Correspondence with Buckeridge & Braune
Extent and Medium
28 letters
Biographical History
Buckeridge & Braune, Solicitors was a London-based law firm that employed several Jewish-German lawyers who had fled their home country after the Nazi seizure of power.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, with refugees Rudolf Graupner and Hans Jacobi almost exclusively, regarding restitution related information requests, and the lending of certain materials from the Library. The enquiries include among others former camps Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Sobibor. Moreover, Jacobi’s own restitution claim in West Germany, his Library membership and his authorship of a book review, published in the Library’s Bulletin, are mentioned.
Conditions Governing Access
open
People
- Graupner, Rudolf
- Jacobi, Hans
Corporate Bodies
- Buckeridge & Braune
Subjects
- Concentration camps
- Restitution
- Refugees