Correspondence with Weltlinger, Siegmund

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/1522
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110028
Dates
31 Mar 1955 - 31 Dec 1960
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Siegmund Weltlinger (1886-1974) was a German Holocaust survivor and politician. After being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom 1938, he sent his children to England with a Kindertransport. Weltlinger and his wife Grete went into hiding eventually. After the war he became a highly regarded politician in the senate of West Berlin and served as president of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation for many years.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 384.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding certain details of the persecution and deportation of Jews from Berlin during the Holocaust, birthday wishes, bibliographic information, and the sending of published material. Contained are two copies of birthday wishes by politicians Otto Suhr and Joachim Tiburtius.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Weltlinger, Siegmund

Subjects

  • Survivors
  • Deportations

Places

  • Berlin, West
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