Correspondence with Plaut, Dr. Max

Dr Max Plaut (1901-1974) was a German advocate, Jewish official and Holocaust survivor. He was a member of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V.) and the B’nai B’rith Lodge in Hamburg. In December 1938 he was appointed head of the city’s Jewish community, in 1943 eventually deported to the ghetto Theresienstadt. He returned to Germany in 1950.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 298.

Correspondence regarding the sending of published material, including a piece on Jewish cemeteries in Germany; the scheduling of meetings; and the terms of a potential acquisition of books from a private library. Furthermore, The Wiener Library briefly requests Plaut to author an account about his experiences in the Nazi era for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

Contained is a two letter correspondence between the Jewish community Bremen and the state attorney of Bremen regarding an antisemitic incident, a telegram by Alfred Wiener, and a thank you card by Plaut.