Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Das Jüdische Echo
Angaben zur Quelle:
49 (2000) 329-331
Keywords:
Adler, Guido,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Adler, a musicologist at the University of Vienna who corresponded with all the leading composers of his day, remained in Vienna after 1938 together with his daughter, Dr. Melanie Adler. During the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, their house was ransacked and part of his archive confiscated by a former student, who was now a Nazi. Other former students, however, protected Adler so that he could stay in his own home. Melanie appealed to Winifred Wagner, begging her to intervene with Hitler to save both her father and the rest of his valuable archive; but Wagner, though willing, was unable to help. After Adler's death in February 1941 at the age of 85, the same Nazi student confiscated the rest of the archive. Melanie went into hiding, but in May 1942 she was deported to Minsk; her fate is unknown. After the war, Adler's son, who was in the U.S., waged a long legal battle for the return of the archives, but many valuable items were scattered and lost.
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