Grete Sacki (Mayer): Personal papers
Extent and Medium
1 file
Biographical History
Grete Mayer was born on 24 October 1901 in Frankfurt am Main, the daughter of the Jewish businessman Willy Mayer. She graduated from the Schiller-Schule, Frankfurt, then the Handelsschule, Frankfurt with a certificate. After jobs in an old people's home and as a book-keeper in a bank she began a career in social work as a volunteer in the Jewsh community and in 1928 graduated as a social worker with a special interest in children.
She married Seefried Mayer in March 1929 and sometime between then and 1939 they came to the Great Britain where she worked as a nurse and a voluntary social worker throughout the war years. Up to at least 1956 she worked in the field of psychiatric social work. Little more is known of her life beyond the fact that her husband died in 1969.
Archival History
Provenance unknown
Acquisition
Donor: Elizabeth Sinclair (?)
System of Arrangement
The papers are arranged into 3 bundles: personal papers including certificates, testimonials etc( -/1); correspondence from relations in Israel (-/2) and correspondence re the death of her husband Seefried (-/3).
Conditions Governing Access
Open
People
- Mayer, Grete
Subjects
- Letters
- Jews
- Refugees
Places
- Frankfurt am Main