Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich papers Nachlass Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007)

Identifier
irn720356
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.240.1
  • RG-58.052
Dates
1 Jan 1904 - 31 Dec 2009
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

1,005 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (March 27, 1921-October 21, 2007) was a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Ehrlich fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in June 1943, using a false passport. From 1961 to 1994 he was European director of the Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith. He was an adviser to German Cardinal Augustin Bea at the Second Vatican Council in preparing "Nostra aetate", a key document on Roman Catholic-Jewish relations. He died at his home in Riehen, a suburb of Basel.

Archival History

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; Archival signature: NL Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in June 2020.

Scope and Content

Private papers of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007), a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Consists of certificates, photographs, family history, school and studies history, reports, refugee files, documents regarding reparation and inheritance, prizes and honors, articles for books and magazines, press articles, letters to the editor, radio and television articles, teaching material, and correspondence, e.g. with Leo Baeck, Peter Nathan Levinson, Gertrud Luckner, Franz Mussner, Rolf Rendtorff, Julius Schoeps, Albert Speer, Herbert Strauss; correspondence between the Christian-Jewish working group in Switzerland; correspondence B'nai B'rith, et al. with Anne Frank-Fonds, Conseil Représentatif des institutions juifs de France, International Center for Peace in the Middle East, Willy Brandt, Hertha Däubler-Gmelin, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Heinz Galinski, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Michael Mertes, Hans -Jochen Vogel, Simon Wiesenthal, Beate Winkler; correspondence in connection with activities in various bodies and commissions; and bulletins "Christian-Jewish Forum"; "The B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly"; "B'nai B'rith Bulletin"; "B'nai B'rith Journal"; "B'nai B'rith News"; bulletins from member boxes of the B'nai B'rith. Records relate mainly to diverse commitment of Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich in the context of Christian-Jewish dialogue. It reflects in almost all of his activities, as the secretary of the Christian-Jewish working group in Switzerland, as a director of the continental European district of B'nai B'rith and representative of B'nai B'rith International, or in his journalistic work and his lecturing. Of particular interest are Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich's reports on his life in National Socialist Germany, his escape and his first years as a refugee in Switzerland.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in six series: 1. Biography materials; 2. Christian-Jewish Working Group (CJA) in Switzerland; 3. B'nai B'rith; 4. Participation in committees and commissions; 5. Other activities; 6. Collection of press articles and other materials. Correspondence organized alphabetically and chronologically.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

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