Correspondence with Brueckheimer, Lassar

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  • Reference
      GB 1556 3000/9/1/219
  • Dates of Creation
      29/04/1963 - 24/12/1963
  • Language of Material
      German English
  • Physical Description
      26 letters

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding the publication of a typescript on the destruction of Jewish communities in Germany during the November Pogrom 1938, authored by late Simon Brückheimer. Beside L. Brueckheimer, the bundle of papers contains several other correspondents involved in this process including representatives of two small publishing houses. Following a microfilm copy of the Brückheimer material The Wiener Library had produced for Yad Vashem, copy right issues are addressed.

Administrative / Biographical History

Lassar Brueckheimer was the son of Simon Brückheimer (1889–1950), a Jewish school teacher and historian of the Jewry in the Franconia region. After S. Brückheimer had been interned in Buchenwald concentration camp during the November Pogrom, the family had emigrated to England in 1939.

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