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Adolf Wolfermann Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 1957

Abstract This collection mostly consists of personal correspondence, including communications from relatives and friends interned in concentration camps in France, Lublin, and Theresienstadt, and letters regarding the establishment of an agrarian training camp for Jews in Italy.

Dates: 1934-1962; Majority of material found in 1934-1946

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Annie Heim Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 6142

Abstract The collection consists primarily of correspondence to Annie Heim from her brother Ernst Bernstein regarding his efforts to emigrate with his wife. There also also documents and correspondence pertaining to the composer Rudolf Senger.

Dates: 1938-1973

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Carola S. Trier Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25039/MF 771

Abstract The Carola S. Trier collection consists of the personal documents of Carola S. Trier. The bulk of the collection consists of her memoirs, covering a period from 193 to 1942. The collection also includes Carola S. Trier's personal and official correspondence and personal documents, as well as notes and notebooks by her father, Eduard Strauss. Also included clippings, mostly from The New York Times and Aufbau.

Dates: 1910-2000

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Eric Davidson Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 7245

Abstract The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings and other published materials regarding various Jewish communities, topics, and personalities, all compiled by Eric Davidson. Also included is the correspondence to and from Davidson that helped to acquire these materials.

Dates: 1830-1982

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Erica Furnberg Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 10807

Abstract The collection consists of the correspondence, personal documents and family photos of Erica Furnberg, her mother, and daughter. A large part of the correspondence deals with Erica's attempts to help her sister Magda to emigrate from France to the USA.

Dates: 1881-1998; Majority of material found within 1887-1969

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Ernst Scheuer and Rosi Moses-Scheuer Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25281

Abstract This collection contains documents, diaries and personal correspondence of Ernst Scheuer and Rosi Moses Scheuer. They document their life in Paris and their imprisonment in French detention centers in 1939-40 and in Spanish prisons 1940-41. The documents illustrate the struggle for U.S. Visas and the subsequent emigration to the United States, as well as the efforts to establish themselves in New York. The collection also contains numerous manuscripts written by Ernst and Rosi Scheuer, a large number of them being autobiographical.

Dates: 1870s-1999

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Ettinger Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25547

Abstract This collection contains the papers of the Ettinger family originally of Fulda, Germany, and related families. Materials include personal papers, official and legal papers, photographs, and some personal correspondence and ephemera. The collection reflects the experience of some family members in internment and forced labor camps in France, their later immigration to the United States, and their restitution claims. The photographs are either formal portraits or depict leisure activities from the late 19th century through the 1930s.

Dates: 1891-2006

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Eugen Neter Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 1619

Abstract The Eugen Neter Collection documents the professional and personal life of the Mannheim pediatrician Eugen Neter and centers on his professional work and postwar life in Israel. Notable in the collection are the examples of his writing, the biographical articles about him and the material on the Gurs concentration camp. The collection additionally includes some of his correspondence, papers and correspondence of other family members such as Mia Neter, and newspaper clippings on other individuals.

Dates: 1880-1976; Majority of material found within 1939-1974

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Eugen Neter collection

Collection

Identifier: LBIJER 736

Abstract The collection contains contains various materials pertaining to Eugen (Yitzhak) Neter, collected by Shlomo Marcus.

Dates: 1900-1996

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

France (concentration camp) Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3987 / MF 836

Abstract The bulk of the collection is an assembly of various reports, amounting to a document of 907 pages in ten sections: the reports originate mainly from the "Comité de Coordination pour l'Assistance dans les Camps" (CCAC; also known as "Comité de Nîmes") and other organizations, such as the “American Friends Service Committee” (AFSC) and YMCA pertaining to foreign – particularly Jewish – refugees in unoccupied France during WW II.

Dates: 1938-1998

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Fred Strauss Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25127

Abstract Fred Strauss was the son of Milian Strauss (1893-1964), a textile businessman in Frankfurt am Main during the 1930s. This collection consists of the personal papers of the Strauss and Neu families. The bulk of the collection is correspondence written from 1938-1941 and restitution papers from the 1960s. Other materials include personal identification papers, vital records, and emigration papers.

Dates: 1892-1966, 2003; Majority of material found within 1939-1966

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Gerda Lerner Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25149 / MF 1008

Abstract The collection contains materials related to several members of the Kronstein/Neumann/Mueller families; both original documents as well as additional biographical information and excerpts from Gerda Lerner's book "A Death of One's Own". The bulk consists of correspondence, mainly written from Ilona Kronstein's exile in Nice to her daughter Gerda in the United States. In one letter, Ilona Kronstein describes a brief stay in the Gurs camp. Most of the correspondence has been summarized by John and Eva Englander, the summaries are included in the folders.

Dates: 1939-1978

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Gurs (Concentration camp) Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 2273

Abstract This is a constructed collection of items related to the internment and concentration camps in France in operation during World War II. The bulk of the materials relate to the Gurs camp and stem from 1940-1942. Other camps mentioned are St. Cyprien and Vichy. Materials include correspondence, photographs, personal accounts, lists of prisoners, a death certificate, clippings, reports and minutes of relief organizations, poems and songs, and reproductions (photographs, photocopies, and slides) of artwork depicting Gurs.

