Metadata: Private Papers of J Heilbut
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Reference number:
- Documents.6491
- Title:
- Private Papers of J Heilbut
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of J Heilbut
- Creator/accumulator:
- Heilbut, J
- Date(s):
- 1903/1995
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Interesting collection of official and semi-official papers (circa 100pp ts/ms) relating to a German-Jewish refugee, comprising: birth certificate and similar documents, school reports (Talmud Tora School, Hamburg) for 1903 - 1911, papers concerning his military service during the First World War, application for permission to emigrate to the United States via England shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939 and continued attempts during his internment on the Isle of Man during 1940 - 1941, his residence in New York 1948 - 1949, a few papers dated 1969 of the New York Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, correspondence dated 1960 - 1973 concerning the investigation by the Hamburg authorities of atrocities committed against Jews in the Riga area of Nazi-occupied Latvia, some correspondence dated 1994 - 1995 regarding attempts to trace the Heilbut family, a family photograph, and a few miscellaneous documents largely concerning his emigration to the United States.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- New York
- Riga
- Access points: persons/families:
- Heilbut, J
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Refugees
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030006349
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25