Guide to the Norbert Troller Collection, 1900-1993
AR 7268 / MF 500
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Creator: | Troller,
Norbert, 1896-1981 |
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Title: | Norbert Troller
Collection |
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Dates: | 1900-1993 |
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Abstract: | Extensive autobiographical manuscript by Troller, with
illustrations and other supporting material, discussing his family and community,
his early life, and his experiences during and after the Holocaust. |
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Languages: | This collection is in German, English,
Czech. |
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Quantity: | 7 linear feet |
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Identification: | AR 7268 / MF 500 |
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Repository: | Leo Baeck Institute Archives |
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Born in Bruenn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czechoslovakia) in 1896, Norbert Troller
served as a soldier in World War I, spending time as a prisoner-of-war in Italy.
After the war he studied architecture in Brno and Vienna and worked as an architect
in Brno until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He was deported to
Theresienstadt in 1942, where he worked as an architect for the Jewish
self-adminstration of the camp, and produced works of art as well. In 1944 he was
imprisoned by the Gestapo, and was sent to Auschwitz later that year. After
liberation, he lived briefly in Cracow, and then reopened his architectural business
in Prague and Brno. He emigrated to the United States in 1948 and worked for the
National Jewish Welfare Board in New York designing Jewish community centers, before
opening his own practice. He died in 1981.
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Extensive autobiographical manuscript by Troller, with illustrations and other
supporting material, discussing his family and community, his early life, and his
experiences during and after the Holocaust.
Material relating to Troller's career as an architect, including educational
documents, professional papers, clippings, and blueprints.
Extensive photograph collection documenting Troller's life and work in Czechoslovakia
and the United States, including photos of buildings designed by him in both
countries; photocopies of artwork by Troller, many from his time at Theresienstadt,
including items from the Leo Baeck Institute's art collection.
Material relating to an exhibit of Troller's work at the Yeshiva University Museum in
1982.
See inventory list.
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- Box LIST (Overview):
- Box 1. MEMOIR MANUSCRIPTS; GENEALOGY; DRAWINGS;PHOTOS; DOCUMENTS(COPIES);
BROCHURES; NOTES; CLIPPINGS; CURRENT INVENTORY AND OLD Box LISTS; undated, 1724,
c.1900-1998
- Box 2. MANUSCRIPTS; DRAWINGS; CAPTIONS; PHOTOS; CORRESPONDENCE; POST CARDS;
ART WORK; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Box LISTS, ETC.; undated, c1900-1982
- Box 3. PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENTS; MEMOIR MANUSCRIPTS;
REFERENCES; CORRESPONDENCE; PHOTOS; ARTWORK; NOTES; CLIPPINGS; OLD Box LISTS;
undated, c1900-c1982
- Box 4. MANUSCRIPTS, DRAFTS; SPECIFICATIONS; PHOTOS; ARTWORK; CLIPPINGS; Box
LISTS; ETC.; undated, c1900-1993
- Box 5. ARCHITECT PLANS AND BLUEPRINTS; ALSO MAP; U.S.A. AND CANADA; 1949-1958
(OSL 23)
- Box 6. STAMMBAUM; c1945; ARCHITECT PLANS AND BLUEPRINTS; U.S.A.; 1950-1957
(OSL 24)
- Box 7. Clippings (concentration camp); ARCHITECT PLANS AND BLUEPRINTS; U.S.A.;
undated, 1944-c.1980 (OS 45)
- ADDENDA (not microfilmed); undated, 1919-1993
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Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized
materials.
Collection is microfilmed, use MF 500 (Addenda not microfilmed).
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.
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
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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.
Click on a subject to search that term in the Center's catalog.
Individuals:
Subjects:
- Architecture,
commercial
- Architecture,
residential
- Archival
Materials
- Artwork
- Auschwitz
(Concentration or internment camps)
- Austria
- Bittner,
Oscar
- Bruenn
- Canada
- Concentration or
internment camps
- Czechoslovakia
- Emigration and
immigration -- after 1945 -- USA
- Grapic Arts
- Holocaust
- Holocaust
survivors
- Italy
- Manuscripts
- Memoirs
- Military service --
World War, 1914-1918
- New England
- New York
(City)
- Photographs
- Prague
- Professions and
occupations -- architects
- Professions and
occupations -- artists
- Public
welfare
- Synagogue
architecture
- Theresienstadt
(Concentration or internment camps)
- Troller,
Cilli
- Troller,
Ludwig
- Troller, Norbert,
1900-1984
- Vienna
- World War,
1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918 --
prisoners of war
- Yeshiva
University
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The art collection of the LBI also has an extensive collection of artwork of
Troller's from his time in Theresienstadt.
