Siegmund Levarie, July 5, 2001 (Aktennotizen)

Siegmund Levarie, August 28, 2001 (Photocopy of letter by Erna Patak, Brochure: Activity during twelve months of war: 1.9.1939 - 31.8.1940

We also received a letter by Prof. Leonard Ehrlich about his agreement with Prof. Levarie to have access to the papers (July 10, 2001)

Siegmund Levarie, November 26, 2001: ADDENDA:

a) Letters written by J. Loewenherz to Siegmund Levarie in America (1939-1941, Paris, Lissabon, Budapest)

b) Letters written form Vienna by Sofie Loewenherz to family members in the USA (1939-1941)

c) Letter by his wife Sofie (may 1945)

d) Draft of answers in Eichmann trial

e) Various postwar documents and letters (1946-1947)

f) Manuscript by Leonard H. Ehrlich: leadership under duress (1981)

g) Article by Norman Bentwich: The destruction of the Jewish Community in Austria 1938 - 1942

Series I: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien: Memos (Aktennotizen), 1938-1945

Series II: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien: Other Documents, 1939-1940

Series III: Joseph Löwenherz, 1939-1960

Series IV: Sofie Löwenherz, 1939-1945

The collection documents Joseph Löwenherz's activities as the head of Jewish community in Vienna, Austria and his interactions with the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung and Gestapo Hauptamt in Vienna. It contains copies of the memos and other reports Joseph Löwenherz had to submit to the Zentralstelle and the Gestapo, which were used as evidence in Adolf Eichmann's trial. Also included are documents and correspondence related to the Eichmann trial as well as correspondence between Löwenherz and his son written between 1939 and 1941 during his travels to several European cities, where he attended meetings concerning the mass repatriation of Jewish citizens out of Europe

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