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German Exiles collection
Collection
Identifier: 6201
Abstract
The German Exiles collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other material relating to various German exiles, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann. The German Exiles collection finding aid began as a description of purchased material, consisting of a letter and photographs of Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann (by Ernest Gottlieb...
Dates:
1932 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1950
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Paul Kiess papers
Collection
Identifier: 6032
Abstract
This collection contains the personal papers of Dr. Paul Kiess. The collection contains personal correspondence and correspondence with Christian organizations in the US, photographs, newspaper clippings, outlines for Dr. Kiess' speeches, and ephemera. Dr. Paul Kiess, a Protestant, was a legal adviser, a lector of the Thüringische Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, and Urania Verlagsbuchhandlung in Jena, Thuringia, and a member of the Thuringian parliament. Paul and his wife Edith, a half Jew,...
Dates:
1915 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1941
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Ernst Matray papers
Collection
Identifier: 0237
Abstract
The papers include personal correspondence and correspondence related to actor, director, mime, and choreographer Ernst Matray’s artistic life, as well as photographs, invoices & statements, press clippings, artwork by Ernst Matray, autobiographic manuscripts and creative writing, some audio/visual materials, and some correspondence and invoices & statements of Matray’s third wife Elizabeth McKinley Matray. The papers comprise materials from the years 1933-1984, the bulk beeing from...
Dates:
1933 - 1955
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Schnurmann family papers
Collection
Identifier: 6036
Abstract
Alfred Schnurmann (born 1905 in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine) was the son of a prosperous Jewish wool merchant. In 1940, Alfred and his daughter Marion were able to obtain visas to the United States as part of the "French" quota, and traveled to the U.S. via Japan and settled in San Francisco. Alfred worked at the Richelieu Hotel and then for Levi Strauss before getting a job in 1945 with the Southern Pacific Railroad. He worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad until his retirement in 1983. In...
Dates:
1898-1970s; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1955
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Harold von Hofe papers
Collection
Identifier: 0390
Abstract
The collection comprises materials related to von Hofe's tenure as a librarian at USC as well as manuscripts, research notes, articles, and correspondence. Most materials are related to Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger as well as other German-speaking exiles.
Dates:
1904 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1990
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections