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Descriptive Summary
Creator:	Dagobert Broh
Title:	Broh Family Collection
Dates:	1902 - 2000
Dates:	bulk 1975 - 1998
Abstract:	This collection contains photographs, correspondence and personal papers of members of the Broh Family.
Languages:	The collection is in English, German, French, Hebrew, Icelandic and Hungarian.
Quantity:	3.5 linear feet
Identification:	AR 25018
Repository:	Leo Baeck Institute

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Biographical Note

Dagobert Broh was born in Berlin, Germany on July 20, 1904. The following year, on October 7, 1905, his brother Manfred was born. Their parents, Georg Broh and Betty Broh née Lippmann, married in Berlin, Germany in 1902. Dagobert Broh immigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1937, following his brother Manfred, who had arrived there earlier in the decade. Dagobert had a career in the textile import/export business. After his retirement, he studied at Concordia University, earned a bachelor’s degree and eventually earned a Ph.D. in History in 1996, at the age of 92. Broh’s dissertation, “The History of the Newspaper Aufbau, 1934-1948”, examines the publication’s significance within the culture of German-speaking Jewish immigrants in the United States.

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Scope and Content Note

This collection contains photographs, correspondence and personal papers of members of the Broh Family. Series III contains snapshots of extended family members and many travel photographs. Some of these are landscape photographs. Personal correspondence among family members addresses the impact of the Germany’s National Socialist government and World War II on the extended family. Series IV contains correspondence among business associates and family members that was maintained for as many as three decades.

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Arrangement

This collection has been arranged into four series.

• Series I: Broh Family Papers, 1902 - 2000
• Series II: Manfred Broh, 1906 - 1947
• Series III: Photographs, 1902 - 1991
• Series IV: Dagobert Broh, 1937 - 1999

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

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.

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Access Points

• Individuals:

  • Broh, Dagobert, 1904-
  • Broh, Manfred, 1905-1991

• Subjects:

  • Canada -- Emigration and immigration
  • Doctoral students

• Document Types:

  • correspondence
  • financial records
  • photographs

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Related Material

The library of the Leo Baeck Institute has a copy of Dagobert Broh’s dissertation, “The History of the Newspaper Aufbau, 1934-1948”. The call number is E 184 J5 D75.

Leo Baeck Institute holds a digital audio file, “Interview with Ella Auerbach (née Levi)”. A transcript of Auerbach’s oral history is contained in “Oral history collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration”, call number AR 25385.

Leo Baeck Institute archives holds the “W. Guenther Plaut Collection”, call number AR 3899.

Leo Baeck Institute archives holds the Papers of George L. Mosse, call number AR 25137.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Broh Family Collection; AR 25018; box number; folder number; Leo Baeck Institute.

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Container List

Series I: Broh Family Papers, 1902 - 2000.
This series is in German and English.
4 folders.
Arrangement: Topical.
Scope and Content: This series contains poems commemorating weddings and birthdays, wedding announcements and correspondence among members of the Broh Family.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	letter of donation to LBI from Bram Freedman	2000 Mar 27
1	1	box inventories	2000 Nov 9
1	2	correspondence: Georg Broh to Betty Lippmann	1902, 1914
1	3	wedding and birthday poems	1902 - 195?
1	3	Hand written wedding ceremony poem to Betty Lippmann and Georg Broh from Dina Lippmann	1902?
1	3	typewritten wedding anniversary poem	195?
1	3	hand written birthday poem	190?
1	3	typewritten birthday poem to Frau Lippmann from Linna Berliner	194?
1	3	typeset text of song for wedding of Julius Broh and Edith Goldlust from (Bruder) Walter	1929 Aug 18
1	3	typeset marriage announcements from Betty Lippmann and Julius Broh to Leopold and Jenny Lippmann	1902 Jun 15
1	3	Wedding poem to Edith and Julius from Rudi	1929 Aug 18
1	4	correspondence from young Dago (Dagobert) and Fredy (Manfred) to mother	1912 - 1919

