IfZ - Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• 3000/9/1/6
• English
• 6 items
• Updated 6 years ago

Comprising primarily notes and memos the correspondence centres on meetings with The Wiener Library’s project researcher Francis L. Carsten as well as a meeting with IfZ project researcher Hans Mommsen and a review of his work.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• 3000/9/1/20
• English
• 13 letters
• Updated 6 years ago

The correspondence reflects the planning phase of the . Its subject is the clarification of basic conceptual, financial, and personnel questions. The latter includes the decision to appoint Helmut Krausnick as one of the two editors of the projects. Beside letters the bundle contains a detailed memo on a meeting of Alfred Wiener, Eva Reichmann, and Paul Kluke at The Wiener Library (1954).

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• 3000/9/1/21
• English
• 96 letters
• Updated 6 years ago

The correspondence illustrates nearly a decade of cooperation of Helmut Krausnick and Alfred Wiener as responsible editors of the planned . The project’s early stage was shaped by determining several conceptual, legal, financial, and personnel questions (1954/1955). While the IfZ was tasked with compiling material on the persecution of Jews the Library was held accountable for a part on opposition, resistance and help for Jews. From 1957 the correspondence reflects gradually growing problems of the project’s implementation finally leading to its termination. The amount of available material...

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• 3000/9/1/22
• English
• 20 items
• Updated 6 years ago

The correspondence reflects the last stage of the . It centres on H. Mommsen’s contribution to the project, i.e. a revision and completion of existing parts on the Nazi persecution of Jews. The letters address different approaches to the topic as well as general delays related to Mommsen’s leave of the IfZ. The correspondence contains two versions of a memo on a meeting between Alfred Wiener, Johann Wolfgang Brügel, Helmut Krausnick, and Hans Mommsen (1961), two internal notes by Eva Reichmann und J. W. Brügel on Mommsen’s work (1961), an unsigned memo on conversations with H. Krausnick and...