Correspondence with Buckeridge & Braune

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  • Reference
      GB 1556 3000/9/1/228
  • Dates of Creation
      24/05/1951 - 22/06/1963
  • Language of Material
      German
  • Physical Description
      28 letters

Scope and Content

Correspondence, with refugees Rudolf Graupner and Hans Jacobi almost exclusively, regarding restitution related information requests, and the lending of certain materials from the Library. The enquiries include among others former camps Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Sobibor. Moreover, Jacobi’s own restitution claim in West Germany, his Library membership and his authorship of a book review, published in the Library’s Bulletin, are mentioned.

Administrative / Biographical History

Buckeridge & Braune, Solicitors was a London-based law firm that employed several Jewish-German lawyers who had fled their home country after the Nazi seizure of power.

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