Paul Tauchner document collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Paul Tauchner and his wife, Diana (née Horowicz), are children of parents who survived the Holocaust in Poland. He acquires Nazi-era collections at auction in order to keep such material publicly available. He lives in Munich and works as a patent and trademark attorney in chemistry and pharmacology. 

Paul Tauchner document collection 

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The Paul Tauchner document collection primarily documents restrictions on Rosa Block (1867‐1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard to someone interned at Theresienstadt, picture postcards depicting Adolf Hitler, and a form documenting Johanna Meisinger’s Aryan descent. Rosa Block materials include an identification card, a bulletin from the Jüdische Kultusvereinigung about restrictions on movable property of Jews, a solicitation for a mandatory contribution to the Jüdische Winterhilfe, a doctor’s bill, and correspondence documenting the Prussian State Bank’s efforts to expropriate bank shares from her and the requirement that her heirs after her death not be Jewish. 

The Paul Tauchner document collection is arranged as a single series: I. Paul Tauchner document collection, approximately 1938-1946