Dates: 1940-1989

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Henry Bauer Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25204

Abstract This collection gives a diverse insight into the Henry Bauer family. It holds family trees, memorial and prayer books, notebooks, certificates and correspondence of different family members. The second part of the collection focuses more strongly on Henry Bauer and his life, elucidating the time he spent in Germany as well as the time after his immigration to the United States. His persistent efforts to obtain a visa for his younger brother and his parents to release them from Camp de Gurs are documented in official correspondence and documents, as well as in extensive correspondence with his parents between 1940 and 1941, which makes up the collection's largest part.

Dates: 1893-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1941

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Höxter Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 6875

Abstract This collection contains correspondence sent by Käthe and Hugo Höxter, first from their home in Mannheim, and then beginning late 1940 from the Gurs camp, to their son Heinz (Henry) in Louisiana.

Dates: 1938-1945, 1991

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Jack and Miriam Gerber Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25503

Abstract This collection contains materials about Jack Gerber and Miriam Gerber née Sondheimer. In particular, it includes materials about their emigration to and settlement in the colony of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic.

Dates: 1801-2002; Majority of material found within 1932-1960

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Jacob Barosin Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25275

Abstract This collection documents the academic, professional and private life of Jacob Barosin (1906-2001), a painter and artist of Russian-Jewish descent. Barosin was raised in Berlin, but he fled to France in 1933 and in 1943 survived a stint in the Gurs concentration camp. The collection primarily contains correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, official documents, personal papers, and photographs.

Dates: 1892-1999; Majority of material found within 1926-1973

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Julius S. Held Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25002

Abstract This collection documents the family history of art historian Julius S. Held (1905-2002), who was born in Mosbach, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1934. The bulk of the collection consists of personal family correspondence. Other materials include genealogical tables, a few business and educational records, personal notes, a few anti-Semitic flyers, clippings, a ketubah, and a portrait of Rabbi David Sinzheim.

Dates: 1800-1999

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Luis Stern Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3728

Abstract This collection consists mainly of correspondence sent to Luis Stern from Jewish refugees in France and Spain between 1940 and 1943. Having emigrated to Spain from Germany himself in the early 1930s, Stern assisted others in obtaining visas and organized other forms of relief. Correspondents include detainees in Gurs, Figuera, and Miranda de Ebro, as well as refugees living throughout France and Spain.

Dates: 1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1940-1943

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Margo Wolff Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 1470 / MF 482

Abstract This collection documents the life and work of journalist Margo Wolff. It contains personal papers, correspondence (including a 1953 letter in the Addenda by writer Walter Meckauer to Wolff), articles, clippings, and diaries.

Dates: 1904-1990

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Marianne Berel Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 5343 / MF 845

Abstract Clippings, correspondence, published and unpublished articles on learning disabilities and music therapy; contains testimony on her experience in the internment camp of Gurs, France.

Dates: 1938-1996

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Milli Frank Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: AR 6686

Abstract This collection contains letters and postcards sent to Milli Frank in Brooklyn, New York, between 1937 and 1944, by her parents, aunts, and uncles in Germany, and later, France. None of them appear to have survived the Holocaust. The collection also includes a small number of letters from cousins and others.

Dates: 1937-1945

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Mosevius-Bloch Collection.

Collection

Identifier: AR 6345

Abstract The collection contains various vital documents, records, and correspondence relating to the Mosevius and Bloch families.

Dates: 1755-1993

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Otto Neubauer Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25339

Abstract The focus of this collection is on the experiences of Otto Neubauer (1907-2000) and his family members from 1938-1945 with a particular emphasis on their efforts to secure emigration visas for Maximilian Neubauer, Ernst (Elias) Neubauer, and Frieda Weil. Most of the collection consists of correspondence. Other materials include a diary, a cookbook, limited immigration and restitution documents, and records of Otto Neubauer’s schooling, apprenticeships, and employment.

Dates: 1914-2005; Majority of material found within 1938-1945

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Rosa Traub Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25900

Abstract The collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Rosa Traub and some of her extended family members. Included are Rosa Traub’s diary from Camp de Gurs, a photocopy of her identity card, her handwritten last will and testament, and other items, such as documents pertaining to her nephew Max Liebmann and photo negatives of Albert Einstein.

Dates: undated; 1920-1950s

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Ruth Knox Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 11446

Abstract The collection contains a brief essay by Ruth Knox née Liebermensch regarding her childhood in Mannheim and emigration from Germany; song printed on the occasion of the wedding of Samuel Liebermensch and Gisela Schiff; and sheet music edited by Samuel Liebermensch, entitled "Lieder des jüdischen Hauses."

Dates: undated, 1918-circa 1989

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Ruth Worth Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25024

Abstract This collection consists of the personal papers of Ruth Worth (1915-1997). Born in Halberstadt, Germany, Ruth Worth was held in Camp de Gurs before immigrating to the United States in 1941. Materials include personal correspondence, personal documents, legal papers and correspondence related to restitution and inheritance claims, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1858-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1995

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Semi Uffenheimer Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25892

Abstract The Semi Uffenheimer family collection contains the papers of Semi Uffenheimer and his famliy, and documents the effects of Nazi persecution on their lives, his emigration to Argentina and the fate of his mother Anna, his father Adolf and his sister Flora, who were deported to the concentration camp of Gurs, France. The collection also holds information about other members of Semi’s family. Much of the collection is correspondence between Semi and his sister, focusing on the family’s life in Germany and later in the concentration camp of Gurs. Furthermore the collection contains genealogical research documents such as family trees; documents relating to Semi’s marriage search; and some photographs and postcards.

Dates: 1928 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1949

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

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