Dr Fritz Friedländer (1901-1980) was an Australian journalist and publisher of Jewish-German origin. He had been a member of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V) since the early 1920s. After being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom 1938 Friedländer emigrated to Shanghai and later to Australia. See Walk, J., <a href"http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1957">Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 103.
For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the <a href"https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/7105">Eyewitness Testimony Collection.
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Aside from the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V) the correspondence documents Friedländer’s long-term involvement in The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. As commissioned interviewer he gathered several accounts from Holocaust survivors who had settled in Australia after the war. The letters throw light on methodological and financial details, the progress made by Friedländer, and eventually the project’s termination in the early 1960s. The correspondence comprises handwritten and typewritten letters.
Correspondence with Friedländer, Fritz