Fritz Friedlaender Collection 1933-1972

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Fritz Friedlaender Collection 1933-1972

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The collection mainly contains articles, notes, manuscripts and other writingsby Fritz Friedlaender on various topics as well as articles from other authors on related topics. There are articles on Gabriel Riesser, FriedrichMeinecke, Moritz Heimann, Heinrich Heine, Stefan Zweig, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Ulrich Sanders and others. The collection also contains letters toFriedlaender from Leo Baeck, Ismar Elbogen, and Max Wiener (1935-1972), and misc. personal documents.

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Born in Berlin in 1901 to a drug store owner, Fritz Friedlaender was a Social Democratic journalist, teacher and activist of the Centralverein. He contributed to Der Morgen and to the Philo-Lexikon and was an editor of the Zeitschrift fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland . From 1933 to 1938 he was a teacher at Jewish schools in Berlin. After his arrest in Sachsenhausen concentration camp he emigrated to Shanghai in 1939 and to Australia in 1946. He died there in 1980. From th...

Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956

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20th century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism. On 27 Jan. 1943, he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. He became the "honorary head" of the Council of Elders (Judenrat) in Theresienstadt. As such, he was protected from transports and with his protection list, could also save his relatives from transports, among others his grand-niece Ruth (b. 1925). Moreover, Baeck became "prominent", which meant that he had better accommodation, better ...