Fritz and Katharina Flesch collection

Identifier
irn504177
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0069
  • RG-10.102
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504177

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Sam Gonzales sent the collected materials to the USHMMA in May 1989.

Scope and Content

Fritz Flesch sent the 1939 letter to the L.M. Bickett Company of Elkhhorn, Wisconsin, seeking employment in the United States. It describes his and his family's plight as a Jew in post-Anschluss Vienna. Also includes a letter and curriculum vitae from his wife, Katharina, who was also seeking employment, and who at that time had immigrated to Britain, and was working as a house maid near London. The L.M. Bickett Company response reveals that he was not offered a job by this firm. The Fleschs' fates are unknown.

People

  • Flesch, Fritz.
  • Flesch, Katharina.

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
  • Jews--Austria.
  • Jews, Austrian--England.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Discrimination in employment.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria.

Genre

  • Document
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