Grossbard family: Correspondence
Extent and Medium
8 folders
Creator(s)
- German Jewish Aid Committee
Acquisition
Donated Dec 1991
Donor: Michael Gordon
Scope and Content
This collection comprises correspondence from the friends and family of Siegfried Grossbard, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who eventually became resident in Great Britain. Much of the material was used by Michael Gordon, the depositor and son of Siegfried, in his history of his father's experience of the Nazi years Plaything of Destiny [Wiener Library OSP 497]. The latter provides a full history of the family and a commentary on the correspondence. Not all of the correspondence referred to in Plaything of Destiny is held within this collection. In particular there are no letters from the Grossbard brothers whilst inmates of Dachau and Buchenwald in 1938.
System of Arrangement
The material has been arranged chronologically into two groups: correspondence and papers from friends, family and others,1149/1/1-291; correspondence from Otto Morawetz, 1149/2/1-166.
Conditions Governing Access
Open
People
- Morawetz, Otto
- Grossbard family
Subjects
- Internment
- Buchenwald (concentration camp)
- Family documents [doc]
- Kitchener Camp
- Lingfield (internment camp)
- Documents
- Aryanisation
Places
- Argentina
- Australia