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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Correspondence with Arbeitskreis 1961

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the establishment of , and organisational and financial details of its activities. The latter refers to monthly events, mainly public talks on historical subjects or current affairs, but also film screenings or a guided tour through The Wiener Library (November 14, 1962). Beside letters several minutes of board meetings and invitation cards for events are contained.

  7. Correspondence with Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence - with AJR chairman Werner Rosenstock almost exclusively - comprises a wide variety of issues including amongst others: an AJR Information editorial on the work of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation; an obituary on Ludwig Foerder; publishing the memoirs of Gustav Schröder, captain of the MS St. Louis, in England; the visit of The Wiener Library by a group of young German unionists; and an appreciation of Leonard Montefiore in the AJR Information on occasion of his 70th birthday.

  8. Correspondence with Aufbau

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the birthdays of Rudolf Apt and Georg Salzberger, and the death of Kurt Sabatzky, all three of them Jewish-German refugees in England. The latter had worked as secretary for The Wiener Library from 1947-53, and had been involved in the institute's eyewitness testimony project.

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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.

  12. 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 ...

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Correspondence with Bloch, Julius

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on the whereabouts of the of the Jewish community in Friedberg near Frankfurt am Main. Contained are letters of several other individuals involved in the object’s tracing process. Upon his passing the acquisition of parts of Bloch’s estate is briefly discussed.

  17. Correspondence with Blank, Max

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the 75th anniversary of the mall ‘Kogge’ in Witten. Contained is an ad prospect published on this occassion.

  18. Correspondence with Brandt, Walter A.

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding an enquiry on Walter Auerbach, and especially his activities during his exile in the UK.

  19. Correspondence with Breslauer, Walter

    1. Wiener Library Archive: 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 on letter in Dutch language.

  20. Correspondence with Borkenau, Hanna

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding prosperous Jewish art collectors and patrons in (Western) Europe including short profiles of the persons in question and a CV of H. Borkenau.