Neumann and Mendel Business and Family papers

Neumann and Mendel Business and Family papers 

Neumann and Mendel Business and Family papers 

5 boxes 

This collection of family papers and business papers comprises several separate deposits, made some time after Luise Neumann's death in the 1980s. This is a good example of a collection of business papers of a former Jewish Company in Germany which was taken over as part of the Nazi aryanisation process, containing a range of records one would expect to see in a business archive as well as documents referring specifically to the persecution of the owners on the grounds of race [1023/1/39 and 1023/1/13]. The collection also contains papers which document the experiences of the family as they were forced into exile in the late 1930s, including a considerable amount of correspondence, much of it written in a mixture of German and English, an indication of the Anglicanisation of the family, particularly Luise [1023/1/38].

 

The several deposits have been arranged into those relating to the family (1023/1/1-41); those relating to the family business Neumann and Mendel (1023/2/1-17) and Ephemera and photographs (1023/3/1-3). Material has been arranged chronologically within each folder except where it was felt that disruption of the original order may destroy the historical context eg. the alphabetical filing system at 1023/2/15; or the size and format of the material precluded such an approach (1023/1/38).