Horst Biesold collection

Horst Biesold collection 

Horst Biesold collection 

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The collection includes original and photocopies of documents relating to Bertholdt Jacobs and Margarete Crohn who lived in Berlin, Germany and fled to Shanghai, China and to Otto Gantz and his family including correspondence, certificates, and court proceedings. The collection also includes photocopies and originals of documents and copyprints of photographs pertaining to the treatment of deaf children during the Holocaust. Documents include correspondence between Nazi officials, lists of names, documentation of laws, memorandums, forms, statistics, and descriptions of experiments. The copyprints in the collection are of the negatives also included in the collection. Negatives are kept in cold storage and require additional time before they can be served for researchers. 

The collection is arranged as a single series: Folder 1: Family documents, circa 1921-1988 Folders 2-3: Treatment of deaf children, circa 1934-1941 Folders 4-5 and OS 1: Photographs, circa 1935-1942