Paul Tauchner document collection

Identifier
irn530866
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.7.11
  • 2001.254
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

5

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Paul Tauchner and his wife, Diana (née Horowicz), are children of parents who survived the Holocaust in Poland. He acquires Nazi-era collections at auction in order to keep such material publicly available. He lives in Munich and works as a patent and trademark attorney in chemistry and pharmacology.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paul Tauchner

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Paul and Diana Tauchner donated the Paul Tauchner document collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 and 2001. The accession formerly cataloged as 2001.254 has been incorporated into this collection.

Scope and Content

The Paul Tauchner document collection primarily documents restrictions on Rosa Block (1867‐1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard to someone interned at Theresienstadt, picture postcards depicting Adolf Hitler, and a form documenting Johanna Meisinger’s Aryan descent. Rosa Block materials include an identification card, a bulletin from the Jüdische Kultusvereinigung about restrictions on movable property of Jews, a solicitation for a mandatory contribution to the Jüdische Winterhilfe, a doctor’s bill, and correspondence documenting the Prussian State Bank’s efforts to expropriate bank shares from her and the requirement that her heirs after her death not be Jewish.

System of Arrangement

The Paul Tauchner document collection is arranged as a single series: I. Paul Tauchner document collection, approximately 1938-1946

People

Subjects

Genre

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.