us-005578-irn608335-irn163666
has or had some members with language: eng
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn163666
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1980-12-31
type: RecordSet
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1948-12-31
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scope and content: The Wilhelm Baumann papers consist largely of correspondence, immigration documents, educational records, identification documents, newspapers, and ephemera; related to the emigration of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents from their native Austria in 1939, his life in the United Kingdom and subsequent classification as an enemy alien, his subsequent deportation to Australia in 1940 on the Dunera, and his experiences in two internment camps in New South Wales and Victoria (Camp Hay and Camp Tatura). The collection also contains an extensive selection of his correspondence with other German and Austrian Jewish émigrés in Australia and elsewhere, his subsequent release from the camps and activities in the Jewish communities of Victoria, and his immigration to the United States, including his reunion with his parents, in 1947. Included are documents related to the period of the emigration of the Baumann family from Austria, including passports, letters of reference from employers, education records, identification documents, and similar materials. The section pertaining to Wilhelm Baumann’s life in the two Australian internment camps includes correspondence with various authorities, including the U.S. Department of State, regarding his efforts to obtain release from the camps, in the hopes—after early 1941—of being able to immigrate to the United States, to rejoin his parents. In addition, while there are no documents related to the voyage on the Dunera, there are many documents about life in the camps after arrival in Australia, including documents related to the kosher kitchen that Baumann worked in; a newsletter produced by internees in Camp Hay, titled “The Boomerang,” with artwork by Baumann on the cover; and miscellaneous documents from Baumann’s period in the camps, ranging from samples of camp scrip, records of educational courses taken by Baumann in the camp, letters of reference, and documents pertaining to his release and parole in 1943. By far the most extensiv…
has or had holder: us-005578
biographical history: Wilhelm Theodor Baumann was born in Vienna, on 11 May 1922. His parents were Jakob Baumann, born in Gwozdice, Kolomea, Poland (present-day Kolomyia, Ukraine) on 28 Sept 1895, and Anna Ester Baumann (née Steinherz), born in Vienna on 20 November 1893. Anna’s parents were Isidor (d. 1933) and Julianna (Pollack) Steinherz (d. 1941). Jakob and Anna were married in Vienna on 22 July 1921, and documents from the period show that Jakob practiced the trade of carpenter. Wilhelm Baumann attended school in Vienna up through 1938, attending both the public schools as well as a Jewish school, where he was instructed in the Torah. With the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, however, he and his parents decided to immigrate to Britain, with Wilhelm leaving first, in March 1939, and arriving in Swansea, Wales, where he and other young Jewish immigrants from Austria were cared for by the local Jewish community and the family of Rabbi J. Freedman. Wilhelm’s parents arrived in the following year, but lived instead in Manchester, re-establishing contact with their son as best as they could. However, with the declaration of war between Britain and Germany in late 1939, immigrants like the Baumanns were soon forced to register as enemy aliens, and Wilhelm, along with many of the young men he knew from Swansea, were soon detained, and either sent to internment camps elsewhere in Britain or Canada, or as in Wilhelm’s case, to Australia. Following his journey on the HMT Dunera in 1940, Wilhelm was interned at Camp Hay, in New South Wales (1940-1942), and then in Camp Tatura, in Victoria (1942-1943). While there, Wilhelm associated with a group of approximately 200 other internees who identified themselves as “strict Orthodox” Jews, who kept kosher and maintained a kosher kitchen in the camps. During this period, his parents had managed, thanks to the help of relatives, to immigrate to the United States in 1941 and settle in Shreveport, Louisiana, where Wilhelm had hoped to join them, bu…
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1928-01-01
has or had some members with language: heb
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn608335-irn163666/acquisitions/1
record resource structure: The Wilhelm Baumann papers are arranged in five series: I. Biographical, II. Camp Life, III. Correspondence, and IV., Post-camp life and immigration. V. Oversize. Files are generally arranged alphabetically by subject or by name of correspondent within each series.
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn608335-irn163666/alternateIDs/1
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1939-01-01
is or was included in: us-005578-irn608335
title: Wilhelm Baumann papers
has or had some members with language: deu
record resource extent: boxes oversize folders 2 2 2 negatives,