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  1. Correspondence with Buys-Plaut, Edith

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a restitution related request to Alfred Wiener for a sworn statement about Buys-Plaut’s employment at the (C.V.). Contained is further correspondence with Max Markreich, former chairman of the Jewish community Bremen, whom she had contacted too. Besides, the options for publishing a study of Markreich’s on the Jewish community Bremen is discussed.

  2. Correspondence with Cahn, Walter

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a meeting during an upcoming trip of Alfred Wiener to the Netherlands in July 1955.

  3. Correspondence with Caley, T.

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Thank you note to T. Caley for sending a report on her persecution during National Socialism to the Wiener Library.

  4. Correspondence with Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischer Glaubens (C.V.)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on two major subjects. One concerns The Wiener Library’s claim for the recently detected library of the C.V. (1947-1952) and includes background information on the library’s confiscation by the Nazis, its rediscovery on Czechoslovakian soil after the Second World War, and individuals and body’s involved in the process of negotiating its future ownership. Besides, a meeting of former members in London on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the C.V. is arranged. Triggered by a research enquiry on anti-Nazi resistance in Berlin from 1933-45, a second major subject co...

  5. Correspondence with Cohen, David

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Containing numerous handwritten letters by Cohen and covering professional as well as personal matters the correspondence documents the long-term and amicable association between correspondents. It centres on various Library related issues including: a restitution related enquiry on the salary of C.C. Aronsfeld at the JCIO (1954); a trip of Alfred Wiener to Belgium and The Netherlands to detect or compile eyewitness accounts for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1955); or a German language paper by Cohen on the history of the JCIO (1959). Particular reference is made to archival m...

  6. Correspondence with Cohn, Ernst Joseph

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents the long-term and professional relation between the correspondents. It centres on the exchange of information material, work and restitution related enquiries on events or individuals related to the Nazi era, the discussion of current affairs, especially on politics and antisemitism in West Germany, and the publication of several articles by E. J. Cohn in the Library’s Bulletin. Beside letters, the correspondence contains the transcript of a newspaper article as well the transcript of a speech given by German politician Franz Böhm on a radio show. Both concern t...

  7. Correspondence with Cohn, George

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding numerous restitution related information requests which concerned: the ghetto in Riga; the emigration of Jewish-German refugees to Turkey 1933-1936; the (NSBO); fatigue duty for Jews in Hungary; deportations from Berlin; the ghetto in Chernivtsi; internment camps in Italy; the ghetto in Belzyce; special terms on gold coins in Austria; a Jewish asylum in Breslau; a hospital for children in Prague; the legal situation in Danzig after the German occupation; a case of in Frankfurt am Main; the situation of married couples in Theresienstadt; and antisemitic incidents in ...

  8. Correspondence with Council for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Jews from Germany

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents the everyday business between The Wiener Library and the London based Council including birthday wishes, the lending of books, the purchase of images, and primarily the exchange of published and unpublished material. Beside letters it contains á copy of the Council’s internal newsletters and a printed, not dated image of Sigmund Freud.

  9. Correspondence with Deutscher Gewerkschaftesbund (DGB)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding bibliographic details, information material, the scheduling of meetings, and talks Wiener Library staff members gave for the DGB. Among the correspondents is DGB chairman Ludwig Rosenberg, Jewish refugee in London during National Socialism and user of The Wiener Library at this time.

  10. Correspondence with Dienemann, Alfred

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    One handwritten and one typewritten letter about a potential remembrance ceremony for the recently passed away Leo Löwenstein.

  11. Correspondence with Abrahamsohn, Arthur

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on an information request by Abrahamson on the to substaniate his restitution claims heard in Cologne. Further letters pertain to the consignment of books and documents to the Library, birthday wishes, and Abrahamson’s contribution to The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

  12. Correspondence with Ehrlich, Toni

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding certain material of historic relevance including the unpublished memoirs of her mother’s youth.

  13. Correspondence with Eisemann, Heinrich

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence about Eisemann’s advice for the Wiener Library regarding the receipt or purchase of Judaica. This includes among others a collection of items and papers related to the Mendelssohn family. Contained is also an enquiry by Eisemann for background information on an undated typescript of an Albert Einstein speech, which he had recently acquired.

  14. Correspondence with Eschelbacher, Max

    1. Wiener Library Archive: 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.

  15. Correspondence with Adler, Jakob

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a restitution related information request by Adler on the Nazi Boycott of Jewish businesses from April 1, 1933. Contained is a brief personal account of this event.

  16. Correspondence with Ainsztein, Reuben

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents Ainsztein’s long-term freelance work for The Wiener Library, primarily by contributing numerous pieces - articles, reviews, summaries - to its Bulletin. Moreover, work related fees are subject of some letters.

  17. Correspondence with Alexander, Kurt

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on a request to Alfred Wiener for a reference or introduction letter, with which Alexander hoped to boost his chances for a job in New York. Other addressed issues are: his salary at the Jewish Central Information Office or The Wiener Library respectively, the hiring of a third person at the United Restitution Organization, and a condolence note to his widow following his sudden passing. Contained is a not dated résumé of Alexander’s as well as a letter to a third person named Lola Alexander.

  18. Correspondence regarding Dokumentenwerk - with Brügel, Johann Wolfgang

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising primarily notes and memos the correspondence centres on meetings with The Wiener Library’s project researcher Francis L. Carsten as well as a meeting with IfZ project researcher Hans Mommsen and a review of his work.

  19. Correspondence with American Jewish Kartell-Convent (KC) Fraternity Inc.

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a meeting of K.C. members in Chicago, an article on the Jewish community in Bentschen (now Zbąszyń, Poland) Alfred Wiener contributed to a K.C. jubilee publication, and birthday notes for Frederick S. Aron, Bruno Weil, and the late Ludwig Holländer. Contained is an issue of the American Jewish K.C. Fraternity Bulletin including a brief article by Wiener on Bruno Weil.

  20. Correspondence with Anglo-German Educational Reconstruction (G.E.R.)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence concerning the dissolution of G. E. R. and the options of providing The Wiener Library with parts of the remaining archival material.