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Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

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

Erich Ahrens Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4384
Abstract

The collection is composed of personal documents of Erich Ahrens and various manuscripts and translations.

Dates: 1911-1972

Ernest and Elise Marx Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25135
Abstract

This collection contains materials pertaining to the Marx family in Frankfurt am Main prior, during and shortly after World War II. The collection documents the lives of Elise Marx and her two children, Hans and Claire, in correspondence to Ernest while he is in Egypt. Materials in this collection are primarily letters, along with some professional and legal documents.

Dates: 1938-1950; Majority of material found within 1939-1945

Ernst Kantorowicz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7216 / MF 561
Abstract

Correspondence on various topics, including emigration to the United States and Cuba; relocation in academic jobs; denazification and conditions in Germany after the war; and Kantorowicz's scholarship. Unpublished manuscripts, and offprints of articles and reviews by Kantorowicz, largely on medieval cultural history; a brief biography of him by Ralph Giesey. Manuscripts, correspondence, legal briefs, clippings, and other material on the loyalty-oath controversy; material on Kantorowicz's tenure at the University of Frankfurt, and on his dismissal. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of family members; an art history essay by Gertrude Kantorowicz and a pamphlet of poetry from Theresienstadt; genealogies; and a manuscript on Simon Kaliphari of Posen; manuscript by Kaete Ledermann, A Memorial of Angi ("Esther") Kantorowicz, c. 1904-1944, 1954, including transcript compiled by Guenther Roth. Photos of Kantorowicz and of family members. Papers of Richard Kandt (1867-1918), an African explorer and, from 1908-1914, administrator of Ruanda: poems, letters, maps, and obituaries. Addenda: Original lectures by Kantorowicz. Photocopies for reader service.

Dates: 1918-1991

Erwin Taenzer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25675
Abstract

The correspondence, newspaper clippings, and official documents contained in this collection chronicle the impact of World War II on the life of Erwin Taenzer, an electrician and the son of a rabbi, and his extended family.

Dates: 1923-2007; Majority of material found in 1930s

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

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

Eugene Leoni family papers

 Collection — Consolidated Box P17, Folder: P-623
Identifier: P-623
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence, official documents, and the German passports of Eugene and Cecilia Leoni. The passport documents the addition of their Jewish names, and their efforts to leave Austria after the Nazi occupation. Collection also includes their son Leon's school report cards, textbooks, exercise books from Vienna, and a school certificate from Havana, Cuba. One of the report cards indicates that Leon was transferred to another school for Jewish children in 1938, and the exercise books also reflect Hitler's occupation.

Dates: 1928-1962

Experiences in the life of Martin Reich.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25271 / MF 1017
Abstract

Personal documents of Martin Reich and his mother, Emma, describing their lives in Mannheim, Germany and Strasbourg, France prior to their immigration to the United States.

Dates: 1916-1946

Firma F.V. (Falk Valentin) Gruenfeld Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2259 / MF 566
Abstract

Various published and archival materials pertaining to the textile company F.V. (Frank Valentin) Gruenfeld.

Dates: 1854-1979

Frankl-Kulbach Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25568
Abstract

The Frankl-Kulbach Family Collection contains materials documenting the lives of members of the Frankl, Kulbach, and related families, particularly art historian Paul Frankl and his wife Elsa Frankl, and their daughters Johanna Kulbach née Frankl, Susan Wilk née Frankl, and Regula Davis née Frankl. Through family histories, correspondence, diaries, vital documents, writings, and photographs, the collection covers their lives in Germany before World War II, their efforts to immigrate to the United States, and their lives and careers in the United States.

Dates: 1728; 1867-2015

Fred Grubel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3695 / MF 1020
Abstract

Personal and professional documents of Fred Grubel relating to his work in the Jewish community in Leipzig and later on in the Leo Baeck Institute.

Dates: 1883-1999; Majority of material found within 1920-1997

Frederick Brunner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4237
Abstract

The Frederick Brunner Collection incorporates the research of the banker and LBI board chairman Frederick Brunner. Prominent subjects encompassed in this research include the Rothschild family and the history of Jews in Landau in der Pfalz. Some research on banking history and Jews as bankers may also be found here. The collection contains extensive newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, notes, genealogical tables and family trees, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1711-1972; Majority of material found within 1930-1970

Fritz Haber Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 182
Abstract

Original correspondence consists of one letter each to Peter Pringsheim (1912); Joseph Koeth (1928); and A. Sommerfeld; as well as six letters to Ernst Stern (1907-1908). A handwritten 1933 letter from Fritz Haber to Chaim Weizmann in Mannern, Switzerland (6 pages) is available as a photocopy only. Also included is a typescript by Hans Schaeffer on Jews in Breslau (photocopy), Die soziale, politische und religioese Stellung der juedischen Familien in Breslau um die Jahrhundertwende 1900. The typescript is part of a letter by Hans Schaeffer to Johannes Jaenicke, also in the collection.