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Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
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Collection is available on 9 reels of microfilm (MF 500).
- Reel 1: 1/0 - 1/15
- Reel 2: 1/16 - 1/27
- Reel 3: 1/28 - 2/11
- Reel 4: 2/12 - 2/35
- Reel 5: 2/36 - 3/13
- Reel 6: 3/14 - 3/38
- Reel 7: 4/1 - 4/16
- Reel 8: 4/17 - 4/43
- Reel 9: 5/1 - 7/13
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Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Norbert Troller Collection; AR 7268; box
number; folder number; Leo Baeck Institute.
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See inventory list
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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.
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1 | 0 | Current Inventory and Description | 1998 |
1 | 1 | Box List(Old), Box 1 | c.1982 |
1 | 2 | Manuscript regarding Moravia Jewish Communities; Also Document
Xeroxes, etc. (1/1) | 1724, 1930-1971 |
1 | 3 | Family Tree & Genealogy Material (1/2) [NOTE: Oversize
STAMMBAUM moved to 6/8] | c.1900+ |
1 | 4 | Memoirs: "EARLY YOUTH IN BRNO; 1900-1908" (1/3) | 1977-1979 |
1 | 5 | Photos(Augsburg ?); Misc. Artwork (1/4) | undated |
1 | 6 | Duplicate Drawings (1/5) | undated |
1 | 7 | Autobiographical Manuscript regarding World War I;
Handwritten;1914-1919; also 2 Photos; N.D. (1/6) | undated, 1914-1919 |
1 | 8 | Maps & Brochures; Poland, Czech; [Brno Map moved to
6/8](1/7) | c.1960-1963 |
1 | 9 | Memoir Notes, Synopsis; Nazi Period, 1933-1944 (1/8) | c.1960s |
1 | 10 | Memoir of Mother Cilli:"Life & People in Brno"
(1/9) | undated, 1933+ |
1 | 11 | Notes & Memoirs [1933]; some Photos, etc.; N.D.
(1/10) | undated, 1933 |
1 | 12 | Notes, Addenda, etc. (1/11) | c.1986 |
1 | 13 | Box List(Old), Box 2 | c.1982 |
1 | 14 | Manuscript & Copies; "Transports" (2/1) | undated |
1 | 15 | Manuscript & Synopsis;"Brno-Terezin" (2/2) | c.1941-1944 |
1 | 16 | Manuscript, Handwritten;"Terezin Inside 1942-1945"
(2/3) | undated |
1 | 17 | Memoir: "A Convict in the 'Little Fortress'; Terezin
(2/4) | undated |
1 | 18 | Misc. Handwritten Notes regarding Terezin (2/5) | undated |
1 | 19 | Judenstein Photostats & copies of Drawings of Individual
Jobs at Terezin (2/6) | 1939-1945 |
1 | 20 | Memoir Manuscripts: "Encounters & Happenings; 1941-1945";
in German (2/7) | undated |
1 | 21 | Auschwitz Layout & Terezin; Illustrations, Sketches, Post
Cards, Copies (2/8) | 1939-1945 |
1 | 22 | Terezin: Children of Terezin; Religious Life; Feeding; misc.
