Alice Salomon Collection
Scope and Content Note
Professional and vital certificates, diplomas, honors, awards, and essays on feminism and social work.
Notes on her interrogation by the Gestapo in folder 2
Genealogy of the Salomon family with supporting materials in folder 5
Dates
- 1877-1961
Creator
- Salomon, Alice, 1872-1948 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Collection is microfilmed (MF 1044).
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
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
Alice Salomon earned her doctor diploma (Dr. phil.) as early as 1906 with a dissertation on unequal pay for equal jobs for men and women (‘Die Ursachen der ungleichen Entlohnung von Maenner und Frauenarbeit’). She received an honorary doctorate in medicine in 1932 on occasion of her 60th birthday. At the time she was given by the Prussian government a silver medal for her services in social welfare, and the Wohlfahrtsschule Pestalozzi-Froebelhaus was renamed “Alice Salomon-Schule".
Alice Salomon had been born Jewish of Jewish parents. She converted to the Lutheran church in 1914. When she returned from a trip to the United States to Germany in the spring of 1937 she was called for a lengthy interrogation by the Gestapo and was ordered to leave Germany within three weeks. She emigrated to England where she received her immigration visa to the United states (according to her passport). Her arrival in the USA was noted in the Herald Tribune and the New York Times. She received honors in the USA in 1939 and in 1942.
A collection of family data was started by Alice Salomon in 1933. A letter by a friend gives details about the Potocki family; Anna Potocka was Alice Salomon’s mother.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Abstract
Professional and vital certificates, diplomas, honors, awards, and essays on feminism and social work.
Arrangement
- I. Personal Documents
- II. Lectures
- III. Family trees and genealogical material
Other Finding Aid
4-page inventory.
Microfilm
Collection is available on 1 reel of microfilm (MF 1044).
Separated Material
Manuscript of Salomon's autobiography, entitled "Character Is Destiny," written after her emigration to the United States, removed to the LBI Memoir Collection (ME 810).
Photographs removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
- Archival materials
- Correspondence
- Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei
- Jews -- Germany -- Genealogy
- Political persecution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Potocki family
- Salomon, Alice, 1872-1948
- Solomon family
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Women -- Education
- Women -- Employment
- Women educators
- Women social workers
- Women teachers
- Title
- Guide to the Alice Salomon Collection, 1877-1961 AR 3875 / MF 1044
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
