Paul Tauchner document collection
Extent and Medium
folders
5
Creator(s)
- Paul Tauchner
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
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Paul Tauchner
- Frank, Karl Hermann, 1898-1946.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Berlin (Germany)
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Race--Research--Germany.
- Jewish property--Germany--Berlin.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.