Part 3 – LBI and the Day of Digital Archives Weekend at Scharmützelsee – 1935 This is an example of an archival collection that takes on an entirely new meaning in the context of information provided by the donors. This footage of summer vacationers in Germany in the 1930s contains few clues about the identity of the subjects or their historical circumstances. In isolation, historians…
Part 2 – LBI and the Day of Digital Archives FC Bayern München vs. Eintracht Frankfurt In 1932, FC Bayern München faced Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Championship football match on June 12, 1932 at the Städtisches Stadion in Nuremberg. The game was a repeat of the southern-German title game that spring, in which Eintracht Frankfurt won 2:0. Munich turned the tables on Frankfurt…
The Leo Baeck Institute and the Day of Digital Archivesby David Brown, Leo Baeck Institute Leo Baeck Institute is home to nearly 4,000 linear feet of archival collections, 25,000 photographs, and thousands of artworks related to the history of German-speaking Jews. Today, the Institute is finished digitizing nearly all of it, plus hundreds of books from the Library collection. Since 2007, the Institute…
Out of the Archives: Franz Werfel Family Correspondenceby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Above: Telegram from Marianne Rieser to mother Albine Werfel regarding meeting with Varian Fry. January 14, 1941. The Leo Baeck Institute, as part of its DigiBaeck project, has digitized the Franz Werfel Family Correspondence (AR 6225). This small collection documents the 1940 escape from France to the United…