Charles and Elly Weill Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains materials pertaining to the emigration of Carl and Emmy Weil from Germany and their restitution case, as well as some family correspondence and documents.
The first folder contains an extensive inventory of Karl and Elly Weil's possessions upon emigration in 1940. A large amount of correspondence and a few documents such as affidavits, all located in the third and fourth folders, also relate to the couple's emigration to New York. These folders also house a large amount of family correspondence, in part because family members who had left Germany and other relatives were involved in Carl and Elly's emigration process. In the last folder is some legal correspondence pertaining to the Weils' restitution cases. Finally, a few photographs are in folder two; the remaining photographs showing a family vacation on Rügen have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Dates
- 1936-1962
Creator
- Weill, Charles S., 1891- (Person)
- Weill, Emmy, 1899- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German 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
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
Karl S. and Elly Weil changed their names to Charles S. and Elly Weill upon naturalization as United States citizens in 1945. Karl was alternately spelled Carl in some instances; furthermore, Charles S. and Elly Weill were sponsered in their United States emigration by Charles L. Weill, a cousin of Charles S. whose father Louis emigrated to North Carolina in 1873.
Extent
5 Folders
Abstract
This collection contains materials pertaining to the emigration of Carl and Emmy Weil from Germany and their restitution case, as well as some family correspondence and documents.
Separated Material
An album with vacation photographs from the island of Rügen (1926) has been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
- Title
- Guide to the Charles and Elly Weill Collection, 1936-1962 AR 6491
- 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
- July 17, 2013 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
