Henry H. Barschall papers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Henry H. Barschall (1915-1997) was born Heinrich Hermann Barschall in Berlin to patent attorney Hermann Barschall (1879-1966) and Elise Meyer Barschall (1888-1966). Although he and his father were both members of the Evangelical Church in Germany and his mother was raised in the Catholic Church in Austria, they were considered Jewish under Nazi racial laws. Henry immigrated to the United States in 1937 and became an American citizen in 1943. He studied nuclear physics and worked at the University of Kansas, the Manhattan Project, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987. 

Henry H. Barschall papers 

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The Henry H. Barschall papers consist of Henry Barschall's 1934-1936 Friedrich Wilhelm University grade book whose yellow stripe and notations indicate he was a Jewish student and not a member of the German student body. The papers also include correspondence regarding Hermann Barschall's status as a patent attorney, his continuation in his profession under the Nazi regime due to his veteran status, and his dismissal from the profession after new anti-Jewish legislation of October 1938. 

The Henry H. Barschall papers are arranged as a single series: I. Henry H. Barschall papers, 1920-1938.