Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944-1945.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944-1945.

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3 items mainly concern Janowitz's request for a message from Franz Werfel which could be read at a benefit concert being held in New York City for the assistance of Jewish refugees from the Nazi regime residing in Spain and Turkey; Werfel supplied a text which was read by the actor Oscar Karlweis. Janowitz also reports on his current life. The last item is a condolence letter to Alma Mahler upon the death of Werfel.

4 items (4 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America

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European Friends of HIAS.

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Janowitz, Hans.

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Hans Janowitz (1890-1954) was a friend of Franz Werfel's since their school days in Prague; he was the older brother of the poet Franz Janowitz (also a friend of Werfel's; 1892-1917) who was killed in World War I. Hans Janowitz was a prose and screenplay writer (co-writer with Carl Mayer of the script for "Das Cabinet des Doktor Caligari"); he emigrated to the U.S. in 1939. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Friends of HIAS; the latter organization, founded in 1943 as par...