Robert Popper Collection
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 includes the following documents:
Questionnaire I of the Austrian Heritage Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute
Geburtsschein (original and copy)
3 Zeugnisse ueber Beendigung des Studiums (originals)
Heimatschein und Meldezettel (originals)
2 Bestaetigungen der Aerztekammer Tirol (originals)
Steuerliche Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung (original)
Bestaetigung ueber "Volljuden-Status" (original)
Fuehrungszeugnis ausgestellt von der Kultusgemeinde (original)
Amtsaerztliches Zeugnis (original)
Leumundszeugnis (copy)
2 Papiere des War Departments, des American Jewish Congress (copies)
Einfuhrgenehmigung ueber den Transfer der Verstorbenen Eltern Popper nach England (copies)
2 Postkarten des Judensteins
’Mitgliederverzeichnis’, Juedischer Jugendbund, Universitaetsstrasse 4, 1090 Vienna in 1937, containing list of members, list of Jewish physicians, attorneys, bankers and business men.
Dates
- 1909-1999
Creator
- Popper, Robert (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
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
Dr. Robert Popper was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, on May 16, 1909. He studied at the medical school of the Leopold Franzens University, and became a physician. He was a member of the Zionist youth group "Blau Weiss" in Innsbruck, Austria. He fled the Nazis via Lithuania (Kaunas), Latvia (Riga), Belgium (Gent), France (Paris), Switzerland (Zurich) and England (Hythe, Kent), before he finally arrived in the USA.
Henriette Weiss (1864-1931) founded "Waldschule", an orphanage for WWI orphans. She was instrumental in establishing Austrian sanitariums for patience with lung-diseases.
Extent
2 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains vital records, education certificates and other documents pertaining to the physician Robert Popper. Also included are two photographs of Henriette Weiss and the Weiss family, respectively.
- Title
- Inventory of the Robert Popper Collection , 1909-1999 AR 10839
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The inventory is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
