Correspondence with Luckner, Gertrud - Deutscher Caritasverband (Verfolgtenfürsorge)

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/927
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110661
Dates
17 May 1952 - 14 May 1961
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Deutscher Caritasverband

Biographical History

Dr Gertrud Luckner (1900-1995) was an English born German social worker and Christian anti-Nazi resistance fighter. Working for the Catholic welfare organisation Caritasverband she provided Jews with material support and helped them to escape German territory. Arrested in 1943 she was imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp till the end of the Second World War. Invited by Leo Baeck, Luckner was among the first Germans who visited the newly founded state Israel in 1951. In 1966 Yad Vashem honoured her as 'Righteous among the Nations'.

See Gutman, I. (ed.), The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations: rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Europe (Part 1) and other countries, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2007, pp. 121-22.

Scope and Content

Containing two cards and documenting the close association of Luckner and The Wiener Library, the correspondence centres on various subjects including: The Library’s support for the establishment of chairs for Jewish history and/ or culture at West German universities; the Catholic view on Israel in the light of Arab-Israeli conflict; options to improve the dissemination of the Anne Frank Diary in German schools and libraries; a translation of Gerald Reitlinger’s pioneer study The Final Solution into German; a research related request by the Library for archival material on the November Pogrom 1938; a PR event related to the dismissal of Otto Küster, the restitution commissioner of Baden-Württemberg. Furthermore, Alfred Wiener contributed a public statement of appreciation for Luckner’s 60th birthday.

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People

  • Reitlinger, Gerald
  • Luckner, Gertrud
  • Küster, Otto

Subjects

  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  • Righteous Among the Nations
  • Judeo-Christian relations
  • German-Jewish dialogue
  • Christians
  • Catholics

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
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