Correspondence with Cohn, Arthur

Identifier
3000/9/1/281
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
File
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

52 letters

Biographical History

Arthur Cohn (born 1884) was a Jewish-German merchant and B’nai B’rith official. He had fled Germany in 1933. In the late 1950s he served as chairman of its Advisory Council on European Affairs. See Walk, J., , Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 57.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding restitution efforts of the Advisory Council on European Affairs of B’nai Brith for looted assets of former Lodges in Germany. The Wiener Library’s support of these efforts includes the provision of information material to Arthur Cohn as well as the commission of an expert report on the estimated worth of the assets of the former Frankfurt am Main Lodge. Contained is a copy of an affidavit related to this expert report as well as some correspondence with Benjamin Ferencz, Maurice Bisgyer and Martin Sulzbacher, author of the mentioned report.

Conditions Governing Access

open

People

  • Sulzbacher, Martin
  • Bisgyer, Maurice
  • Ferencz, Benjamin
  • Cohn, Arthur

Corporate Bodies

  • B'nai B'rith

Subjects

Places

  • Frankfurt am Main
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