Finding aid for the Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod 6246
Gabriel Rainstorm and Bo Doub
USC Libraries Special Collections
2022 January
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod
Creator:
Frank, Eduard
Creator:
Brod, Joseph (1908-2001)
Identifier/Call Number: 6246
Physical Description:
1.04 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1953-1981
Abstract: The Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod consists of a collection of letters written between Eduard Frank and Joseph
Brod from 1953 to 1981. Eduard Frank was born in historical Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. After settling in
Germany following World War II, Frank authored one book,
Gustav Meyrink, Werk und Wirkung (1957) and served as editor on another book,
Das Haus zur Letzten Latern: Nachgelassenes und Verstreutes (1973). Joseph Brod (1908-2001) was a Holocaust survivor from Austria who eventually settled in the United States. Aside
from the correspondence, the collection also includes a folder of photographs sent from Brod to Frank.
Language of Material:
German
, English
, French
.
Scope and Contents
The Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod consists of a collection of letters written between Eduard Frank and Joseph
Brod from 1953 to 1981. Eduard Frank was born in historical Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. After settling in
Germany following World War II, Frank authored one book,
Gustav Meyrink, Werk und Wirkung (1957) and served as editor on another book,
Das Haus zur Letzten Latern: Nachgelassenes und Verstreutes (1973). Joseph Brod (1908-2001) was a Holocaust survivor from Austria who eventually settled in the United States. Aside
from the correspondence, the collection also includes a folder of photographs sent from Brod to Frank.
Biographical / Historical
Eduard Frank was born circa 1905 to a Catholic family in historical Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. Frank received
a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Commerce of Vienna. He
worked as a grammar school teacher in historical Czechoslovakia until World War II, when he was drafted into the German army.
After the war, Frank was forced from Czechoslovakia alongside others considered to be German, eventually settling in Germany.
Frank resumed his teaching in Germany and authored one book titled
Gustav Meyrink, Werk und Wirkung (1957) and served as editor on another book,
Das Haus zur letzten Latern: Nachgelassenes und Verstreutes (1973).
Joseph Brod was born in Vienna of historical Austria-Hungary to a Jewish family on June 2, 1908. In the late 1930s, Brod was
taken into Nazi custody and held at the Dachau concentration camp for many months, where he maintained infrequent correspondence
with his father, Emil Brod. Joseph married Martha Brod and worked as a cost accountant administrator for various employers
throughout his life, such as Wards. His work brought him to places such as Shanghai and Manila, and eventually to the United
States. Joseph and Martha Brod moved multiple times between Chicago, Illinois and San Diego, California. After retiring from
accounting, Joseph Brod engaged in some scholarship and translations for works written in German. Joseph Brod died on September
18, 2001.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
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Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod, Collection no. 6246, Special Collections, USC
Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies via Cornelius Schnauber, circa 2006.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Austrians -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Exiles -- Austria -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Germans -- Czech Republic -- Sudetenland -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Archival resources
Jews, Austrian -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Personal correspondence
Photographs
Brod, Joseph (1908-2001) -- Archives
Frank, Eduard -- Archives
Letters from Eduard Frank to Joseph Brod
Box 1, Folder 1
1953
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 1, Folder 2
1954
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 1, Folder 3
1955
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 4
1956
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 5
1957
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 6
1958
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 7
1959
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 8
1960
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 1, Folder 9
1961
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 10
1962
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 11
1963
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 12
1964
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 13
1965
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 14
1966
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 15
1967
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 16
1968
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 17
1969
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 18
1970
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 19
1971-1972
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 20
1973-1974
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 21
1975-1976
Language of Material: English, German.
Box 1, Folder 22
1977-1978
Language of Material: German.
Box 1, Folder 23
1979-1980
Language of Material: English, German.
Letters from Joseph Brod to Eduard Frank
Box 2, Folder 1
1981-1982
Language of Material: German.
Box 2, Folder 2
1962-1968
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 2, Folder 3
1970-1971
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 2, Folder 4
1972-1974
Language of Material: German.
Box 2, Folder 5
1975-1976
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 2, Folder 6
1977-1978
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 2, Folder 7
1979-1981
Language of Material: German, English.
Box 2, Folder 8
Photographs sent from Joseph Brod to Dr. Eduard Frank
1975-1979
Language of Material: English.
Box 2, Folder 9
[Shipping label from the collection's acquisition and handwritten box labels previously affixed to each box]
undated
Language of Material: English.
