Ralph Bettelheim Collection
Scope and Content Note
The Ralph Bettelheim Collection includes materials documenting Ralph Bettelheim’s involvement with the Committee for Fair Play in Sports working towards boycotting the Olympic Games in Germany in 1936 and genealogical materials on the Bettelheim family.
Included in the collection are correspondence, brochures, and clippings, copies of vital documents, genealogical charts and trees, and photographs.
There are no personal materials other then correspondence regarding to Ralph Bettelheim’s genealogical research and no materials related to his professional activities.
Dates
- Creation: 1940s-2002
Creator
- Bettelheim, Judith, 1944- (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in English and German.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
Biographical Note
Ralph W. Bettelheim was born on December 26, 1907, in Germany.
He immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Between 1935 and 1936 he was closely associated with the Committee on Fair Play trying to organize a boycott of the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany.
From 1943 to 1945 he was economic advisor to the Commanding General, Office of General Purchasing at Supreme Headquarters. Later Ralph Bettelheim became head of the Asia Desk at the New York State Department of Commerce.
Ralph Bettelheim died in 1993.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
The Ralph Bettelheim Collection includes materials documenting Ralph Bettelheim’s involvement with the Committee for Fair Play in Sports working towards boycotting the Olympic Games in Germany in 1936 and genealogical materials on the Bettelheim family. Included in the collection are correspondence, brochures, and clippings, copies of vital documents, genealogical charts and family trees.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series:
Separated Material
Screenplay Sunshine removed to the LBI Library.
Subject
- Bettelheim, Ralph, 1907-1993 (Person)
- Committee on Fair Play in Sports (Organization)
- Bettelheim family (Family)
- Olympic Games (11th ) (Location of meeting: Berlin, Germany). Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1936 :.) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Ralph Bettelheim Collection 1940s-2002 AR 25359
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Yakov Illich Sklar
- Date
- © 2011
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- as part of the Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative, made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation
Revision Statements
- August 15, 2012 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
