Hans Froehlich Collection
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Jewish college teachers; Jewish lawyers; Social service; Emigration and immigration; Reparations; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )
Description: This collection contains the papers of Hans Froehlich, a lawyer and later social worker. A dominant topic throughout the collection is the experience of prosecution and death of loved ones, and, connected with that, the lifelong struggle for restitution and compensation. At the same time, his professional life as a social worker as well as his personal interests and hobbies are reflected in the correspondence, printed material and personal writing found in the collection.
Notes: Collection is microfilmed, please use MF 790.

David R. Bomberger 20070215 LBIAR-2007-41

David R. Bomberger 20070621 LBIAR-2007-120

David R. Bomberger 20071009 LBIAR-2007-168

David R. Bomberger 20071016 LBIAR-2007-174

David R. Bomberger 20080516 LBIAR-2008-74

David R. Bomberger 20100224 LBIAR-2010-14

Dr. Hans David Froehlich was born on August 31, 1895 in Beuthen, Oberschlesien (Bytom, Poland) to the pharmacist Bernhard and his wife Rosa Fröhlich. In 1899, the family moved to Munich where Hans went to Gymnasium, graduating in 1914. After serving in WWI from 1914 until 1918, he studied law in Munich and acquired his doctoral degree at the University in Erlangen in 1925. On August 11, 1921 he married Margarethe Jacoby, usually referred to as Grete. After several years of practicing law in Munich, Hans Froehlich and his wife left Nazi Germany for Italy in 1936 and from there immigrated to the United States in 1939. Having settled in New York City, he acquired a Master in Social Work and taught at Hunter College. During the Nazi rule, his parents committed suicide by poison, while his sister Gertrud, with the help of Josef Sebastian Cammerer, went into hiding in Tutzing near Munich where she died on February 11, 1942. - His wife faced emotional problems and died on July 19, 1977. Hans Froehlich suffered from diabetes, which increasingly disabled him. He moved to the Margaret Tietz Nursing Home, where he died in 1979 (?). He is buried in Ridgewood, Queens.

English; German

French

Italian

Finding Aid available online

20070215 ht (books received; letters and documents pending. Transferred to the LBI Library: Almanach des Schocken Verlags, 5697 (1936/7) and 5698 (1937/38); Glaubens- und Pflichtenlehre fuer Israelitische Schulen, 1904; Der Babylonische Talmud, [1924]; Aus dem Buch der Buecher - Feld-Bibel [191?].

20070621 ht (Addenda 1; photo album to Photo collection; WWI decorations to Art and Objects)

20071009 ht; addenda 2: documents in bad condition; needs work before processing can begin

20080102 ht; Bib. record changed to reflect the finding aid

20080429 ea, (added LBIJMB number; added MF)

20080516 ht, Addenda 4: Private and professional correspondence; photographs; ephemera pertaining to Hans Froehlich. - The addenda is NOT microfilmed and added to Unprocessed Addenda. Approx. 6 linear ft.

20080805 ht: 10 boxes original collection sent to the CJH Preservation Lab for overall preservation

20090915ms, boxes 11-17 closed for microfilming at Praxess

20091223ea, added microfilm format for reels 33-49

20091226ms, original material reshelved on 12th floor, location changed

20100224 ht: addenda with 1 ft. of pictures added to 12th floor location

'Ein Briefwechsel', Privatdruck, Muenchen 1959, describing the life of Josef Sebastian Cammerer and Froehlich's sister, here called Teja. Wilhelmsgymnasium . 'Die glaeserne Wand'