Carola S. Trier Collection

The Carola S. Trier Collection contains materials pertaining to the life of Carola S. Trier. Also includes materials related to her father, Eduard Strauss. The collection is divided into five series: memoirs, correspondence, notes, books and clippings and consists of clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, official documents, and photographs.

The bulk of the collection consists of Carola S. Trier’s manuscript ( Series I), which focuses on her family, education, and her time as a dancer in France after 1935.

There is only a small amount of correspondence, dating back to the early 1980s. A remarkable exception is correspondence with friends of Marcel Neydorf, her fiancé in France, asking for money to buy a new gravestone for his grave. Other correspondence includes correspondence with organizations Carola S. Trier belonged to and the German state of Hesse, from which she received subsidies after her husband's death (Edgar Trier).

Little information about the time between 1942 and 1980 can be found in the collection. Her notes (Series II) indicate that she worked as an exercise adviser. Correspondence in Series III provides information about the names of friends in the forms of greeting and thank you cards. Some information about Carola S. Trier can be found in the book notes and dedications she kept ( Series IV). But they are not numerous.

A larger part of the collection consists of clippings, which she collected mainly from The New York Times and Aufbau. They give an impression of Carola S. Trier's short and long-term interests in several topics. Prominent is her long-term interest in Jewish culture, life, and personalities.

Another part of the Carola S. Trier Collection consists of documents from her father, Eduard Strauss. Those are just a few of his notes and correspondence, but she kept a lot of his books ( Series V). Many of the books contain notes by Eduard Strauss or dedications to him. Remarkable are two editions of a book he wrote (Aufsaetze und Anmerkungen 1919-1945). Carola S. Trier copied his notes from one edition into another.