Arthur Lehmann Correspondence undated, 1926-1947 bulk 1944-1947

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Arthur Lehmann Correspondence undated, 1926-1947 bulk 1944-1947

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This collection primarily consists of Arthur Lehmann's letters to Fanny Geck, written while he was in the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter (1944-1945) and in Niagara Falls, NY (1946-1947). It also contains a small amount of other correspondence, and some of Arthur Lehmann's writings.

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Geck, Fanny

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The architect and author Abraham Arthur Lehmann (1877-1948) was born in Moenchen-Gladbach, Germany. He married Anna Franziska Machold (died 1932), and together they had three children, Ruth Karl (1910-1989), Lisa Stuckmann (1913-1993), and Richard Lehmann (1915-2011). For most of his career, Lehmann was an independent architect in Mannheim. He also wrote theater reviews for the Mannheim paper Volksstimme and other newspapers in south-western Germany. In August 1939, Lehm...

Lehmann, Abraham Arthur

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Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter

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Between August 1944 and January 1946, close to one thousand refugees from war torn Europe were placed in a temporary internment camp at Fort Ontario (Oswego, N.Y.) to await the outcome of the Second World War. The majority of these refugees were Jewish and had recently been liberated from the atrocities of Naziism in Central Europe. From the description of War Refugees of Fort Ontario papers, 1944-1945. (SUNY Oswego). WorldCat record id: 30560909 ...