Gabriele Weil collection

Several members of the Weil family immigrated to England just before the outbreak of the Second World War: Kurt Weil, his wife Edith and daughter Gabriele, Edith’s brother-in-law Oswald Wolff and Oswald’s son Heinz. The family was also linked to the Saalfelds, Rothschilds and Herzfelds.

Some family members remained in Germany, while others immigrated elsewhere. Kurt Weil’s sister Dr Else Weil- who was the first wife of author Kurt Tucholsky- went to France, but was ultimately interned and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. This collection of family papers, including correspondence between different branches of the family and personal records, was donated by Heinz Wolff’s son Laurence after the death of Gabriele Weil [1930-2019].

 

Gabriele Weil collection 

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This collection includes family papers of the Weil family and their relatives, such as birth, death and marriage certificates, papers detailing Kurt Weil and his family’s attempts to emigrate from Germany, family trees, family photographs, and medals from the First World War. It also includes extensive family correspondence: between different branches of the family after they immigrated, between Kurt and his sister Dr Else Weil, and between Kurt and his family while he was interned in Onchan Camp. There is also documentation of Dr Else Weil’s life, and later correspondence between Gabriele Weil and the Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum regarding an exhibition about Else. 

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