Zappert family: papers

Zappert family: papers 

Zappert family: papers 

1 box 

This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment under the Nazi regime in 1938. His son Karl and his family also escaped further persecution by going to England via Denmark and Brazil. Wolf Zappert's papers include title deeds and other papers relating to the purchase and sale of properties, last wills and testaments, registration records and marriage contracts. Some of the documents have been translated and summarised. German Julius Zappert's papers include qualifications and certificates, work related correspondence, last will of his mother Marie Zappert, marriage certificate, certificate of family origin ('Heimatschein') and CVs. Includes audio interview with the donor in which she describes how she left Austria with her family in 1938; spent a year in hiding in rural Denmark; spent 2 years in Great Britain; emigrated to Brazil where they lived until she completed her teacher training; moved back to London; spent the remainder of her working life at the BBC World Service; visited Austria again for the first time in 1955; discovered this archive of documents which had been entrusted to a friend of the family by an aunt who subsequently committed suicide.