Nachtlicht Family Collection 1872-1999 Bulk: 1938-1942
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- microfilm; additional_collections
- Contributor
- Leo Baeck Institute Archives
- Language
- German
- Volume
- 02
Collection of personal documents of Ursula and Ilse Nachtlicht such as certificates, correspondence, photos, clippings, notebooks
Following documents are of special interest:
Documents from Hildegard Lewin, including a passenger list of the "Doppelschraubenschiff Orinoco" traveling from Hamburg to Habana, Veracruz and Tampico on May 27, 1939 (I.4. # 1)
Letter to Ilse dated July 7, 1939 from Beate Gabel from Rotterdam who was on the ship "St. Louis" and describes the events and current situation, 2p
Correspondence concering the emigration efforts of Leo and Anna Nachtlicht and Betty Herrmann, nee Levy (born Dec 18, 1877 in Marienwerder)
The following persons are mentioned in this collection:
Almond, Mary; Ball, Fritz; Busse, Anna; Busse, Annie L.; Busse, Max(imo); Diessl, Gustav; Engel, George; Gabel, Beate; Guitz, L.; Halford, Margaret; Herrmann, Betty; Hertzberg, M.; Kraus, Willy; Ladendorff, Herbert; Lewin, Hildegard; Nachtlicht, Anna, 1880-; Nachtlicht, Ilse, 1912-; Nachtlicht, Leo, 1872-; Rathenau, Kinusch; Reimann, Mr. & Mrs.; Simon, Walter; Thorkjoemsen, Konrad; Trier, Helen; Trier, Walter; Trotesski, V.; Wagner, L.; Wittenberg, Heinz
The following places are mentioned in this collection:
Berlin; Bielitz; Danzig; Hamburg; Havana; Le Havre; London; Marienwerder; Rotterdam; Tampico; Veracruz
see inventory list
Leo Nachtlicht (born Aug 12, 1872 in Bielitz, Austria later Poland) an architect and "Dozent" teaching about architecture, was married to Anna Nachtlicht, nee Levy (born May 28, 1880 in Marienwerder). They had two daughters: Ursula and Ilse
Ursula Nachtlicht was born on October 19, 1909 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. She studied arts and crafts at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin Charlottenburg. - Photographer - She died 1999 in Camden, England
Her sister Ilse Nachtlicht was born on September 16, 1912 in Berlin. She studied music and languages (French, English) and worked as a telephone operator for the Schocken publishing house, a job which she lost in 1936 due to the aryanization process. Later she worked for the "Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland"
Ursula and Ilse left Germany on April 18, 1939 onboard the "Manhattan" (an American ship) and travelled from Hamburg via LeHavre to London (arrival April 21, 1939), where they stayed with an aunt of their mother
Since 1946 (if not earlier) Ursula and Ilse used the name "Knight"
Betty Herrmann, nee Levy (born Dec 18, 1877 in Marienwerder), is Anna Nachtlicht's sister and lived in Danzig
Finding aid available online
Photographs removed to Photograph Collection
Notes
Film/Fiche is presented as originally captured.
- Addeddate
- 2010-12-07 20:22:02
- Call number
- 000200272
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- nachtlichtfamily02nach
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t3mw3851b
- Noindex
- true
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Page-progression
- lr
- Page_number_confidence
- 0
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 431
- Ppi
- 300
- Scandate
- 20101111224550
- Scanner
- microfilm01p.sanfrancisco.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- sanfrancisco
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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