Dates: 1907-1960

Fuerth Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 994
Abstract

Various materials related to the Jewish community of Fuerth.

Dates: 1705-1974

Gabrielle Greenberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25528
Abstract

The focus of this collection lies on the correspondence between Lily Lösser and her daughters Yutta (Judy) and Gaby (Gabrielle) during their time of separation 1943-1946. The rest of the collection is made up of personal albums, official correspondence, documents and other material.

Dates: 1908-2012; Majority of material found within 1943-1946

George and Hildegard Lewin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6264
Abstract

This collection contains documents and artifacts belonging to George and Hildegard Brandes Lewin and their family members. In addition to vital records, correspondence and photographs, there are handwritten music manuscripts and pencil drawings.

Dates: 1814-1987; Majority of material found within 1919-1945

George and Paul Ehrlich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11418
Abstract

The collection contains concert programs; photograph of the painting Tanzpause by Benjamin Vautier; letter to Dr. Eduard Ehrlich regarding his membership in the Verband der Wiener Fachärzte; letter to Dr. Eduard Ehrlich from the Ärztekammer für Niederösterreich regarding his official title; letter to Irene Ehrlich regarding affadavits for her family, along with an additional personal letter to her regarding emigration; articles about Karl Pick, on the occasion of his 60th birthday; photocopy of a photograph of Leopoldine Ehrlich; and medical diploma for Eduard Ehrlich.

Dates: undated, 1925-1938

Gottfried Saloman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12066 / MF 1744
Abstract

The bulk of the collection consists of original correspondence between Gottfried Saloman and Marta Mierendorff, 1938-1939, as well as Mierendorff’s journal entries from 1941. Much of the material concerns philosophy, or is poetic, flowery and romantic with a background of angst.

Dates: 1938-1952, 2002

Gumprecht Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25735
Abstract

This collection comprises materials used by the Gumprecht family to escape Germany after 1933. Included are family letters and information about the ship that took them to America.

Dates: 1881-2017; Majority of material found within 1941

Gundersheimer Siegel Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25546
Abstract

The Gundersheimer Siegel Family Collection holds papers of the art historian and professor Hermann S. Gundersheimer as well as papers of members of the Gundersheimer and Siegel families. With a focus on the professional work of Hermann Gundersheimer and the family's emigration, the collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, lecture texts and notes, official documents, articles, certificates, genealogical research and family trees.

Dates: 1834-2004; Majority of material found within 1925-1942

Gunter J. Neumann Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25570
Abstract

The collection holds papers, photographs, notes and documents pertaining to three generations of the Neumann family.

Dates: 1899-2001; Majority of material found in 1928-1940, 1964-1993

Günther Schwerin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10633
Abstract

This collection contains documents pertaining to restitution claims for Schwerin family property from the German and Polish governments. Family photographs, vital records and correspondence among family members are in this collection.

Dates: 1903-1999; Majority of material found in 1938-1961

Hamburg Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 193 / MF 346
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and a large number of programs and announcements regarding the Jewish community in Hamburg, mostly during the 1930s.

Dates: 1931-1995

Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem" Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 255
Abstract

Clippings, book reviews and published commentaries concerning Hannah Arendt’s book "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and the controversy that it caused, in particular regarding the question of collaboration by Jewish communal organizations, notably the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, and the role of such leaders as Leo Baeck.

Dates: 1963-1966

Hannelore Daniels Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25518
Abstract

This collection contains mostly Hannelore Daniel’s diaries which reflect her everyday life, childhood memories, and Holocaust experiences as well as her creative writing on similar topics. Most of the material is written in old German script.

Dates: 1940s-2010; Majority of material found within 1961-1976

Hans and Edith Baron Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25685
Abstract

This collection comprises photographs and letters pertaining to the family life and studies of the historian Hans Baron and his wife Edith, as they immigrated from Nazi Germany and adjusted to the United States.

Dates: 1938-1971; Majority of material found in 1938-1942, 1949

Hans Schäffer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25556
Abstract

This collection contains a wide variety of materials by and about statesman Hans Schäffer (1886-1967) and his family.

Dates: 1849-2002; Majority of material found within 1903-1967

Hellmann-Kirchberger Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25655
Abstract

The collection holds diaries, memoirs, reports, letters and papers pertaining to five generations of the Hellmann-Kirchberger family. A prominent topic is the life of the family in the Lahn area in Rhineland in the 18th and 19th century. Additional topics are the emigration from Nazi Germany and immigration to the United States. Letters and diaries that are included in the collection draw an intense picture of the distinct impacts of historical and social events from the 18th until the beginning of the 21st century.

Dates: 1710-2014; Majority of material found in 1863-1915, 1937-1950

Henry Heinz Brecher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11701
Abstract

The collection contains documentation of the Henry Heinz Brecher family, including a questionnaire, vital records, articles, photographs, correspondence, and family trees.

Dates: circa 2003