Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- Friedrich W. Schilling
Biographical History
Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (1902-1939) was born on February 12, 1902 near Leipzig, Germany to Karl Schilling (1874-1958) and Luise Schilling (née Augustin, 1879-1953). He was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he died on November 4, 1939 of supposedly natural causes.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Anders
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Peter Anders donated the Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. Peter Anders is the great-nephew of Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling.
Scope and Content
The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, who was born in 1902 near Leipzig, Germany, and was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Schilling was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, where he died in November 1939, supposedly of natural causes. Copies include pre-war Schilling family information, copies of letters Schilling wrote from Sachsenhausen, and post-war material memorializing his life and resistance work. Collection compiled and biography written by Schilling's nephew, Volker Anders, in 2007, and translated by his great-nephew, Peter Anders.
People
- Schilling, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1902-1939.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Germany.
- Anti-Nazi movement.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Photographs.