Harry Jarvis: family papers

Identifier
WL1617
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 71001
Dates
1 Jan 1801 - 31 Jan 1999
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

The depositor, Harry Jarvis, was, at the age of 16, sent by his father, Adolf Jaslowitz to Great Britain to stay with relatives, on account of growing anti-Semitism in Romania. Harry's parents and sister, Sonja, remained and spent much of the war years in various concentration camps and internment camps. They managed to survive this experience only for Sonja to be killed as the result of a British bombing raid. Adolf died shortly afterwards and Lotte came to Great Britain to be with her son. Whilst training to be a barrister she wrote a number of short stories (1617/3).

Samuel Nissen was a distant cousin of the depositor who was handed over to the Gestapo by the French in Tours, sent to Drancy internment camp and deported to Auschwitz where he survived the war (1617/5).

Mike Ovitz (1617/7), cousin of depositor, was an agent to many celebrities in the USA and later became vice-president of Universal Studios.

Hermann Jaslowitz was the depositor's grandfather.

Acquisition

Family papers, 1 box

Donated September 2004

Donor: Harry Jarvis

Scope and Content

This collection contains the family papers of a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz), Bukovina, Ukraine. It is a relatively rare example of material from the German speaking Jewish community of this region and, as such, is valuable evidence of a now effectively extinct era. Item 1617/14 is an accrual which was added on 3.2.2011.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Related Units of Description

  • Note that in addition to the material below the following books which were accessioned at the same time have been integrated into the library: Lieder des Ghetto (67996); Selected Poems and Prose by Paul Celan edited by John Felstiner (65541); Zur Geschichte der Juden in Czernowitz (65543); The Last Jews of Radauti (65546); Juden in Hannover, by Peter Schulze (79752); Fekete Napok, by Orias Pal (65540); The Artists of Terezin by Gerald Green (65544); Die Kunst zu überleben, by Albin Eisenstein (59522); Russische Eisblumen, by Rachelle Rosenzweig (59514)

    Note: item 1617/11 is an accrual which was added on 10.7.2009

    See also 2011/48

People

  • Jarvis, Harry
  • Jaslowitz family

Subjects

  • Jews

Places

  • Chernivt︠s︡i
  • Bukovina (region)
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