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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Correspondence with Klee, Hans

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence covers various issues including among others: the lending of books from the Library; arrangements for a trip of Alfred Wiener to Switzerland; the exchange of information and materials, including the persons of Kurt Sabatzky, Erich Wolfsfeld and George Mantello; and a report about a Lutheran conference on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany. Different views of Klee and Wiener on Jewish-German relations are illustrated throughout the correspondence.

  2. Correspondence with Strauss, Eugen

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on various subjects, including a research project, aspects of the organisation of the Jewish community Augsburg in the 1930s, and also the celebration of Strauss's 80th birthday.

  3. Correspondence with Guggenheim, Siegfried

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding birthday wishes and the sending of family related material by Guggenheim. This includes several photocopies from newspapers, a photo card, statements of several individuals on Siegfried Guggenheim, and the manuscript of a public talk given by a Daniel Guggenheim in 1935.

  4. Correspondence with Zielenziger, Eric Wolfgang

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters, the correspondence centres on Zielenziger’s restitution claims related to his father, and the sending of certain materials. The latter included a diary of Lilly Zielenziger, the correspondent’s mother.

  5. Correspondence with Loewenbach, Sigmar

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding an enquiry by Loewenbach for a job or general support. Included is a detailed description of his persecution experience in Nazi Germany, the flight by ship (S.S. Astir) to Palestine and his activities there, as well as the return to postwar Germany and the difficulties Loewenbach encountered here.

  6. Correspondence with Kirschner, Bruno

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Following the (re)establishment of contact by Alfred Wiener the correspondence focuses on the recap of common friends, family members or certain events, the exchange of published material, and a restitution related enquiry on the situation of Jews in Romania in 1940/41.

  7. Correspondence with Katten, Max

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding an enquiry by the Library for the whereabouts of Dr. Leopold Lucas, a German historian and rabbi. Contained is a note by rabbi C. E. Cassel on the passing of Katten.

  8. Correspondence with Lesser, Jonas

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence centres on numerous articles and reviews Lesser authored mainly for The Wiener Library’s Bulletin, but also for other magazines. This includes among others a piece about the Library for The Contemporary Review (1959) as well as a Bulletin article about Club 43, a loose association of left and liberal (Jewish-)German exiles in London (1963).

  9. Correspondence with Heidenfeld, Wolfgang

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents Heidenfeld’s extensive activities as freelance writer for The Wiener Library and its Bulletin, authoring numerous pieces – articles, reviews, summaries and translations – on various topics. Furthermore, a discussion of current affairs and the exchange of personal information with C. C. Aronsfeld is part of the correspondence.

  10. Correspondence with Seckbach, Markus

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the offer of documents and books including: a list of Jews deported from Halberstadt, a family tree of the Seckbach family, a 19th century handwritten list of births and deaths of the Jewish community Halberstadt.

  11. Correspondence with Simon, Walter Veit

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Beside the exchange of personal information and publications, the correspondence deals with an enquiry on past political affiliations of Chilean singer Rosita Serrano, anti-Semitic publications in Chile, and the political situation in Chile.

  12. Correspondence with Zeitlin, Leon

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding various issues including birthday wishes, reviews Zeitlin had authored for the Library’s Bulletin, suggestions for research projects, and letters of condolence regarding his late wife.

  13. Correspondence with Esso, Izaak and Louise van

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on the employment of Louise van Esso at The Wiener Library to compile eyewitness accounts from The Netherlands for the institute's eyewitness testimony project. Further efforts concern attempts to purchase copies of survivor reports on SS-physician Carl Clauberg possessed by a Dutch individual.

  14. Correspondence with Sternfeld, Wilhelm

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence mainly regarding mutual invitations, exchange of materials, birthday wishes and also on the subject of German exile literature.

  15. Correspondence with Breslauer, Walter

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence concerns various administrative, financial, and mostly historical aspects, i.e. those related to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Particular reference deserves the discussion of a draft of a new constitution for The Wiener Library (1948-49). Beside several handwritten letters by Breslauer the correspondence contains one letter in Dutch language.

  16. Correspondence with Eschelbacher, Max

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on Eschelbacher gathering and providing information on numerous Library enquiries on individuals as well as events. Furthermore, light is thrown on his involvement in the Library’s eyewitness testimony project including the contribution of an own account on his experiences in Düsseldorf during the November Pogrom 1938.

  17. Correspondence with Berent, Ernst

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence sheds light on Berent’s bonds with his German home. The letters centre on source material on the Jewry of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), and a critical discussion of an anti-German article published in the Library’s Bulletin. Contained are birthday wishes as well as a letter of condolence on Berent’s passing.

  18. Correspondence with Buxton, Dorothy Francis

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The hand- and typewritten letters concern Buxton’s offer to provide The Wiener Library with selected books and material from her private collection. She further claimed to have met and briefly interviewed Hermann Göring in Germany on March 26, 1935. Beside letters, the correspondence contains a memo about a meeting with Buxton as well as a clipping of her obituary published in The Times.

  19. Janina Szereszewska collection

    This collection contains identity documents, correspondence, affidavits and restitution claim material

  20. Marx family documents

    This collection of papers consists of the immigration documentation of a German Jewish family who emigrated to Great Britain in the 1930s. The collection consists of paperwork generated by the British and American immigration authorities and documentation brought from Germany by the Marx family members.