Correspondence with Borchard, Lucy

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/176
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109480
Dates
19 Nov 1954 - 9 Aug 1964
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Lucy Borchard, nee May (1877-1969) was a Jewish-German ship owner. A trained teacher, she had married the holder of a Hamburg-based ship company. After her husband’s death in 1930 she took over the management position. Borchard eventually emigrated to England in 1938.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 80.

Scope and Content

The correspondence concerns Borchard’s financial contributions to The Wiener Library as well as an enquiry for writing an eyewitness account for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

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Related Units of Description

People

  • Borchard, Lucy

Subjects

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