Collection 06: Enge family - correspondence, 1937, 1939-1979. Includes family photographs.

MLMSS 6757

sub-fonds

1937, 1939-1979

Textual Records, Photographs

402640

4 boxes - 0.74 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Photographs

Max Cahn, a German Jew, and his christian wife Tilly (nee Schulze) lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany with their six children Ruth, Walter, Otto, Ernst, Peter and Hans.
In 1939, Ruth migrated to Australia as a refugee. Walter, his wife Gretl, and Otto migrated to England. The remainder of the Cahn family survived the war in Germany. Max, forced to wear the yellow star, survived a brief imprisonment in Buchenwald.
The family, though separated, maintained a close and meaningful correspondence throughout their lives, especially Ruth with her parents and brother Walter. The collection documents their close relationships, the births of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, mutual visits, the deaths of Max in 1967 and Ernst in 1971. Events in Germany following the war are discussed in particular post-War denazification and compensation for Jews.

1937, 1939-1949; Correspondence and photographs (Call No.: MLMSS 6757 Box 1)
1950-1958; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 6757 Box 2)
1959-1968; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 6757 Box 3)
1969-1979; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 6757 Box 4)

Chronological

German, English, Dutch