Elisabeth Lunau Collection
Language: ger
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Concentration camps; Jews; Genealogy; Gurs (Concentration camp); Emigration and immigration; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: The Elisabeth Lunau Collection documents Elisabeth Lunaus personal life and her research on her father, Ludwig Marum, a Minister in the Weimer Republic and a prominent figure in the Socialist movement; the collection also documents Elisabeth Lunaus research on her familys genealogy. The collection consists of correspondence, vital-, immigration-, and financial documents, photographs, lists, genealogical tables, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials.
Notes: Collection is microfilmed, please use MF 937.

Closed pending microfilming

Copies require permission of donor, see Deed of Gift

Elizabeth Lunau, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 (via Mrs. Susanne Schrag), 1997

Dominique Avery, 1998 (19 feet of Addenda)

Suzan Wynne 20060817 LBIAR-2006-80

Elisabeth Lunau was born in 1910, the daughter of Ludwig Marum. In 1936, Elisabeth Lunau emigrated to France and was interned in the camps of Hyères and Gurs. In 1941, she emigrated with her mother and her husband Heinz Lunau to New York, where she became executive housekeeper at a number of Manhattan hotels. She was the author of two books: 'Ludwig Marum. Briefe aus dem Konzenrationslager Kislau', a collection of her father's letters, and 'Auf der Flucht in Frankreich : "Boches ici, juifs là-bas" - der Briefwechsel einer deutschen Familie im Exil 19391942', a collection of her and her relatives' letters. Elisabeth Lunau died in New York on June 5th, 1998.

Elisabeth Lunau's father, Ludwig Marum was a member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) and 1914-1928 of the Landtag of Baden, serving as Minister of Justice from 1918 to 1919. Marum was a member of the Reichstag from 1928 until 1933. On May 16, 1933 he was arrested and deported to Kislau concentration camp, where he was murdered on March 29, 1934.

German

English

French

Finding aid available online

See also Elisabeth Marum-Lunau: Auf der Flucht in Frankreich : "Boches ici, juifs la-bas" : der Briefwechsel einer deutschen Familie im Exil 1939-1942 (LBI library st 927)

21-Jul-1992, fm, unaccessioned

7-Jan-1993, fm

1-Mar-1994, fm, addenda unaccessioned

11-Nov-1994, dl

7-Apr-1995, dl (needs further accessioning)

9-May-1995, dl

16-May-1995, dl

30-Jun-1995, dl

27-Feb-1996, dl

31-May-1996, dl

24-Jan-1997, dl

6-Mar-1997, dl

25-Apr-1997, dl

4-Sep-1997, dl

30-Oct-1998, dl

16-Mar-1999, fm

3/5/2003 vv (added information about 19 feet of addenda, was stored in warehouse, also entry under ID 50000; 5 feet are books only)

2/15/2005 vv (deleted old locations A 40/1, S 39/3, A 15/3, B 32/2; Jerry Lindenstraus has started processing the collection).

20081030 ht: bib. record changed to refelect the finding aid by YS

20081104ea, sent to Reno for microfilming

20081231ea, added 094 MF, IMA.

2009114ms, moved location to the 12th floor

2009126ms, removed restriction

20090128ea, added reels 13-19 to 094 and IMA.

20090130ea, added restriction to 094, because Positives are not yet back.

20090209ea, removed restriction, added 506, BCN.

Seligmann ;Homburger ;Albersweiler ; Heinz Schmitt, Geschichte und Schicksal des Karlsruher Judentums, 1965; Martha and Henry Freudenberger ; Joseph Werner ; Lutz Coppermann (Louis Coppee) ; Franz Blum ; Mann family; Marum family; Pfalz; Bernhard Witkop; Michelfeld ; S. Weissmann and Artur Trautmann ; Monika Pohl ; "Die Razzien in Marseille 1943 und die Propagandaphotographie der Deutschen Wehrmacht" (Ahlrich Meyer); article by Berthold Rosenthal on Jews from Baden (1927); Mary Rosenberg ; Loeb family and Kirchheim ; Schleifer, Fritz ; Schwesig, Karl ; Nussbaum, Felix ; Breuer, Leo ; Barosin, Jacob ; Frey, Varian ; Wachenheim, Hedwig ; Schrag, Paul, Suzie ; Zerner, Elizabeth ; Loeb, Lotte ; Lunau, Heinz ; Mann, Francis ; Trautmann, Artur ; Weissmann, S.

Standisch, Myles

Adams, Mildred

Mennen, Anneliese

Klotz, Anneliese