Correspondence with Liebeschütz, Hans

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/902
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110636
Dates
1 Sep 1952 - 7 Jan 1964
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • The Wiener Holocaust Library

Biographical History

Prof. Dr. Hans Liebeschütz (1893-1978) was a Jewish-German historian and medievalist. After being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom 1938 the World War I veteran had emigrated to England. Since the mid-1940s he taught at Liverpool University. He became one of the co-founders of the Leo Baeck Institute in 1955.

See Liebeschuetz, W., ‘Liebeschütz, Hans’, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 14, Berlin, Duncker&Humboldt, 1985, pp. 489-90.

Scope and Content

The long-term correspondence covers various topics including: remarks on archival material in Hamburg (1952); the contriibution of Liebeschtütz to a Festschrift for Leo Baeck as well as problems with receiving a sufficient number of copies after its publication (1954); the writing of a review for the Library’s Bulletin (1956); the consignment of two eyewitness accounts of Alice Bloemendahl for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1957); giving advice on a third person’s dissertation (1958); and a public talk at The Wiener Library (1959).

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People

  • Liebeschütz, Hans

Subjects

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