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Lewin, Charlotte (b 1892): family papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 645

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Lewin, Charlotte (b 1892): family papers

Date(s): 1861-1950

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 3 files

Name of creator(s): Lewin | Charlotte | b 1892 | teacher

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Charlotte Lewin was born in Breslau in 1892. She went to school there and passed an examination to become a teacher of English and French in 1912. Soon afterwards she spent 18 months in England in order to improve her English. On her return to Breslau she worked as a secretary at the American Consulate until 1917 when diplomatic relations with the USA were broken. After a short period working as a librarian at the Breslau municipal library she went on to work in the archives and library at Breslau University Department of Economics.

She took over the running of her father's textile business along with an associate in 1923, her father having died in 1921. During this time she continued to teach and study the English language.

In October 1936 she was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for making defamatory comments about Goebbels after the latter had come to Breslau to give a lecture. After her release 7 months later she began to make plans to leave Germany. She arrived in England in March 1938. In London and later Darlington she worked for HM Forces Education Department as a German language teacher.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Personal papers of Charlotte Lewin and her father, Louis Lewin, 1861-1950, including papers of Louis Lewin comprising school leaving, marriage and death certificates, testimonials and other papers; and personal papers of Charlotte Lewin including various certificates and testimonials, correspondence and other papers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German, English

System of arrangement:

Chronologically by family member.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Susan Hammerschlag

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Emigration | Migration
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
German history | European history | National history
Jews | Religious groups
Schools | Educational institutions
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Lewin | Charlotte | b 1892 | teacher

Corporate names
German Emergency Committee
German Jewish Aid Committee
Society of Friends

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Wroclaw | Poland | Eastern Europe