Metadata: Correspondence Heinz Rosenberg (Henry L. Robertson) and Ute Hinze, teacher at the Voigt School (Realschule), on the occasion of a visit by Rosenberg in Göttingen, where he also met with Mrs Hinze’s school class
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Göttingen Municipal Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Göttingen
- Postal address:
- Stadtarchiv Göttingen, Hiroshimaplatz 4, 37083 Göttingen
- Phone number:
- +49 551 400 3122
- Web address:
- www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@goettingen.de
- Reference number:
- Kl. E. 211
- Title:
- Correspondence Heinz Rosenberg (Henry L. Robertson) and Ute Hinze, teacher at the Voigt School (Realschule), on the occasion of a visit by Rosenberg in Göttingen, where he also met with Mrs Hinze’s school class
- Title (official language):
- Korrespondenz Heinz Rosenberg (Henry L. Robertson) und Ute Hinze, Lehrerin an der Voigt-Realschule, anlässlich eines Besuchs von Rosenberg in Göttingen, bei dem er auch mit der Schulklasse von Frau Hinze zusammentraf.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ute Hinze
- Date(s):
- 1991/1997
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- In addition to the subjects described in the title of this collection, there are also copies of letters and reports from the students about Rosenberg's visit.
- Archival history:
-
Given as a deposit by Mrs. Ute Hinze after 1997.
History of the Municipal Archive: On 1 April 1900 the magistrate transferred the position of an archivist from Dr. Priesack to Dr. Ferdinand Wagner. In the winter of 1902-3, Wagner's first major act was the move from the Hardenberger Hof to the new townhouse. Here, Wagner devoted himself primarily to the cataloguing of the letter collections and provided for the extension of the archive library. In 1934, Dr. Wilhelm van Kempen became Wagner’s successor, the first archivist to practice this profession on a full-time basis. In 1935, the archive was able to expand its premises by purchasing the building of the fraternity "Saxonia" and in 1936 the archive was relocated to the so-called "Sachsenhaus". Until June 1936, a reorganisation of the archive followed. With few exceptions no more files had been transferred to the archive since 1850. Therefore much had to be made up after the enlargement of the premises. In June 1942 many collections were stored outside the city to protect them from air raids. After the war, the collections were brought back without losses. Volunteers and part-time employees helped with the inventory of the material in the following years. From 1974 to 1996, the archivist and historian Helga-Maria Kühn was head of the Municipal Archive of Göttingen. At the time of writing (2018), the archivist and historian Ernst Böhme heads the Municipal Archive and the Municipal Museum in Göttingen.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Heinz Ludwig Rosenberg (15 September 1921 - 13 August 1997), later known as Henry Robertson, was a German-born American author and Holocaust survivor. He survived a total of eleven concentration camps and was one of only seven survivors of the Minsk ghetto. He later recounted his war-time experiences in the book “The Years of Horror: An Authentic Report“. Rosenberg was born into a Jewish family in Göttingen, where his father owned a linen factory.
- Access points: locations:
- Göttingen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Robertson, Henry L
- Rosenberg, Heinz
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- No access due to the archive's 30 year closure period.
- Finding aids:
- Printed finding aid: “E 1 – Register für Deposita, Kleine Erwerbungen, Nachlässe, Sammlungen“
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2018