Correspondence with Cahnmann, Werner J.

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/251
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109555
Dates
11 Aug 1955 - 8 Mar 1960
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Biographical History

Prof. Dr. Werner Jacob Cahnman (1902-1980) was a US-American sociologist of Jewish-German descent. In the early 1930s he had campaigned for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V.). After being imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after the November Pogrom 1938 he emigrated to the US. See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 52.

Scope and Content

The correspondence centres on an article about The Wiener Library Cahnmann had published in the Chicago News Forum, and on an internal report he authored for the Library about the Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) in New York. A copy of this report (1955) as well as related payment issues are included. Furthermore, the situation and role of former Nazis living in Egypt is a subject in this correspondence.

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People

  • Cahnman, Werner J.

Subjects

Places

  • United States
  • Egypt
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