Siegfried Geyerhahn correspondence
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- Siegfried Geyerhahn
Biographical History
Siegfried Geyerhahn spent time in Dachau concentration camp for his involvement with the Freemasons. He was the "Meister des Stuhl" or Master of the Chair of the Masonic lodge Zukunft (Future) in Vienna, Austria.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of George Geyerhahn
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
George Geyerhahn donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997.
Scope and Content
The Siegfried Geyerhahn correspondence consists of postcards and letters written between June 1938 and January 1939 by Siegfried Geyerhan, originally of Vienna, Austria. Geyerhahn was imprisoned in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for his involvement with the Freemasons. The majority of the correspondence was written from Dachau, but one letter, dated January 1939, was written from Buchenwald. Also includes an empty envelope.
System of Arrangement
The Siegfried Geyerhahn corresponce is arranged in a single series.
People
- Geyerhahn, Siegfried.
- Siegfried Geyerhahn
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates' writings--Germany--Dachau.
- Freemasons--Germany.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Letters.
- Correspondence.
- Envelopes (Stationery)
- Document