Collection GB 1556 WL 520 - Bloch, Julius (1877-1956): correspondence (microfilm)

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GB 1556 WL 520 1939-1941 collection 104 frames Bloch , Julius , 1877-1956 , Jewish community worker

Julius Bloch was born in Bruehl/ Baden in June 1877. He became a member of the Jewish Gemeindevorstand in Pforzheim, Baden Wuertemberg, in 1923; member of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Frankfurt/ Main, where he was also chairman of the Jewish welfare committee and head of the regional office for the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland. He was responsible for rationalisng the provision of welfare to Jews in Frankfurt by centralising the numerous smaller organisations into one large organisation. By May 1938 he was living in London. In 1946 he was deputy of the New Liberal Congregation, London. He died in London in 1956.

Bloch family

This microfilm collection of correspondence documents the experiences of Julius Bloch and family and friends, some of whom managed to escape Nazi occupied Europe, and others, who did not. The papers include correspondence from his brother in Gurs concentration camp in the French Pyrénees, where he died.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
German, English

Microfilm

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Other correspondence of Julius Bloch can be found in the Weiner Library (ref: WL 1436).

'Israelitisches Familienblatt', Hamburg-Berlin, 9.6.1938, No. 23. Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Oct ober 2007 Bloch , Julius , 1877-1956 Concentration camps Europe Frankfurt Germany Gurs concentration camp Humanitarian law Human rights violations Immigration Jewish emancipation Jews Liberation movements Migration Nazism Occupied territories Political doctrines Political movements Religious groups Totalitarianism War crimes Western Europe

Bloch family

This microfilm collection of correspondence documents the experiences of Julius Bloch and family and friends, some of whom managed to escape Nazi occupied Europe, and others, who did not. The papers include correspondence from his brother in Gurs concentration camp in the French Pyrénees, where he died.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

• English

• Latin

German, English

Other correspondence of Julius Bloch can be found in the Weiner Library (ref: WL 1436).

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English