Metadata: Papers of Ian Karten
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 409 A4140
- Title:
- Papers of Ian Karten
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Ian Karten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Karten, Ian
- Date(s):
- 1893/2011
- Date note:
- circa 1895/2011
- Language:
- English
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 1.5 linear metres: 12 boxes; 4 framed pictures; 2 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The archive is mainly composed of biographical and family and related papers; certificates and awards; appointment diaries; passports and nationalisation documents; correspondence and legal papers with topics including reparations for Holocaust; photographs; and papers relating to the Multitone Electric Company, CTEC Trust and Centres, Jewish Studies, and Israel.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ian Karten was born in Vienna to a family of Polish nationality. At the age of 3 he moved to Duisburg in Germany where his father started a business. Facing antisemitism at his German school, at 16 Karten was sent to a Jewish School in Cologne. In 1938 he obtained a visa to come to England and studied Medical Engineering at Battersea College (now the University of Surrey). In 1946 Karten joined Multitone Electronic Ltd and in time became its Managing Director, Chairman and the CEO. The Ian Karten Charitable Trust was created after Karten sold his share in Multitone Electronics. It was established as a grant-making trust in 1980 to offer educational opportunities to those in need. In 1996 the Trustees decided to devote a substantial part of the Trust’s resources to the establishment of centres for disabled people to be known as Computer-Aided Training, Education and Communication (CTEC) Centres. The first CTEC Centre was established in 1997 in Berkshire. Since the 1990s, the University of Southampton’s Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations has been a benefactor of the Karten Trust. In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for his services to charity.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Karten, Ian
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Restitution and compensation
- Trade and commerce
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
