Manfred Saalheimer Collection.
Abstract
The collection contains various documents relating to the Jewish communities in Chemnitz, Dresden and Hamburg in the late 1930s, as well as biographical information and personal documents regarding Manfred Saalheimer (1907-1967), legal representative of the Dresden Jewish community, and Josef Kahn (1881-?), president of the Chemnitz Jewish community. Also included are tributes to Otto Hirsch (1885-1941), president of Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland.
Dates
- 1932-1957
Creator
- Saalheimer, Manfred (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German.
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
Manfred Saalheimer was born 1907 in Wuerzburg. He was a lawyer, working with the Jewish community in Dresden and the Saxon community federation (Gemeindeverband). He emigrated to Canada, where he died in 1967.
Josef Kahn (1881 - ?) was president of the Chemnitz Jewish Community; he emigrated to Palestine in 1939.
Otto Hirsch was born 1885 in Stuttgart. He served as president of the Vertretung der Juden in Deutschland, and was killed 1941 in Bergen-Belsen.
Extent
2 Folders
Other Finding Aid
Also available are 7 original German language index cards with itemized descriptions.
- Antisemitism
- Archival materials
- Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956
- Chemnitz (Germany)
- Correspondence
- Dresden (Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Hirsch, Otto, 1885-1941
- Jewish community centers
- Jewish lawyers
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany
- Jüdischer Kulturbund
- Kahn, Joseph
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration
- Publications (documents)
- Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten
- Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden
- Saalheimer, Manfred
- Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)
- Title
- Guide to the Manfred Saalheimer Collection, 1932-1957 AR 3616
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- October 07, 2011 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
