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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Correspondence with Riegner, Kurt Julio

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on a variety of subjects including personal matters, the exchange of materials, the situation for Jews in postwar Argentina; the relations between the Nazi regime and Argentina under the rule of Juan Peron, and current affairs in Argentina and South America in general.

  2. Correspondence with Rengstorf, Karl Heinrich

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence reflecting Rengstorf's various activities as director of organisations dedicated to promote Christian-Jewish relations including regarding conferences, lectures and articles. Contained is also an appeal for assistance with the Wiener Library's Eyewitness testimony project.

  3. Correspondence with Swarsensky, Bernhard (La Semana Israelita)

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding exchange of publications; subscription to respective journals, and the publication of selected articles in La Semana Israelita.

  4. Correspondence with Hamburger, Ernest

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding an article about ‘The Nuremberg Principles and the United Nations’ Hamburger authored for The Wiener Library’s Bulletin.

  5. Correspondence with Wolfsfeld, Erich

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding information requests by The Wiener Library on certain individuals, the placement of an obituary in the Jewish refugee press after his passing, and some of Wolfsfeld’s works donated by his wife.

  6. Correspondence with Guggenheim, Karl

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the exchange of published material (mainly printed works from Chile), and a Wiener Library Bulletin article compiled from an account by Guggenheim. Contained are two letters in Spanish, and a brief poem-like draft of a scenery from Buchenwald concentration camp in November 1938.

  7. Correspondence with Prinz, Arthur

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a report on anti-Jewish activities in Berlin Prinz had dictated for the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) during a visit in The Netherlands in September 1938. Contained is some information about his emigration.

  8. Correspondence with Weltsch, Robert

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding various minor issues, including the writing of an article for The Wiener Library’s Bulletin. Contained is a leaflet on Weltsch’s 70th birthday.

  9. Correspondence with Lesser, Werner H.

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the exchange of information about the personal situation as well as some common acquaintances; the whereabouts of Lesser’s uncle; and a restitution related enquiry on a former mortgage of Lesser in Bentschen. Beside letters an undated photo card showing the Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro is contained.

  10. Correspondence with Maybaum, Ignaz

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising hand- and typewritten letters the correspondence deals with an information request about Dutch professor Kornelis Heiko Miskotte and a book he had published, the consignment of primary source material, birthday wishes, and bibliographic information on Austrian writer Karl Kraus.

  11. Correspondence with Kassel, Fritz

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding enquiries by Kassel about a) the situation of people with German nationality in England at the outbreak of the Second World War, b) the terms of obtaining a copy of an article written by a high rank Nazi official in the Gau Silesia and c) the options of tracing family items confiscated by the Nazis.

  12. Correspondence with Kirsch, Leonard

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding various subjects including personal matters, like support for Kirsch’s daughter during a stay in London or the description of a trip to Israel, as well as professional matters, like a restitution related enquiry on details of the expulsion and eviction of Jewish Poles from Nazi Germany in October 1938.

  13. Correspondence with Kisch, Guido

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Beside a visit of the Library the correspondence deals with the purchase of published material. This refers mainly to the Historia Judaica, a learned journal on Jewish History edited by Kisch.

  14. Correspondence with Loewy, Julius

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a published history of the Jewish-German student fraternity Freie Schlagende Verbindung Salia from Würzburg, of which Loewy had been a member; the Jewry of Loewy’s hometown Hofgeismar; and the contribution of an eyewitness account for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

  15. Correspondence with Walter, Hilde

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence primarily regarding two eyewitness accounts which Walter contributed to The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

  16. Correspondence with Kahn, Bernhard and Dora

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence with B. Kahn on his activities for the Hilfsverein, and expressions of condolences for D. Kahn after the passing of her husband. The latter contains a brief reflection by Alfred Wiener on when he first met B. Kahn.

  17. Correspondence with Lustig, Wilhelm (Guillermo)

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Including much personal information and therewith illustrating the Lustig’s personal friendship with Alfred Wiener as well as Eva Reichmann, the correspondence centres on the Library’s options for receiving published material and further information about Jewish life in Argentina and South America. Furthermore, it contains mutual birthday wishes on occasion of Wiener’s and Lustig’s 70. birthday.

  18. Correspondence with Schwerin, Alfred

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on various subjects including books by German historian Karl Thieme (Kirche und Synagogue) and German Anti-Nazi resistance fighter resistance Fabian von Schlabrendorff (Offiziere gegen Hitler). Contained is a 27-page report on a trip of Schwerin to Mexico and the West Indies.

  19. Correspondence with Simon, Otto

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Containing an apaprently unrelated report on situation in Palestine (1947), the correspondence centres on the exchange of materials as well as personal or family related information respectively.

  20. Correspondence with Kartell Jüdischer Verbindungen (K.J.V) in Great Britain

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence, with K.J.V secretary R. J. Friedmann exclusively, deals with various subjects including: arrangements for a lecture by Alfred Wiener about the Library at a K.J.V. (1954), the K.J.V.’s subsequent Library subscription, and a visit of the Library by K.J.V. members. Furthermore, requests for contact information, the consignment of K.J.V. material, invitations to events, and a lecture of Eva Reichmann at a K.J.V meeting (1957) are debated.