Grubel, Fred

Fred Grubel was born as Fritz Grübel in Leipzig in 1908. There he attended school and university, gaining a Doctorate in Law in 1930. He worked in law offices until he was prohibited to do so in 1933 because he was Jewish; he then took a position as leader of the Leipzig Jewish community. Grubel married Lisa née Cohen. In 1938, Grubel applied for immigration visas for him and his family to move to the United States. Whilst waiting for these applications to be processed, he was arrested and interned for five weeks in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He immigrated with his wife and infant son to England in 1939, before making his way to the United States in 1940. He worked in the Jewish community and became executive director of the Leo Baeck Institute in 1970, where he remained working until 1997. Grubel died in New York in 1998.

From the guide to the Fred Grubel Collection, 1883-1999, bulk 1920-1997, (Leo Baeck Institute)

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