Correspondence with Cohn, George

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/283
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109587
Dates
16 Mar 1956 - 12 Oct 1964
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Dr George Cohn (1892-1965) was a Jewish-German lawyer from Berlin. After the Nazis came to power he emigrated to England, where he continued practicing. The committed zionist was also involved with the Youth Aliyah. See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 58.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding numerous restitution related information requests which concerned: the ghetto in Riga; the emigration of Jewish-German refugees to Turkey 1933-1936; the Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellen Organisation (NSBO); fatigue duty for Jews in Hungary; deportations from Berlin; the ghetto in Chernivtsi; internment camps in Italy; the ghetto in Belzyce; special terms on gold coins in Austria; a Jewish asylum in Breslau; a hospital for children in Prague; the legal situation in Danzig after the German occupation; a case of Rassenschande in Frankfurt am Main; the situation of married couples in Theresienstadt; and antisemitic incidents in Poland before 1939.

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People

  • Cohn, George

Subjects

Places

  • Third Reich [1933-1945]
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