Correspondence with Reichmann, Eva

Dr Eva Gabriele Reichmann (neé Jungmann; 1897-1998) was a British historian and sociologist of Jewish-German descent. Working for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens since the 1920s she and her family emigrated to England after her husband had been interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom 1938. As long-term research director of The Wiener Library Reichmann made regarded contributions to the evolving field of Holocaust studies in the post war era. At the same time she was not only strongly committed to the fight of Antisemitism, but also to Jewish-German reconciliation. Among other honors she was presented with the West German Order of the Merit for this.

See Röder, W. and H. Strauss (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, vol. 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, öffentliches Leben, Munich, Saur, 1980, p. 592.

 

Correspondence with Reichmann, Eva 

272 items 

Containing cards, telegrams, drafts of texts, internal WL notes and trip reports the correspondence documents mainly the work related communication of Reichmann with Wiener Library staff members. The various subjects covered include among others: Some current affairs in West Germany like restitution related issues and reports on a meeting of the Neo Nazi party Sozialistische Reichspartei or the Evangelic Church Assembly; lectures at the Berlin Jewish community or at the German Cultural Institut; issues related with The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project; certain individuals like Inge Deutschkron, Rabbi Ignaz Maybaum, Hans Jocahim Schoeps, Veit Harlan, Helene Freud; former German-Jewish organisations (Kartell Conventus, Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens) and postwar Libraries and Archives (International Tracing Service, Berlin Document Center). 

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