Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich papers Nachlass Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007)
Extent and Medium
1,005 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Ernst L. Ehrlich
Biographical History
Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (March 27, 1921-October 21, 2007) was a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Ehrlich fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in June 1943, using a false passport. From 1961 to 1994 he was European director of the Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith. He was an adviser to German Cardinal Augustin Bea at the Second Vatican Council in preparing "Nostra aetate", a key document on Roman Catholic-Jewish relations. He died at his home in Riehen, a suburb of Basel.
Archival History
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; Archival signature: NL Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in June 2020.
Scope and Content
Private papers of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007), a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Consists of certificates, photographs, family history, school and studies history, reports, refugee files, documents regarding reparation and inheritance, prizes and honors, articles for books and magazines, press articles, letters to the editor, radio and television articles, teaching material, and correspondence, e.g. with Leo Baeck, Peter Nathan Levinson, Gertrud Luckner, Franz Mussner, Rolf Rendtorff, Julius Schoeps, Albert Speer, Herbert Strauss; correspondence between the Christian-Jewish working group in Switzerland; correspondence B'nai B'rith, et al. with Anne Frank-Fonds, Conseil Représentatif des institutions juifs de France, International Center for Peace in the Middle East, Willy Brandt, Hertha Däubler-Gmelin, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Heinz Galinski, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Michael Mertes, Hans -Jochen Vogel, Simon Wiesenthal, Beate Winkler; correspondence in connection with activities in various bodies and commissions; and bulletins "Christian-Jewish Forum"; "The B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly"; "B'nai B'rith Bulletin"; "B'nai B'rith Journal"; "B'nai B'rith News"; bulletins from member boxes of the B'nai B'rith. Records relate mainly to diverse commitment of Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich in the context of Christian-Jewish dialogue. It reflects in almost all of his activities, as the secretary of the Christian-Jewish working group in Switzerland, as a director of the continental European district of B'nai B'rith and representative of B'nai B'rith International, or in his journalistic work and his lecturing. Of particular interest are Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich's reports on his life in National Socialist Germany, his escape and his first years as a refugee in Switzerland.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in six series: 1. Biography materials; 2. Christian-Jewish Working Group (CJA) in Switzerland; 3. B'nai B'rith; 4. Participation in committees and commissions; 5. Other activities; 6. Collection of press articles and other materials. Correspondence organized alphabetically and chronologically.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung
People
- Brandt, Willy, 1913-
- Ehrlich, Ernst Ludwig, 1921-2007.
- Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956.
- Kolleg, Abraham Geiger.
- Winkler, Beate, 1949-
- Luckner, Gertrude.
- Ehrlich, Eva.
- Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw.
- Lustiger, Jean-Marie, 1926-2007.
- Dohnanyi, Klaus von, 1928-
- Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
- Schoeps, Julius H. (Julius Hans), 1942-
- Amédée, Grab.
- Wiesenthal, Simon.
- Rendtorff, Rolf, 1925-2014.
- Däubler-Gmelin, Hertha.
- Mertes, Michael.
- Mussner, Franz.
- Feigel, Sigi.
- Strauss, Herbert, 1948-
- Levinson, Peter Nathan.
- Vogel, Hans-Jochen, 1926-2020.
- Galinski, Heinz.
- Merkel, Angela.
- Kirchschläger, Rudolf, 1915-
- Battel, Franco.
Corporate Bodies
- Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)
- B'nai B'rith
- Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
Subjects
- Germany
- France
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
- Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- Human rights advocacy
- Holocaust survivors--Germany.
- Basel (Switzerland)
- Jews--Germany--History--1945-1990.
- Jewish refugees--Switzerland--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Berlin.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity--1945.
- Jews--Germany--History.
- Religious communities.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism--1945.
- Zurich (Switzerland)
- Switzerland--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jewish committees (ushmm)
- Jewish philosophers--Germany--Biography.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Bulletins.
- Protocols.
- Articles.
- Postcards.
- Photographs.
- Reports.