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Title: Kurt Richard Grossman Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1973
Collection number: 75026
Creator:
Grossman, Kurt R. (Kurt Richard), 1897-1972
Collection Size:
59 ms. boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 envelope, 1 motion picture film reel.
(25 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, clippings, and serial issues, relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, postwar German and
Austrian restitution payments to Jewish war victims, German-Israeli relations, the conditions of Jews throughout the world,
and civil liberties in the United States and Germany.
Physical Location : Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
German and
English.
Box 64 closed.
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Also available on microfilm (83 reels).
| 1897, May 21 | Born, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1926-1933 | General Secretary, Deutsche Liga fuer Menschenrechte. |
| 1933, February 28 | Fled from Germany to Prague. |
| 1933, August 30 | Expatriated. |
| 1933-1938 | Director, Demokratische Fluechtlings-fuersorge, Prague. |
| 1935 | Participated in effort to nominate Carl von Ossietzky for the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1939 | Emigrated to the United States. |
| 1943 | Author, Peace and the German Problem. |
| 1944 | Co-author (with Arieh Tartakower), The Jewish Refugee. |
| 1954 | Author, Germany's Moral Debt. |
| 1957 | Author, Die unbesungenen Helden (The unsung heroes). |
| 1958 | Author, Germany and Israel. |
| 1961 | Co-editor and contributor, Der Friede: Festgabe fuer Adolf Leschnitzer (Peace: presentation for Adolf Leschnitzer). |
| U.S. correspondent for Vorwaerts, publication of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, and other newspapers in Europe and Israel. | |
| 1963 | Author, Ossietzky: ein deutscher Patriot (Ossietzky: a German patriot), awarded the Albert Schweitzer book prize. |
| 1967 | Author, Die Ehrenschuld: Kurzgeschichte der Wiedergutmachung (Debt of honor: short history of restitution). |
| 1969 | Author, Emigration: Geschichte der Hitler Fluechtlinge, 1933-1945 (Emigration: history of the refugees from Hitler's Germany). |
| 1970 | Co-editor and contributor, Gegenwart im Rueckblick: Festgabe fuer die juedische Gemeinde zu Berlin 25 Jahre nach dem Neubeginn (The present in retrospect: presentation for the Jewish community in Berlin 25 years after its re-establishment). |
| 1971 | Participated in effort to nominate Willy Brandt for the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1972 | Died, Miami, Florida. |
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, correspondence, clippings, and serial issues, relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, postwar German and
Austrian restitution payments to Jewish war victims, German-Israeli relations, the conditions of Jews throughout the world,
and civil liberties in the United States and Germany.
Civil rights--Germany.
Civil Rights--United States.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jews--Austria.
Jews--Germany.
Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.
Refugees.
Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews.
Austria.
Germany.
Germany (West)--Foreign relations--Israel.
Israel.
Israel--Foreign relations--Germany (West)
United States
Moving-pictures.