IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 520
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Bloch, Julius (1877-1956): correspondence (microfilm)
Date(s): 1939-1941
Level of description: collection
Extent: 104 frames
Name of creator(s): Bloch | Julius | 1877-1956 | Jewish community worker
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Julius Bloch was born in Bruehl/ Baden in June 1877. He became a member of the Jewish Gemeindevorstand in Pforzheim, Baden Wuertemberg, in 1923; member of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Frankfurt/ Main, where he was also chairman of the Jewish welfare committee and head of the regional office for the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland. He was responsible for rationalisng the provision of welfare to Jews in Frankfurt by centralising the numerous smaller organisations into one large organisation. By May 1938 he was living in London. In 1946 he was deputy of the New Liberal Congregation, London. He died in London in 1956.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This microfilm collection of correspondence documents the experiences of Julius Bloch and family and friends, some of whom managed to escape Nazi occupied Europe, and others, who did not. The papers include correspondence from his brother in Gurs concentration camp in the French Pyrénees, where he died.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German, English
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bloch family
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Other correspondence of Julius Bloch can be found in the Weiner Library (ref: WL 1436).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: 'Israelitisches Familienblatt', Hamburg-Berlin, 9.6.1938, No. 23. Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct ober 2007