Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
48 (2003) 191-203
Keywords:
Singer, Kurt,
;
Jüdischer Kulturbund
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Singer, the general director of the Jüdischer Kulturbund in Germany, hoped to preserve German Jewish culture in the Nazi Reich or to transplant it to the USA. His hopes were shattered by the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Instead of returning to Germany from the USA, where he had tried to raise funds for the transplantation of the organization, Singer became a refugee in Amsterdam. In 1943 he was deported to Theresienstadt, where he died in 1945. Pp. 200-203 contain two letters sent by him from Amsterdam to Germany in 1938: one to Hans Hinkel, the Nazi official in charge of supervising the Kulturbund's activities, and one to the managers of the Kulturbund. The letters express Singer's disappointment with the idea of continuing the Kulturbund elsewhere and his keen awareness of the imminent danger to German Jewry.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/48.1.191
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