Handwritten Drafts (2/9) | 1942-1944 |
1 | 23 | Memoir: "Travel; Little Fortress, Prague, Brno, Breslau to
Auschwitz; September 1944"; Handwritten (2/10) | 1978 |
1 | 24 | Box List(Old), Box 3 | c.1982 |
1 | 25 | Manuscript: "Auschwitz 1944-1945"; Handwritten to p.134
(3/1a1) | 1979 |
1 | 26 | Ms: "Auschwitz 1944-1945"; Handwritten; pp. 135+
(3/1a2) | 1979 |
1 | 27 | Ms: "Auschwitz 1944-1945"; Typed (3/1b) | 1979 |
1 | 28 | Ms: "Krakau; December 1944-May 1945"; First Version; Handscript
& Typed (3/2) | undated |
1 | 29 | Ms: "Krakau-Polen December 1944-May 1945; Manuscript, Typed
(3/3) | undated |
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2 | 1 | Memoir: "Die Erste Hegira...Ende Januar 1945"; pp. 1-48;
(3/4a) | undated |
2 | 2 | Memoir: "The Miraculous Story of the Rediscovery of my 300
Drawings...; 1946"(3/4a) | undated |
2 | 3 | Box List(Old), Box 4 | c.1982 |
2 | 4 | Manuscript: "Holocaust 1941-1945"; English; Typed, Synopsis
(4/1) | undated |
2 | 5 | Clippings: Trial of Stephan Rojko (4/2) | 1963 |
2 | 6 | Clippings: regarding Holocaust, & Draft Letter to
International Herald Tribune (4/3) | 1978-1981 |
2 | 7 | Manuscript: "Heimkehr-Die 2te Hegira"; Typed; German
(4/4) | undated |
2 | 8 | Memoir; "Krakau-Brno"; Handwritten Manuscript; p. 1-50
(4/6) | undated |
2 | 9 | Memoir Manuscript: "Ruechmarsch...Warensuche"; p. 51-214
(4/7) | undated |
2 | 10 | Memoir ms; p. 215+ | undated |
2 | 11 | Memoir ms: "America, Oh America... 1943-1945; 120p.
(4/8) | undated |
2 | 12 | Box List(Old), Box 5 | c.1982 |
2 | 13 | Correspondence, Resume, etc. (5/1) | 1979 |
2 | 14 | Agreement with Jewish Museum (5/2) | 1979 |
2 | 15 | Correspondence regarding Exhibits (5/3) | 1977-1981 |
2 | 16 | Correspondence regarding Exhibits, Israel (5/4) | 1979-1981 |
2 | 17 | Correspondence regarding Audio-Visual & TV Projects
(5/5) | 1980-1981 |
2 | 18 | Correspondence, Time-Life & Other Periodicals
(5/6) | 1979-1980 |
2 | 19 | Correspondence; Bertha Klausner (Literary Agent)
(5/7) | 1979-1981 |
2 | 20 | Correspondence: Ruth Davis(Interviewer) (5/8) | 1975-1981 |
2 | 21 | Ruth Davis Interview-Hochwald (5/9) | Jan. 1976 |
2 | 22 | Correspondence; International Council of Czech Jews
(5/10) | 1980-1981 |
2 | 23 | Box List(Old), Box 6 | c.1982 |
2 | 24 | Drawings, Xerox (6/1) | 1915-1918 |
2 | 25 | Drawings, photocopies, (World War I) (6/2) | 1914-1918 |
2 | 26 | Water Colors, Black & White Xeroxes (6/3) | c.1914-1918 |
2 | 27 | Drawings, Xerox (6/4) | c.1918-1919 |
2 | 28 | Drawings; Black & White, Color, Xeroxes; Also Drawings,
Xerox (6/5) | c.1940-1944 |
2 | 29 | Drawings, Terezin; water color, Xerox (6/6) | c.1942-1943 |
2 | 30 | Drawings, etc.; Xerox (6/7) | c.1942-1952 |
2 | 31 | Thirty-Nine(39) Prints from Terezin, Xerox 1942-1944 (6/8) 2/32
Drawings, Xerox; Paris, Wales,Florence, Cape Cod; N.D. (6/9) | undated, 1942-1944 |
2 | 33 | Xeroxes; Post Cards, Maps, Clippings; Terezin; Auschwitz
(6/10) | 1944+ |
2 | 34 | Correspondence (6/11) | 1945 |
2 | 35 | Life Magazine: Middle East... (7/1) | 1967 |
2 | 36 | Life Magazine : Moon Landing (7/2) | 1969 |
2 | 37 | Life Magazine: Miscellany (7/3) | 1965-1970 |
2 | 38 | Box List(Old), Box 8 | c1982 |
2 | 39 | Art Books: Concentration Camps | 1978 |
2 | 40 | Yeshiva University Museum Exhibit; Correspondence, etc.
(8/1) | 1958-1981 |
2 | 41 | Yeshiva University Exhibit; Correspondence, clippings, etc.
