Eva Dukes Collection

This collection contains material relating to the personal and professional activities of Eva Dukes. It includes incoming personal correspondence from 1938 to 1943, from just before her flight from Austria to her settling in the United States. It also includes materials about Dukes's teenage years as a student at the Schwarzwaldschule in Vienna, such as correspondence from the 1990s with fellow alumnae and a typescript by Dukes entitled "The Last 5th R.G. and Bits and Pieces of Schwarzwaldschule" (1988), which consists primarily of brief autobiographies of about a dozen Jewish former students, and also has some information about the school.

Professional materials relating to Eva Dukes's work as a writer, researcher and translator include correspondence about her search for two favorite children's books from her youth, Jüdische Kindermärchen (1932) by Ilse Weber (née Herlinger) and Das verschlossene Buch; juedische Maerchen (1925) by Irma Singer (aka Irma Miriam Berkowitz). Also found here are typescripts of selected translations from these books into English, as well as extensive correspondence between Dukes and Singer, after Dukes discovered Singer living in Israel in the 1970s. This collection contains other correspondence and publications that appear to relate Dukes's professional life, including a 1947 publication by Romanian-Jewish artist Auren Marculescu (Aron Marcovici) entitled "Ghetto si Lagar," containing essays about Marculescu and reproductions of his woodcuts depicting life in concentration camps.