Edmund Hamber papers

Identifier
WL1879
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 89264
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Jan 1939
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Edmund Hamber was born in Vienna in 1893. He and his elder brother, Philipp, worked in the Social Democratic Viennese film scene during the pre-nazi era. They were producers, distributors and owners and creators of a cinema chain. After the advent of the nazis it became increasingly difficult for Jews to work in the film industry. They were both arrested by the nazis and sent to Dachau in 1938 and thereafter to Buchenwald on 26.12.1939 where Philipp's brutal murder was witnessed by his brother and several others. Three weeks later, after Edmund had lodged an official complaint about his brother's treatment, he too was murdered on 28.11.1940. Edmund married Marie Hunatschek (born 1891) who was deported and killed at Maly Trostinec on 31.8.1942. They had three daughters who all managed to escape to Great Britain: Margaret (born 1921), Liselotte (born 1922), Gertrude (born 1927) 

Acquisition

Donated 12.1.2015

Donor: Bridgewater, Suzanne

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the letters which Edmund Hamber wrote to his children while he was incarcerated in Dachau concentration camp. In addition there are copy family photographs, copy article re the Hamber brothers and Kiba and sundry other material.

System of Arrangement

Chronological

Note(s)

  • Letter of two pages of 27 August 1939 digitised as WL14750 and WL14751

People

  • Hamber, Edmund

Subjects

  • Immigration
  • Films
  • Persecution
  • Jews
  • Buchenwald (concentration camp)

Places

  • Vienna
  • Weimar Republic [1919-1933]
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