gb-003348-wl3000 9 1-910
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related material: 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. See also the <a href"https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/7102"> Karl Loewenstein Collection.
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has beginning date: 1956-04-24
has end date: 1960-11-15
has or had holder: gb-003348
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 686
has or had subject: 803
has or had subject: 449
has record set type: Collection
history: Dr Karl Loesten (born Loewenstein; 1887-1976) was a Jewish born German banker and Holocaust survivor. The upper class World War I veteran had converted to Protestantism in 1919. He was deported to the Minsk Ghetto in 1941, and soon transferred to Theresienstadt (Terezin) where he became chief of the inmate’s ghetto police. After the liberation he was charged by Soviet and Czech authorities, but was exonerated eventually. He moved to England and Australia subsequently, and finally settled in West Berlin. See Lampert, T., <a href"https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/5156">One Life, London, Harcourt, 2004.
identifier: WL3000/9/1/910
is or was included in: gb-003348-wl3000 9 1
record resource extent: 37 letters
scope and content: The correspondence centres on eyewitness accounts Loesten-Loewenstein had authored for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project; the consignment of at least four other reports for this collection (by Anna Barker; Dietrich Scheid; Arthur Schwarz; Erich Springer); and a debate of Paul Eppstein and his role as head of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) in Theresienstadt. Contained are brief correspondences with E. G. Loewenthal and the editorial office of the German language magazine Jüdische Sozialarbeit (on the role of Paul Eppstein in Theresienstadt), the West Berlin senator for adult education (on the publication of Loesten’s reports), and with H. G. Adler (on annotations to a typescript Adler’s), with whom Loesten was befriended.
title: Correspondence with Loesten (Loewenstein), Karl