Correspondence with Lask, Gustav
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Gustav Lask (1876-1961) was a Jewish-German Businessman and World War I veteran. Upon being shot and severely wounded during the November Pogrom in 1938 he had emigrated to England where he campaigned for the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR). See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 216.
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Correspondence with Lask, Gustav
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Correspondence regarding the consignment of an excerpt from Lasks’ prewar diaries to The Wiener Library. Concerning his experiences of the November Pogrom 1938 this excerpt was later merged into the Library’s eyewitness testimony collection.
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The excerpt from his diary supplemented an earlier account by Lasker on the same subject. This early account is part of The Wiener Library’s collection of eyewitness reports regarding the November Pogrom and can be accessed here.