Margo Wolff Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the life and work of journalist Margo Wolff. It contains personal papers, correspondence (including a 1953 letter in the Addenda by writer Walter Meckauer to Wolff), articles, clippings, and diaries.
The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Hertha Pauli, Hugo Doeblin, Alfred Doeblin, Hanna Bertholet, Reuben Hecht, Anne Frank, Hedy Hevar, Herald Isenstein, Max Gruenewald, and Walter Meckauer.
Dates
- Creation: 1904-1990
Language of Materials
The collection is in English, German, and Hebrew.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Boxes 1-6 of the collection are microfilmed - use MF 482 (17 reels). (Boxes 7-8 are not microfilmed.)
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
Biographical Note
Margo Wolf was born in Stettin in 1909. She worked as a journalist in Berlin. After 1933, she emigrated to France, where she was arrested and sent to Gurs. She managed to escape to Marseilles, where she helped groups of children to escape to Switzerland and Spain. After the war, she worked as a journalist for Maccabi (later Juedische Rundschau) and was sent to the Zionist Congress in Basel in 1946. In 1949 she emigrated to New York. She received an M.A. degree from the New School for a thesis about youth aliyah in 1951. She worked for the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau and visited Germany frequently to lecture. In 1986 she published her memoirs of her time in Marseilles: "The boys of Mon Repos; the rescue operation 'Sesame' from Vichy France". She also translated David Ben-Gurion's memoirs. She was married to Hugo Doeblin. She died in Miami in 1990.
Extent
6.75 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection documents the life and work of journalist Margo Wolff. It contains personal papers, correspondence (including a 1953 letter in the Addenda by writer Walter Meckauer to Wolff), articles, clippings, and diaries.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 8 boxes.
- Box 1: Correspondence, Clippings, 1947-1990
- Box 2: Correspondence, Financial Papers, Legal Documents, Publications, Periodicals, Clippings, undated, 1904-1989
- Box 3: Financial Materials, Diaries, Notebooks, Correspondence, Clippings, Miscellaneous, undated, 1932-1989
- Box 4: Diaries, Notebooks, Address Books, Correspondence, Documents, Articles, Reports, undated, 1934-1983
- Box 5: Diaries, Correspondence, Periodicals, Articles, Newspaper Clippings; Addenda, undated, 1944-1964
- Box 6: Addenda: Papers, Correspondence, Articles, Poetry, Photos, Programs, Clippings, undated, 1941-1990
Microfilm
Boxes 1-6 of the collection are available on 17 reels of microfilm (MF 482).
- Reel 1: 1/1 - 1/5
- Reel 2: 1/6 - 1/24
- Reel 3: 1/25 - 1/29
- Reel 4: 2/1 - 2/11
- Reel 5: 2/12 - 2/20
- Reel 6: 2/21 - 2/35; 3/1 - 3/4
- Reel 7: 3/5 - 3/20
- Reel 8: 3/21 - 3/28
- Reel 9: 3/29 - 3/30
- Reel 10: 4/1 - 4/4
- Reel 11: 4/5 - 4/8
- Reel 12: 4/9 - 4/18
- Reel 13: 4/19 - 4/20; 5/1 - 5/10
- Reel 14: 5/11 - 5/27
- Reel 15: 5/28 - 5/35; 6/1 - 6/2
- Reel 16: 6/3 - 6/18
- Reel 17: 6/19 - 6/36
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the Photograph Collection.
Medals and silver coins have been removed to the Art and Objects Collection.
Audiovisual materials have been removed to the A/V Collection.
Subject
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 (Person)
- Wolff, Margo, 1909-1990 (Person)
- Gurs (Concentration camp) (Organization)
- Title
- Margo Wolff Collection, 1904-1990 AR 1470 / MF 482
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- October 24, 2013 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
