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Ludwig Lazarus (1900-1970) was a Jewish-German independent scholar, antiquarian, and Anti-Nazi resistance fighter. The member of a leftwing resistance group had been arrested in 1937 and imprisoned in the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald subsequently. Upon his release he left for Shanghai where he was interned in the Jewish Ghetto from 1943-1945. In 1949 Lazarus returned to Germany. He campaigned for survivor organisations and worked as freelance writer. See Schulze, P., ‘Lazarus, Ludwig‘, in: Böttcher, D. et.al. (eds.), Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart, Hannover, Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002, p. 226.
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Aside from the exchange of rare published material the correspondence centres on support of Lazarus’ research in the field of Jewish history, covering various regional (northwest Germany) as well as biographical studies. Other subjects in this correspondence include among others: a note by Alfred Wiener for the Central Council of German Jews on the person of Ludwig Lazarus (1957); an enquiry by Eva Reichman to Lazarus to write down his persecution experiences for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1957); Lazarus’ involvement in a conference on Jewish history in the Weimar Republic and the participation of Wiener Library staff members in it (1958); an enquiry by Lazarus for audiovisual material about Bergen-Belsen concentration camp produced by the Royal Army; the provision of the Library with 21 photos taken during the November Pogrom in Magdeburg (1960-1961).
Correspondence with Lazarus, Ludwig