Sonia WachsteinCollection 1915-1996 bulk 1939-1962

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Sonia WachsteinCollection 1915-1996 bulk 1939-1962

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This collectiondocuments Sonia Wachstein's personal life and professional work. It includespersonal documents, correspondence, diaries, and photographs concerning her personalaffairs as well as her education and professional life as a socialworker.

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Lemke, Meinhardt, 1904-1962

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Mainhardt Lemke was born in 1904 in Fordon (today in Poland). He studied in Breslau (now Wrocŧaw, Poland) and Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and worked for a short time as a journalist writing poems and short stories. The well-known novelist Ernst Wiechert supported his lyrical talent. Until 1933 Lemke worked in the University of Breslau's library where he started studying Jewish history and Judaic studies. In 1939 Meinhardt Lemke was arrested and brought to Dachau concentration camp. He i...

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Wachstein, Sonia, 1907-2001

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Sonia (Sophie) Wachstein was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1907. Her father, Bernhard Wachstein (1868-1935), was a famous historian, bibliographer, and genealogist. He wrote and published about the Vienna Jewish community. He was also director of the library of the Kultusgemeinde in Vienna. Sonia Wachstein studied and later taught at the Chajes Gymnasium in Vienna. She immigrated to London, England, in 1939, where she taught English to German Jewish refugees. After the end...