(8/2) | 1981 |
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3 | 1 | Memoirs, Drawings; Photocopies; Also Photos & Post Cards
(8/3) | undated |
3 | 2 | Youth: Drawings, Written Captions; Photocopies (8/4) | undated |
3 | 3 | "Das Noble Spiesezimmer"; Handwritten Manuscript; Drawing of
Room; Photocopies regarding Bruenn-Zeile 53 (8/5) | c.1900 |
3 | 4 | Original Notes & Captions for Troller Drawings Before
Museum Selection, Correspondence (8/6) | 1980 |
3 | 5 | Terezin Barracks: Drawings, Captions; Photocopies; "Die
Kasernen"; Handwritten Text in German (8/7) | undated |
3 | 6 | Terezin Entertainment: Captions & Drawings; Photocopies
(8/8) | 1942-1943 |
3 | 7 | " Health Care: Captions, Drawings; Photocopies; Handwritten
Manuscript in German (8/9) | 1942-1943 |
3 | 8 | Curriculum Vita; Handwritten (8/10) | 1981 |
3 | 9 | Incomplete lists of Captions; Photocopies (8/11) | undated |
3 | 10 | Yeshiva University Museum Exhibit: Plan, Sections, Elevators
(8/12) [Oversize Folded Pages to 7/11] | c.1980 |
3 | 11 | "Rediscovery of My Drawings"; Handwritten Manuscript &
Photocopy (8/13) | c.1979 |
3 | 12 | "A Convict in the Little Fortress" & Epilogue Handwritten
Manuscript (8/14) | c.1944 |
3 | 13 | "The Fortress Town of Terezin"; Handwritten Manuscript &
Captions (8/15) | undated |
3 | 14 | Box List(Old), Box 9 | c.1982 |
3 | 15 | Correspondence, Letters of Reference (9/1) | 1924-1958 |
3 | 16 | New York State Architect License, etc.; Also References
(9/2) | 1946-1952 |
3 | 17 | Personal Documents (9/3) | 1908-1965 |
3 | 18 | Sketchbooks; Drawings, & Miscellaneous Notes
(9/4) | 1942+ |
3 | 19 | Box List(Old); Box 10 | c1982 |
3 | 20 | Photos, Postcards (10/1) | undated |
3 | 21 | Photo Album (10/2) | undated |
3 | 22 | Photos (10/3) | c.1930s |
3 | 23 | Photos, Post Cards (10/4) | undated |
3 | 24 | Photos & Album (10/5) | c.1930s |
3 | 25 | Photos; Clipping (10/6) | c.1932 |
3 | 26 | Art & Photo Books; 3 Volumes (10/7) | 1930-1935 |
3 | 27 | Old Folders & Labels (10/8) | c.1982 |
3 | 28 | Box List(Old), Box 11 | c.1982 |
3 | 29 | Photos, Post Cards (11/1) | c.1940s |
3 | 30 | Photos & Album; Czechoslovakia (11/2) | c.1930s-1940s |
3 | 31 | Photos; Church Interiors (11/3) | undated |
3 | 32 | Photos; Apartment Interiors (11/4) | c.1950 |
3 | 33 | Correspondence, Clippings (11/5) | 1932, 1934, 1937 |
3 | 34 | Clippings (11/6) | 1940s |
3 | 35 | Photos; Furniture, etc. (11/7) | c.1922-1939 |
3 | 36 | Photos; Czech Houses; Pre-1942 (11/8) | c.1940s-1949 |
3 | 37 | Photos; Czechoslovakia; Building Interiors (11/8) | 1949 |
3 | 38 | Photos; Construction Sites (11/9) | 1947-1948 |
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Scope and Content:All oversized materials from old Box 14 (between 4/21 and 4/22) and old Box
15 (between 4/24 and 4/25) transferred to Boxes 5-7. |
4 | 1 | Photos; Brno Department Store, including Construction
(11/10) | undated, c.1948-1949 |
4 | 2 | Old Folder Cover Listings (11/11) | c.1950 |
4 | 3 | Box List(Old); Box 12 | c.1982 |
4 | 4 | Synagogue & Jewish Community Centers: Photo including
Artist Drawings, Lists, Biography, Reference, Etc.; (12/1) | c.1948-1981 |
4 | 5 | Chicago Tribune Competition: Miscellaneous Papers, Clippings,
& Photo (12/2) | 1949-1950 |
4 | 6 | Connecticut Homes: Photos, Album; Etc (12/3) | c.1953 |
4 | 7 | Lake Oscawana (Peekskill, NY): House; Plans, Photos; Etc
(12/4) | 1961 |
4 | 8 | Jewish Welfare Board Building Bureau Standards; Blueprints
(12/5) | 1949-1955 |
4 | 9 | Building Standards; Blueprint & Hand-drawn
(12/6) | c.1950s |
4 | 10 | Manhattan Kindergarden-Nursery School: Plans; Portfolio; Photos;
Etc. (12/7) | c.1959 |
4 | 11 | Box List(Old); Box 13 | c.1982 |
4 | 12 | Architecture: Adult Education (13/1) | undated |
4 | 13 | Springfield, MA: J.C.C.: Correspondence; Etc. [Blueprints to 7/5]
(13/2) | 1949-1953 |
4 | 14 | Tucson, AZ: J.C.C.: Correspondence; Etc. [Blueprints to 5/2]
(13/3) | 1953-1956 |
4 | 15 | Space Budget Types 'A & B': Specifications; Etc.
