Werner Weinberg Collection

This collection documents the personal lives of Werner Weinberg’s immediate family and his in-laws, Hans and Rosa Halberstadt, as well Weinberg’s efforts to preserve the memory of the German Jews and the Jews of his hometown Rheda in particular as well as a limited amount of materials documenting his professional activities as a writer. This collection consists of brochures, clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, official documents, off-prints, and photographs.

The bulk of the personal materials consists of correspondence between Werner Weinberg and his wife Lisl, née Halberstadt, and of Hans Halberstadt and his wife Rosa, née Schwarz. Most of the letters between Hans and Rosa Halberstadt date between 1939 and 1942; during this period Hans Halberstadt was imprisoned at the Camp des Milles. Other personal materials include diaries, most notably a diary written by Werner Weinberg in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation, notebooks, financial, vital, and immigration documents, and documents dealing with Lisl and Werner Weinberg’s imprisonment in various camps.

Subject files provide us with an insight into Werner Weinberg’s efforts to preserve the memory of the German Jews and of the Jews of Rheda in particular. Most of the materials in this section include materials documenting Weinberg’s involvement with a variety of memorial projects or document his activities as a writer.

Other materials in this section include writings by authors other then Weinberg that deal with a range of topics dealing with various topics in the lives of Jews. Additionally, there are some printed materials about or by Werner Weinberg and two family scrapbooks.

There are no materials related to Werner Weinberg’s teaching at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Neither are there any documents related to his works in the field of Hebrew orthography or Hebrew literature and poetry.