Leo GompertzCollection 1896-1998 bulk 1963-1967

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Leo GompertzCollection 1896-1998 bulk 1963-1967

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The Leo GompertzCollection primarily documents Leo Gompertz's search for information on Haus Berta,a recreation and training institution for Jewish youth during the late 1930s. Thecollection also includes a number of photographs of Haus Berta, its staff andresidents, as well as some other documents on it and a few personal papers of LeoGompertz.

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Haus Berta

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Gompertz, Leo

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Leo Gompertz was born in Krefeld on January 15, 1887, the son of Albert Gompertz and Sophie Rubens. He lived in Gelsenkirchen, where he owned a fur store. He was also a philanthropist, Jewish community leader, and director of Haus Berta, a vacation camp and youth training and recreation center sponsored by the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten in Schermbeck, Germany. Gompertz emigrated to the United States via the Netherlands in 1939. In New York City he reestablished himself in the fur industr...

Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten

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