Guide to the Martha Lipmann Collection, 1927-1980
AR 6355
Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
Leo Baeck Institute
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, N.Y. 10011
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Center for Jewish History, Publisher.
Finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall on 2011-07-27. Finding aid written in English.
December 07, 2011 Links to digital objects added in Container List.
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Biographical Note
Erich Lipmann left Germany in the mid-1930s and obtained employment at Tremco in Cleveland, where he resided during the period covered in this collection. His mother Martha, born Martha Spier, lived in Hannover and the surrounding region. Some of the letterheads on the correspondence indicate that the family owned a woolens business in Hannover, M. M. Lipmann Wolle. Erich Lipmann had a brother, Hans Martin Lipmann, and a sister Gertrude, who married Max Stern and resided in Antwerp.
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The collection primarily contains correspondence with various United States government officials in the Senate and State Department, including Senator Theodore Francis Green, with lawyers, banks, travel agencies (including Paul Tausig and American Lloyd), and personal acquaintances regarding Erich Lipmann's efforts to secure passage for his mother Martha Lipmann out of Germany. After initial attempts to obtain a visa for travel directly to the United States failed in 1938-1940, Lipmann focused instead on efforts to transport his mother to Cuba via France or Portugal. He also worked to secure visas for the family of his sister Gertrude Stern in Belgium and for his brother Hans Martin Lipmann to enter the United States. Some documents, including two affidavits from 1938 and 1939, are also present in the collection and are filed with the correspondence.
The earlier correspondence from 1936-1938 with William Dodd and others appears to concern the emigration and settlement of some other individuals, including Erich Lipmann himself.
There are also two family photographs from the 1920s, and the final folder contains some correspondence between Lucy Davidowitz and Charles Sydnor, although the relation between these materials and the rest of the collection is unclear.
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- Correspondence is arranged approximately in chronogogical order. Some documents associated with the correspondence are also filed in this chronological arrangement.
Access and Use
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Access Points
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
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Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Martha Lipman Collection; AR 6355; box number; folder number; Leo Baeck Institute.
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The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Follow the links to access the digitized materials.
Container list: | |||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence and documents | 1936-1938 |
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence and documents | 1939-1940 |
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence and documents | 1941-1942 |
| 1 | 4 | Family photographs | 1927-1929 |
| 1 | 5 | Synagogue bulletin and correspondence | 1978-1980 |