us-005578-irn594552-irn594843
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scope and content: The Thomas Rey papers primarily consist of letters he received in England from family members in Germany. Correspondents include his parents Lilli and Hans Rehfisch, his grandmothers Hedwig Rehfisch and Agnes Stadthagen, his aunts Käthe Wassertrudinger, Toni Salomon, and Hilde Stadthagen, and his friends Rolf Einzinger, Selma Wohl, and Gabi Sachs. Most of the correspondence is addressed from Berlin, but some of Lilli’s letters were sent from Neubabelsberg (Potsdam), some of Käthe’s letters were sent from Palestine, and some of Thomas’ friends wrote from elsewhere in Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The collection also includes a copy of the first aid booklet Erste Hilfe bei Erkrankungen und Unglücksfäallen mit Benützung von Dr. Dessauer's"Tourin" Apotheke as well as University of London records documenting Thomas Rey’s education.
title: Thomas Rey papers
type: RecordSet
date: circa 1936-1956
biographical history: Thomas Rey (1918-1991) was born Thomas Julius Rehfisch on January 31, 1918 to Hans José (Joseph) Rehfisch (April 10, 1891-1960) and Lilli Dora Stadthagen Rehfisch (September 29, 1891-1941). He had one sister, Beate Susanna (later Beata Duncan, August 3, 1921-2015). The family lived in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin. Hans was trained as a lawyer but became a playwright and scriptwriter. Lilli was a psychoanalyst who studied in the Adler school. Her uncle Arthur Stadthagen had served in the Reichstag. Lilli had two siblings: Toni (July 8, 1887-August 10, 1942) and Paul (August 19, 1893-February 6, 1943), a decorated bomber pilot for Germany in World War I. Hans’s parents were Eugen (1862-1937) and Hedwig Rehfisch (b. 1866). Eugen, a noted cardiologist, died of natural causes in 1937, and Hedwig immigrated to Palestine to join their daughter and son-in-law, Käthe and Otto Wassertrudinger. Lilli’s parents were Julius Stadthagen (1865-1912) and Agnes Jacobi Stadthagen (1864-1938). After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Thomas’s father Hans was mistaken for his friend and colleague Erwin Piskator and arrested in Dresden. He was released on condition that he leave Germany immediately. He fled to Vienna and then to England. In January 1934, Lilli brought their children, Thomas and Beate, to England after obtaining visas through a cousin. The children first attended Bunce Court School in Kent and then settled in north London. Lilli lived briefly in London but returned to Berlin in the mid-1930s; she visited her children regularly as long as it was possible. Hans remained in England and was interned on the Isle of Man as an “enemy alien” in 1940. He returned to Germany in 1950 and died in Switzerland in 1960. On November 29, 1941, Lilli was deported from Nuremburg to Riga, where she was killed. Her sister Toni Salomon and her disabled daughter Eva Marie (September 18, 1924-August 10, 1942) were deported to Auschwitz on July 11, 1942 and murdered there on Augu…
record resource structure: The Thomas Rey papers are arranged as a single series.
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identifier: irn594843