Box 1
Contains 48 Results:
Letters to Hildegard Sekler, 1939
Includes a March 14 letter sent by Trude Mesuse from Paris after visiting Hildegard's parents in Austria. It states (in German), "Furthermore, your father wants you to know, if he writes "ich" like this at the end or the beginning of a sentence, you ought to pay attention to this sentence and think about it, because it will have a particular meaning he can't express clearly writing from Vienna. And you should be careful when you write, too."
Letters to Hildegard Sekler (3 folders), undated
Letters to Hildegard Sekler from family, 1939 January–1939 April
Letters to Hildegard Sekler from family, 1939 May–1939 June
Letters to Hildegard Sekler from family, 1939 July–1939 December
Letters to Hildegard Sekler from family, 1940
Letters to Hildegard Sekler from family, 1941
Leopold Sekler to Hildegard Sekler birthday wishes, 1941 March 25
On Red Cross letterhead with instructions for replying.
Lela Berg letter to Hildegard Sekler, 1942 November 14
Leopold and Toni Sekler letter and postcards to Suzi Liatowitsch., 1940–1944
Postcards (1943-1944) were sent by the Seklers from Theresienstadt and stamped in German stating that answers were to be made in the German language only.
NB: Theresienstadt was notable for housing privileged, wealthy classes of Jews, in addition to the aged. The Third Reich utilized the camp, duplicitously, as a showplace for the outside world. It a was the only ghetto or camp to which representatives of the International Red Cross were admitted.
Miscellaneous notes and reciepts, circa 1940-1950
Julia Shrivell autobiography, 1957
Seven handwritten pages, writer born Oct. 16, 1895.
Letters to Dr. Judah Simon Goller and Hildegard (Sekler) Goller, 1951–1972
Letters relating to Goller's practice as a medical doctor and personal correspondence.
Leopold Sekler Holocaust statistical information, undated
Print of database entry.
Envelopes (3 folders), circa 1930-1972
Postmarked envelopes for correspondence sent to Hildegard Sekler.
Apocrypha book, undated
In English, inscribed Oct. 10, 1903.
Leopold Sekler professional documents, 1907–1914
Documents relating to the profession of Leopold Sekler as an Oberfinanzrat (Upper Financial Council member) in the Vienna Finance Ministry.
Leopold Sekler professional documents, 1918–1922
Includes two 1921 issues of the biweekly Der Invalide, published by the state association for invalids and families of fallen soldiers.
Leopold Sekler university enrollment records, 1905
Notices of mandatory name changes for Leopold, Toni, and Hildegard Sekler (3 slips, dated Apr. 26, 1939) are inserted.
NB: On August 17, 1938 German authorities enacted The Executive Order on the Law on the Alteration of Family and Personal Names required that Jews with non-Jewish first names add "Israel", for males, or "Sara", for females, to their names.
Leopold Sekler university enrollment records, 1907
Toni Sekler passport, 1930
First page stamped "J" in red ink.
NB: Beginning in the autumn of 1938, Germany required that Jewish persons' passports be stamped with an identifying red letter "J".
Passport photo, circa 1939
Back of photo inscribed "Meiner sehr liebea Kleinen Hilda, Decembrie, 1939."
Jan Tylingo identification card, undated
Stamped with German eagle and swastika.
Immigration correspondence and documents, 1938–1939
Documents and correspondences relating to the Sekler family's efforts to flee Austria.
Hildegard Sekler immigration, education, and employment correspondence, 1941–1942
Documents relating to Hildegard Sekler's study and employment in London. Includes 1 letter from the Czechoslovak Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated January 28, 1942 regarding the Ministry's inability to help secure passage out of Vienna for Leopold and Toni Sekler.