated Material
A short memoir of Büchler's emigration from Vienna, How we got out, and why, perhaps, some others didn't has been removed to the LBI Memoir Collection as ME 755, and is also available online by clicking here
Note
The travel calendar appears to have suffered water damage, so many of the entries are blurry and illegible.
- Title
- Guide to the Alfred Büchler Collection, 1934-1947, 1985, 1995-1996 AR 4817
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall, Michael O'Connor
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- July 2015:: dao links added by Emily Andresini.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository