Inventory of the Alfred Buchler Collection, 1941 - 1950
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Inventory of the Alfred Buchler Collection, 1941 - 1950
Accession number: GTU 93-10-02
Shelf location: 2/F/3
The Graduate Theological Union Archives
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Graduate Theological Union Archives
- 2400 Ridge Road
- Berkeley, California, 94709
- Phone: (510) 649-2507
- Fax: (510) 649-2508
- Email: lglenn@gtu.edu
- URL: http://www.gtu.edu/library/archives.html
- Processed by:
- The Lucinda Glenn Rand
- Date Completed:
- 12/15/95
- Date Revised:
- 10/22/95; 6/3/97; and 10/14/98
- Cataloged:
- 12/95
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Alfred Buchler Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1941 - 1950
Accession number: GTU 93-10-02
Shelf location: 2/F/3
Creator:
Buchler, Alfred
Size: 2 boxes, 1 folio, 8 in.
Type of material: Travel tickets, newsletters, student records, oral history tapes, music programs.
Repository: The Graduate Theological Union.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Source and Date
A. Buchler, 1993
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing
to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of The Graduate Theological Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alfred Buchler Collection, GTU 93-10-02, The Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Access Points
Tikvah Star
Jews -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- Sources
Refugees, Jewish -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- Sources
Jews, Austrian -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- Sources
Biographical/Historical Description
Alfred Buchler was born in Vienna, Austria, January 17, 1927, only child of Josef and Fryma Sara (Sali) Buchler. Trying, but
finding it impossible to get visas for the United States, then Chile, the Buchler family succeeded in getting out of Vienna,
March 1941. They crossed on the Transsiberian Railway to China, arriving in Shanghai, May 1941. Alfred attended St. Francis
Xavier's College (equivalent of U.S. high school), then entered Universite L'Aurore, September 1944. After the war, Alfred
joined the Tikvah (meaning hope) Club for boys, formed by the American senior Jewish chaplain. In 1946, Sali Buchler had a
stroke, and died in January 1948. Alfred had left Shanghai, entering the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1947. At the end
of 1948, with the Communists closing on Shanghai, Josef Buchler left, crossing to San Francisco, to New York, finally to Israel.
Scope and Content
The material had no original order. It is here arranged chronologically.
NOTE: This collection represents a part of Buchler's total original material. Further materials are located: 1)
Holocaust Oral History Project (P. O. Box 77603, San Francisco, CA 94107: 415-882-7092): interviews covering experiences in Vienna up to leaving for Shanghai,
1941. 2)
Leo Baeck Institute (129 E. 73rd St., New York, NY 10021: 212-744-6400): Vienna school reports, German passport, and diary-calendar.
3)
University of San Francisco (2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117-1080: 415-666-6292): a run of the
Bulletin de l'Aurore (photocopies of title pages, ff 3). Several items in the collection have suffered extreme water damage.
Box Box 1, Folder ff 1
Transsiberian Railway, 1941: tickets, luggage tags
Folder ff 3
Josef Buchler, vital information form, ca. 1943
Folder ff 4
St. Francis Xavier's College, 1941-44
Folder ff 5
Xavier's College Class Exercise Books
Folder ff 6-7
Universite L'Aurore, 1944-47
Folder ff 8
L'Aurore Class Exercise Books
Folder ff 9
Newsletter: The Collegiate, Shanghai, 1 issue, 1945
Folder ff 10
Newsletter: The Beacon, Shanghai, Vol. 1, nos. 4-7, 5-6/1946
Folder ff 12
Poem: "Return of the Native", ca. 1946
Folder ff 13
Tikvah Youth Organization, Shanghai, 1947
Tikvah Star, Shanghai, 1947
Tikvah Star, U.S., 1 issue, 1948
Tikvah Star, St. Louis, 1948-50
Tikvah Star, New York, 1949
Folder ff 19
Tikvah: Addresses of Members Abroad, c. 1947-48
Box Box 2, Folder ff 1
Letters relating to Immigration to U.S., 1947
Folder ff 2
Passage to U.S., S.S. Marine Adder, 1947
Music and Permission to Play, Café Splendid, 1941
Shanghai Municipal Symphony, 1946-47
Folder ff 8
Postcards, Shanghai: Collected by Buchler in Berkeley, CA, c. 1970-90
Folder ff 9
Oral History: Articles on Shanghai experiences
Folder ff 10
Oral History: Transcript of audiotaped interviews
Folder ff 11
Oral History: Summaries of interview tapes, Buchler itinerary
Folder ff 12
"For Markie Sopher", 1978
Box Small Collection Box 3, Folder ff 8
Newsletters: Tikvah Star, San Francisco, 1948-49
Additional Note
Note: legal size file folder
Folder ff 9
American President Lines, S.S. Marine Adder: tax receipt and ship's newsletter, December 1947
Additional Note
Note: legal size file folder
Box Small Collections Box 7, Folder ff 8
Poem by Sali Buchler, 1941 (en route to Shanghai: handwritten, extreme water damage)
Additional Note
Note: legal size
Folio Folio 1
Oral History Tapes: 4 cassettes, Interviewer: Theresa Pipe
1) Interview 8/12/94, Sides A & B: Buchler's family experience in their move as stateless refugees to Shanghai during WWII.
2) Interview 8/23/94, Sides A & B: Buchler's experience in Shanghai -- transport there in 1941, living in Hongkew Ghetto (Jewish Community WWII).
Attending St. Francis Xavier's College.
3) Interview 8/23/94, Side A: Buchler's experience in Shanghai during WWII.
4) Interview 9/9/94, Side A: Buchler's experience in Shanghai during WWII. Univ. L'Aurore and end of the war.
