Henry Bund collection

Identifier
irn44153
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.361.1
  • 2022.87
Dates
1 Jan 1912 - 31 Dec 2005
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

box

oversize folder

1

1

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.

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.