(13/4) | c.1955 |
4 | 16 | Syracuse, NY: J.C.C.: Correspondence, Etc. [Blueprints to 6/2]
(13/5) | 1948-1956 |
4 | 17 | National Council YMCA: Specifications; Photocopies
(13/6) | undated |
4 | 18 | Savannah, GA: J.E.A. Community Building; Specifications;
Correspondence; Etc. [Map, etc. to 5/4] (13/7) | 1949-1956 |
4 | 19 | YMHA, YWHA: Community Centers; Specifications, Etc.
(13/8) | 1957 |
4 | 20 | J.W.B. Yearbook; Vol. VI (13/9) | 1955-1956 |
4 | 21 | N.J.W.B.(NY): 41st Conference Book (13/10) | 1957 |
4 | 22 | J.C.C. Nursery Schools: Specifications (15/1) | 1956 |
4 | 23 | Sports Arenas Standards & Specs. (15/2) | 1944 |
4 | 24 | New York City; "Directory of Day Care Services"
(15/3) | 1962 |
4 | 25 | Lake Oscawana: House(s); Photos (16/1) | 1960-1963 |
4 | 26 | Grand Central; Parker House; Rogers House; Sam Flax; Photos
(16/2) | 1967, 1974, 1976-1977 |
4 | 27 | Captions to all Drawings; Spare Sets (2) (17/1) | undated |
4 | 28 | Numbers & Captions to all Exhibited Drawings
(17/2) | Mar. 1981 |
4 | 29 | "Das Noble Speisezimmer"; Bruenn-Zeile 53 (17/3) | c.1900 |
4 | 30 | Speech Introducing Terezin Exhibit (17/4) | undated |
4 | 31 | Synopsis; "The Holocaust 1941-1945" (17/5) | 1979 |
4 | 32 | "A Convict in the 'Little Fortress' Near Terezin-Bohemia;
June-September 1944"; English (17/6) | undated |
4 | 33 | "Krakau; December 1944-May 1945"; German (17/7) | undated |
4 | 34 | "Discovery of My Drawings After The War"; English; Typed
& Handwritten (Xerox) (17/8) | 1946s |
4 | 35 | "Der Judenstern": Handwritten; & "Die Maler Affaire von
Theresienstadt"; Typed (17/9) | c.1978 |
4 | 36 | "First Hegira: Auschwitz-Krakow; January 1945"; German
(17/10) | undated |
4 | 37 | "Auschwitz": Final Draft; German; Typed (17/11) | undated |
4 | 38 | "Little Fortress"; Version I (17/12) | undated |
4 | 39 | "Little Fortress"; Complete Version (17/13) | undated |
4 | 40 | "Transports"; Etc.; Handwritten (17/14) | undated |
4 | 41 | "Krakau"; Typed Draft; German (17/15) | undated |
4 | 42 | "Fruehe Jugend bis Zum Tode Meines Vaters"; Typed Draft; German
(17/16) | undated |
4 | 43 | Addenda; 'ATA Source'; Serial Periodical; No. 11
(17/17) | Summer 1993 |
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(OS 114 and OS 115) | | Addenda: Graphic art including ex-libris, ball invitations, and
collection of Season's Greetings cards for Norbert Troller's personal
use. | undated, 1919-1948 |
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