Correspondence with Lichtenstein, Erwin

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/900
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110634
Dates
22 Sep 1956 - 24 Jun 1962
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Dr Erwin Lichtenstein (1901-?) was an Israeli lawyer of German descent. He had worked for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V.) and for the German League of Human Rights in the early 1920s. From 1933 he served as head of the Jewish community in Danzig (now Gdansk). In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 234.

Scope and Content

The correspondence centres on three issues: published and unpublished material on the Jewry of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland); the submission of an article on the persecution of Jews from Danzig in the Nazi era and the efforts to publish it in the Library’s Bulletin or the German learned journal Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte; and details regarding two restitution cases Lichtenstein was working on in Germany. The latter concerned the failed emigration of Jews from Danzig to Palestine and their internment on Mauritius by the British authorities.

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People

  • Lichtenstein, Erwin

Subjects

Places

  • Gdansk
  • Mauritius
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