Karl Loewenstein collection

Karl Loewenstein collection 

Karl Loewenstein collection 

1 folder 

This collection consists of some personal papers of Karl Loewenstein, controversial former head of the security apparatus at Theresienstadt. The papers include an unpublished account of his time in Theresienstadt; sundry related documents and correspondence from and about his time in Theresienstadt. There are apparently two copies of the report entitled Aus der Hölle Minsk in das Paradies Theresienstadt. One deposited here at the Wiener Library in 1956 via HG Adler, also former inmate of Theresienstadt, and author of the still definitive history of the ghetto. The other is deposited with the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich. The Wiener Library version is less the first chapter on Minsk (pp 1-39)

In addition there are a number of other items in the collection listed below, which are thought to have been deposited at the same time (1620/5-6). Note that these latter items were originally given the reference number PIIIh (Theres) No.589 although they were never subsumed into the Wiener Library eyewitness testimony series, to which this reference normally pertains.