Henry Bund collection
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Barbara Bund
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Barbara Bund donated the Henry Bund collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of documents, passports, correspondence, newspaper articles regarding the life of Dr. Heinrich Bund (later Henry Bund), originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes information about his education in Austria, emigration to the United States in 1938, pre-war, wartime, and post-war employment, and his extensive efforts to gain ownership and restitution for family property in Poland and in Vienna. Also includes information about his mother, Dorothea Bund (later Bond) and brother, Eduard Bund (later Edward Bond) both of whom also emigrated to the United States in 1938. Also includes an English-language translation of Heinrich Bund's 1938 doctoral thesis, "Die Kapitalanlangegesellschaft" [The Capital Investment Company] along with an explanation of the contents, which argued against Nazi economic policy.
People
- Bund, Barbara.
- Bund, Jeannette.
- Bund, Dorothea.
- Bund, Eduard.
- Bund, Henry.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Austria.
- Jews, Austrian.
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Personal narratives.
- Passports.
- Restitution paperwork.
- Identification documents.
- Newspaper clippings.
- Naturalization records.
- Correspondence.