Ernst Heumann collection
Extent and Medium
folders
5
Creator(s)
- Ernst Heumann
Biographical History
Ernst Heumann (b. 1900, Gau Odenheim, Germany, d. 1982, United States) immigrated to the United States in 1924. He helped found the New World Club, a social organization, in the 1920s and served as its third president. The New World Club was concerned with publishing and providing aid to German-Jewish immigrants fleeing Germany. The New World Club published "Aufbau" and "International Science."
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Ernst Heumann collected the papers of the New World Club while he was managing the finances of the organization. Elaine Heumann Gurian, Ernst Heumann's daughter, Elaine H. Gurian, donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996.
Scope and Content
Contains correspondence and financial reports concerning the publication of Aufbau by the New World Club (also known as the German-Jewish Club), an organization of German Jewish emigrants in New York. Also included are files concerning Aufbau advertising manager, Hans Schleger, and a May 1941 issue of International Science, a publication of the New World Club.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement of file units is thematic. Arrangement of documents within the file units is chronological.
People
- Heumann, Ernst, 1900-1982.
Subjects
- Jews, German--United States--Newspapers.
Genre
- Document