Eva Herrmann: Caricature portrait of Albert Einstein (circa 1931)
Eva Herrmann’s drawing of Albert Einstein was likely produced in 1931. It is possible that the painter and the physicist made each other’s acquaintance in New York.
“Ausrüstungsbogen für Knaben” issued by the Youth Aliyah (1935)
On 19 November 1935, Henrietta Szold, Director of the Youth Aliyah office in Jerusalem, sent this “Ausrüstungsbogen für Knaben” (form listing provisions for boys) to journalist, bookseller and photographer Walter Zadek in Tel Aviv. Zadek had been living in Palestine since 1933 after fleeing there from Berlin by way of the Netherlands.
A Night of Refugee Stars, concert programme (1939)
A few months after his arrival in the USA, violinist Friedrich Polnauer appeared alongside other artists such as pianist Martha Pollak and cellist Leo Rostal in a concert titled A Night of Refugee Stars given at the Institutional Synagogue in New York. The concert was one of a series organised by the Placement Committee for German and Austrian Musicians.
Affidavit of Sponsorship for Ilse Bing and Konrad Wolff (1940)
The process described here as “prepared” by the writer Hermann Kesten, volunteer adviser at the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC), was in fact an enormously laborious procedure. Every refugee applying for an emergency visa for the United States with the help of the ERC had to provide not only a financial guarantee, a curriculum vitae and proof of political persecution, but also an affidavit of sponsorship.
Affidavit of Support for Eric Schaal (1935)
The photographer Eric Schaal received his Affidavit of Support from Schye Schmidt, who worked in the wholesale butter and egg business in New York. According to the document, he was Schaal's cousin.
Arno Kikoler: symphony orchestra of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden [Cultural Federation of German Jews], photograph (c. 1934-36)
It is not known exactly when photographer Arno Kikoler took this photograph of the symphony orchestra of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden [Cultural Federation of German Jews] in Berlin. The photograph shows 38 members of the ensemble with their conductor Josef Rosenstock, who was appointed the orchestra’s director when it was founded in 1933 and continued in this post until 1936.
Arnold Schönberg: Letter to the photographer Eric Schaal, 30 January 1941
Photographer Eric Schaal, who emigrated from Munich to New York in 1936, began work for the Pix agency in 1937, making portraits of numerous artists, including Arnold Schönberg. A busy man, after the shoot Schönberg let Schaal wait some time before deciding on a selection of shots that he wanted to use for himself.
Arnold Zweig: Insulted and Exiled: The Truth about the German Jews 1933, manuscript (1933)
(Bilanz der deutschen Judenheit)In spring 1933 Arnold Zweig wrote down the first ideas and outlines of a book that he intended to take stock of German-Jewish relations. In face of the Jews’ dramatic situation in Germany, Zweig wished that his work would meet with more interest abroad.
Arnold Zweig: Letter to Hedwig Michaelis (1 November 1935)
In 1934 and 1935, Arnold Zweig and his wife Beatrice exchanged letters with Hedwig Michaelis in New York, the wife of the chemist Leonor Michaelis, on several occasions. The families had probably met in 1933 in Sanary-sur-Mer through Marta and Lion Feuchtwanger.
Austrian passport of Richard A. Bermann (March 1938)
During the period of Austrofascism in Austria from 1933, the NSDAP and other Nazi organisations were fast to gain many new members. Vienna, the birthplace of journalist and writer Richard A. Bermann alias Arnold Höllriegel was still his main place of residence at this time, interrupted by periods of stay in Great Britain and the USA.
![Manuscript: Arnold Zweig, Bilanz der deutschen Juden[heit] 1933](/KIE/Content/EN/Images/objects/zweig-arnold-bilanz-manuskript-en.jpg?__blob=thumbnail&v=5 "Manuscript: Arnold Zweig, Bilanz der deutschen Juden[heit] 1933")
