Correspondence with Aufbau

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1556 3000/9/1/97
  • Dates of Creation
      17/06/1955 - 06/01/1958
  • Language of Material
      German
  • Physical Description
      7 letters

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding the birthdays of Rudolf Apt and Georg Salzberger, and the death of Kurt Sabatzky, all three of them Jewish-German refugees in England. The latter had worked as secretary for The Wiener Library from 1947-53, and had been involved in the institute's eyewitness testimony project.

Administrative / Biographical History

Aufbau is a Jewish German language journal. Founded in New York in 1934 it soon became a main source of information for German-speaking Jewry around the globe. See Kotkowski, E.-V. (ed.), Aufbau: Sprachrohr. Heimat. Mythos. Geschichte(n) einer deutsch-jüdischen Zeitung aus New York 1934 bis heute, Berlin, Hentrich & Hentrich, 2011.

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Related Material

For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/71059.

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