Correspondence with Berman, Joseph

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/137
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109441
Dates
10 Nov 1958 - 26 Oct 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Joseph Berman (aka Joseph Behrmann or Josef Dubin-Behrmann; 1925-1995) was a British Holocaust survivor of Jewish-Latvian descent. Upon his liberation from Buchenwald concentration camp he was involved in compiling the Buchenwald Report and was featured in an official report by a British parliamentary delegation that had visited the liberated camp site. Berman settled in England and made appearances in several motion pictures in the 1950s and 60s. Shortly before his passing he was subject of the German documentary Mr. Behrmann - Leben, Traum, Tod.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding Berman's restitution case and an information request on certain German individuals suspected of having participated in the killing of Jews from the Riga ghetto. Further contained are two accounts on Antisemitism in the GDR and the lack of information on the Jewish fate at the newly opened Buchenwald Memorial.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Related Units of Description

  • See also further material by and about Berman in The Wiener Library’s Eyewitness Testimony Collection (collection reference: 1656) and the Committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Baltic countries (collection reference: 539).

People

  • Berman, Joseph

Subjects

Places

  • Third Reich [1933-1945]
  • East Germany [1949-1990]
  • Weimar-Buchenwald
  • Buchenwald
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