Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2005) 179-212
Keywords:
Jewish libraries
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Hamburg (Germany)
Abstract:
Traces the history of the Hamburg Jewish community library between 1923-39. In 1928 the library comprised ca. 20,000 books, and there were 500 readers per month. In 1933 the collection increased due to donations of Jews who emigrated and left their books to the library. These donations included Judaica and German classics, as well as cookbooks, dictionaries, and commercial and technical literature. The sorting of these books was never completed. Although, after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, the files of the Jewish community contain no information on the fate of the library, files of the SD state that the collection was confiscated and sent to Berlin in 1939, with book lists probably compiled by librarian Else Menken (who was later deported to Theresienstadt and died in 1944). In this same period 70 Jewish libraries, comprising more than 300,000 books, were transferred to Berlin. In 1957, 131 boxes of books, part of the former library of Hamburg which had been stored in Dresden from the end of the war, were returned to Hamburg.
Note:
Appeared in Czech as " "Knihivna, kniha, ctenar"; k historii knihovny Židovske obce v Hamburku" in "Terezínské studie a dokumenty" (2005) 162-192.
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