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- 1933-1939 (Creation)
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1 mf reel
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Fritz Goldschmidt was born in Breslau in 1893, the son of a doctor who founded the first Jewish student fraternity in 1886. Goldschmidt was a judge in the High Court in Berlin, however shortly after the Nazis came to power, new legislation precluded him from continuing in the profession and he devoted most of his time to working for the Central Verein Deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central League of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) as the representative for Charlottenburg.
Goldschmidt was sent to Sachsenhausen between 1937 and 1938; a detailed description of this can be found within his personal account. At Sachsenhausen he befriended an evangelical preacher, an acquaintance of Martin Buber and Pastor Niemöller.
After Goldschmidt's release he came to Great Britain in May 1939. He later became joint secretary of the United Restitution Office in London in 1949 and died in 1968.
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GB 1556 WL 617 1933-1939 Collection level 1 mf reel Goldschmidt , Fritz , 1893-1968 , judge
Fritz Goldschmidt was born in Breslau in 1893, the son of a doctor who founded the first Jewish student fraternity in 1886. Goldschmidt was a judge in the High Court in Berlin, however shortly after the Nazis came to power, new legislation precluded him from continuing in the profession and he devoted most of his time to working for the Central Verein Deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central League of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) as the representative for Charlottenburg.
Goldschmidt was sent to Sachsenhausen between 1937 and 1938; a detailed description of this can be found within his personal account. At Sachsenhausen he befriended an evangelical preacher, an acquaintance of Martin Buber and Pastor Niemöller.
After Goldschmidt's release he came to Great Britain in May 1939. He later became joint secretary of the United Restitution Office in London in 1949 and died in 1968.
Goldschmidt family
Fritz Goldschmidt's diaries and eyewitness testimony collection comprises diaries, 1933-1939 (617/1) and a typescript personal account entitled 'Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30 Januar 1933', undated (617/2).
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Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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.
November 2007 Antisemitism Berlin Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens x Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith Diaries Documents Europe Germany Goldschmidt , Fritz , 1893-1968 , judge Information sources Jews Legal profession Literary forms and genres Literature Nazism Nonfiction Political doctrines Primary documents Prose Racial discrimination Religious groups Third Reich Totalitarianism Western Europe
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Goldschmidt family
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Fritz Goldschmidt's diaries and eyewitness testimony collection comprises diaries, 1933-1939 (617/1) and a typescript personal account entitled 'Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30 Januar 1933', undated (617/2).
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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German
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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
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- Interethnic relations » Ethnic discrimination » Antisemitism
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- Religious groups » Jews
- Legal profession
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism » Nazism
- Political doctrines
- Documents » Primary documents
- Literary forms and genres » Prose
- Religious groups
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism
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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.
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- English