Correspondence with Wolffheim, Nelly

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/1573
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110079
Dates
28 Jun 1956 - 17 Oct 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Nelly Eleonore Wolffheim (1879-1965) was a Jewish-German social worker and pioneer of psychoanalytical pedagogy. She established the first psychoanalytic kindergarten in Berlin, and ran a Jewish kindergarten seminar after the Nazis had come to power. In 1939 she emigrated to England. Her published works on education and psychoanalysis were widely well received. See Kerl-Wienicke, A.,Nelly Wolffheim: Leben und Werk, Gießen, Psychosozial Verlag, 2000.

Scope and Content

The correspondence focuses on Wolffheim’s research on child survivors from the Nazi concentration camps and their post war fates as well as the submission of eyewitness accounts she had recorded as interviewer for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Related Units of Description

People

  • Wolffheim, Nelly

Subjects

Places

  • Third Reich [1933-1945]
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