Pre-1963 Correspondence

Identifier

WL3000/9/1

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

93200

Dates

1 Jan 1946 - 31 Jan 1966

Level of Description

Collection

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/93200

Extent and Medium

53 boxes

Scope and Content

This large series of correspondence, traditionally referred to as the 'Pre 1963 Correspondence', broadly covers the period from the immediate aftermath of World War Two to just after Alfred Wiener's death. It covers a vast array of subject matter and contains 1600 correspondents including politicians, historians, theologians, resistance fighters, Holocaust survivors, civil servants and private researchers. Some of the more widely covered themes include Christian-Jewish relations; historiography; eyewitness testimony; restitution claims; postwar antisemitism

System of Arrangement

The series has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 1,591

Correspondence regarding a trip to Poland
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1
- English
- 1957
- 18 items
- Updated 4 days ago
Containing internal material from The Wiener Library exclusively, the bundle includes reports on: the conference at the Auschwitz Memorial, a research stay at the Żydowsky Instytut Historyczny (Jewish Historical Institute) in Warsaw, visits at a Jewish cultural association, at the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, and at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
Correspondence regarding Dokumentenwerk - with Bundeszentrale für Heimatdienst - Franken, Paul
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/10
- English
- 1954-1961
- 13 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
The correspondence centres on organizational issues related with the Dokumentenwerk project. It documents different approaches of Alfred Wiener and the project's board member Karl Thieme regarding the book's composition (1954) as well as internal discrepancies with Francis Carsten, the project researcher employed by The Wiener Library (1960-1961).
Correspondence with Avineri, Shlomo
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/100
- English
- 10 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence concerning Avineri’s use of the Library as well as some details related to his research.
Correspondence with Mueller, Ernst
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1000
- English
- 1953-1963
- 67 items
- Updated 4 days ago
Beside the exchange of materials on historical as well as current affairs the correspondence focuses on research Mueller conducted for the Library, issues related to the postwar activities of some Kartell-Convent (K.C.) branches and the person of Bruno Weil, and an eyewitness account by Mueller for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. Contained are some press cuttings and an invitation for a public talk in London.
Correspondence with Müller, Alfred Leopold
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1001
- English
- 1963
- 4 items
- Updated 4 days ago
Correspondence regarding an enquiry by Müller for tracing a copy of a memorandum he had written allegedly against the Nazi persecution of Freemasonry. Contained are two extensive but unclear reports on his expierences.
Correspondence with Müller, Dr. Fritz
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1002
- English
- 1955-1956
- 9 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Correspondence regarding enquiries by Müller for published material on the Nazi persecution of Jews.
Correspondence with Müller, Ernst K.
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1003
- English
- 1962
- 4 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Working on a study on the persecution of Jews in the German state of Hesse, the letters concern an enquiry by Müller for source material on this topic.
Correspondence with Müller, Gerhard
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1004
- English
- 1960
- 5 items
- Updated 4 days ago
Correspondence regarding the sources of Antisemitism. Contained is a 16-page manuscript of Müller on this this subject.
Correspondence with Müller, Hans
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1005
- English
- 1961-1963
- 20 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Working on a study on the persecution of Jews in the year 1933, the correspondence centres on enquiries by Müller for published as well as primary source material on this topic. This includes the use of some eyewitness accounts from the Library’s eyewitness testimony project.
Correspondence with Müller, Klara
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1006
- English
- 1956-1962
- 15 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Illustrating the close association of the correspondents but containing letters by The Wiener Library nearly exclusively, the correspondence centres on personal matters as well as Müller's apparent contribution to the Library’s eyewitness testimony project. Contained is a handwritten card by Müller.
Correspondence with Muller, Max
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1007
- English
- 1960-1961
- 7 items
- Updated 4 days ago
Likely initiated by a restitution related enquiry by Muller the correspondence centres on the exchange and debate of material related to the expropriation of Jews by the Nazis. Contained is a postcard by Muller from Berlin.
Correspondence with Muller, Robert
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1008
- English
- 1960-1962
- 11 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Beside Mullers subscription for a Wiener Library membership the correspondence deals with work related enquiries by him, concerning requests for contact details, bibliographic, and historical information.
Correspondence with Müller, Wolfgang
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1009
- English
- 1952-1963
- 15 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
The correspondence centres on the mutual consignment of published and unpublished material, including a transcript of a presentation Müller gave at an international resistance fighter conference. Furthermore, The Wiener Library requests his assistance in compiling further reports for the institution’s eyewitness testimony project. The correspondence falsly containes a letter to Evangelic publicist Erich Müller-Gangloff.
Correspondence with Back, John H.
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/101
- English
- 1955
- 3 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Correspondence regarding a Jewish Biographical collection compiled by Carl Steininger.
Correspondence with Mumm, Giselher
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1010
- English
- 1961
- 1 letter
- Updated 4 days ago
An enquiry by Mumm for documentation of his persecution by the Gestapo during the Nazi era.
Correspondence with Münchener Jüdische Nachrichten - Moses Lustig
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1011
- English
- 1956
- 3 items
- Updated 4 days ago
Contained is a letter and 2 two copies of a memo on a meeting of Alfred Wiener and Moses Lustig. The latter outlined briefly the history, size, constitution, and proportions (those of German and those of Eastern Europeans (’Ostjuden’) descent) of Munich’s postwar Jewish community.
Correspondence with Münchhausen, Hilmar Hieronymus Freiherr von
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1012
- English
- 1959
- 1 letter
- Updated 4 days ago
A letter reflecting the correspondents’ meeting at a conference.
Correspondence with Munk, Elie
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1013
- English
- 1954
- 3 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Brief correspondence regarding Alfred Wiener’s invitation to a Claims Conference meeting, and the discussion of a book certain book.
Correspondence with Munster, Dr. R. O.
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1014
- English
- 1959-1963
- 26 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
The correspondence deals with restitution related enquiries by Munster, covering the following issues: Nazi camps in the Lublin area; forced drafts to the army in Lithuania during the war; pre-war activities of Nazi organisations in the Kattowitz area (now Katowice, Poland); children camps in France; forced labourers; Nazi activities in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russian Federation) in 1932; Antisemitism in Rumania. Contained is a brief statement by Arthur Cohn (Switzerland) on an assault on Kurt Sabatzky in Königsberg 1932.
Correspondence with Munter, Kurt
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL3000/9/1/1015
- English
- 1962
- 3 letters
- Updated 4 days ago
Correspondence regarding an enquiry for old B’nai B’rith publications Munter addressed on behalf of the Brazilian B’nai B’rith chapter/ lodge at the Library.

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