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Max Katten (1892 -1957) was a liberal German rabbi from Bamberg. During the November pogrom he was arrested and interned in Dachau concentration camp. Upon his release he and his family emigrated to London in 1939. Later he became a lecturer at the Leo Baeck Institute. See Zajdband, A., <a href"https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/RecordView/Index/9126">German Rabbis in British Exile. From ‘Heimat’ to Unknown, Berlin/ Boston, de Gruyter, 2016.
Correspondence regarding an enquiry by the Library for the whereabouts of Dr. Leopold Lucas, a German historian and rabbi. Contained is a note by rabbi C. E. Cassel on the passing of Katten.
Correspondence with Katten, Max