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Series II: Manfred Broh, 1906 - 1947.
This series is in German and English.
3 folders.
Arrangement: Topical.
Scope and Content: This series contains personal documents and correspondence of Manfred Broh.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	5	personal correspondence to Manfred (Fredy) Broh	1920 - 1940
1	5	Hirschfeld, Elizabeth	1932-1940
1	5	Praeger, Kaete	1932-1933
1	5	Broh, Walter (cousin)	1931-1940
1	5	Broh, Dagobert	1933-1934
1	5	to Fredy	1920
1	6	personal correspondence to Fredy Broh from Jenny Lippmann (maternal aunt)	1930-1937
1	7	personal papers of Manfred Broh	1906 - 1947
1	7	financial statements	1947
1	7	handwritten speech on health	undated
1	7	immunization record	1906 Oct 16
1	7	opera performance journal	1917-1923

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Series III: Photographs, 1902 - 1991.
This series is in English andGerman.
1 linear foot.
Arrangement: Topical.
Scope and Content: This series contains photographs of members of the extended Broh family.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	9	souvenir photographs	196?
2	10	family photographs	1902 - 195?
2	11	container of film negative rolls	undated
2	12	photographs and negatives , matchbook	195? - 199?
2	12	matchbook with photo imprint	195?
2	13	photographs and negatives	194? - 198?
2	14	photographs and negatives	1935, 1979 -1988
2	14a	"Guenther in Luzern 1935" negatives	1935
2	14b	negatives	197?
2	14c	"Canadian Rockies" photographs	1979
2	14d	"Iceland" negatives	198?
2	14e	"Pontresina...Montreux 1984" negatives	1984
2	14f	photographs	1987
2	14g	"Soden … 1988"	1988
2	15	photographs	1913, 1933, 1957-1987
2	16	photographs	1914-1940
2	17	"Reprints sent to Günter"	1925-1956
2	18	"Previous Generation"	1929-196?
2	19	photographs	193?-197?
2	20	"Elizabethtown" negatives	1944
2	21	photographs and negatives	1944-1975
2	22	"Montreal"	195?-198?
2	23	photographs and negatives	195?
2	24	"Israel"	1950-1984
2	25	"Sep 55"	1955
2	26	correspondence and photographs	1956
2	27	photographs	1957-1960
2	28	"Reykajavik 1958" photographs and negatives	1958
2	29	photographs	1958-1979
2	30	photographs and negatives	1961-1989
2	31	"Bremen"	1963-1982
2	32	"Saint Adile 1968" "Saint Donat 1968"	1968
2	33	museum pass for D. Broh	1969
2	34	mountain landscapes	197?
2	35	"Friede"	1970-1987
2	36	mountain landscape photographs and negatives	1973
2	37	photographs	1973-1988
2	38	travel photographs and negatives	1973
2	39	"Israel" photographs and negatives	1974-1987
2	40	"Rockies 1974" photographs and negatives	1974
2	41	"Grandmother" negative	198?
2	42	"Hilda Niagara Falls"	198?
2	43	"Montreux" photographs and negatives	198?
2	44	vacation photographs	198?
2	45	photographs and slide	1983
2	46	"Montreux, Berlin … 1984" photographs and negatives	1984
2	47	"Iceland, Bad Orb 1985" photographs and negatives	1985
2	48	"Pontresina, Lake Lucern 1985" photographs and negatives	1985
2	49	photographs	1986-1991
2	50	"Israel 1987" photographs and negatives	1987
2	51	"Icelanders in Montreal, Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake 1987"	1987
2	52	"1988 film" photographs and negatives	1988
2	53	"Kanadaferd"	1986
2	54	photo album	1991

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Series IV: Dagobert Broh, 1937 - 1999.
This series is in English, German, French, Hebrew, Icelandic and Hungarian.
2 linear feet.
Arrangement: Topical.
Scope and Content: This series contains personal papers, financial documents and correspondence of Dagobert Broh, including wedding invitations, funeral announcements and news clippings. Broh made several attempts to track down lost relatives and friends and those inquiries can be found here. Broh maintained communication with several associates and family members over many years. There is correspondence between Broh and the dramaturge and writer Hans J. Weitz that spans nearly three decades. Much of the correspondence in this series pertains to Broh’s dissertation research on the newspaper Aufbau, including letters from the historian George L. Mosse. Other scholars, writers and artists among Broh’s correspondents are Gerd Appenzeller, Katarina Bader-Molnar, Susan Aurelia Gitelson, stage designer John Isaack, and Aufbau editor Gert Niers.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	55	papers of Dagobert Broh	1972 - 1995
3	55	"Curriculum Vitae" of Dagobert Broh	1995 Jun 17
3	55	photocopies of clippings and resume of Minerva Broh	1972 - 1980
3	55	correspondence	198?
3	55	Schoenthal, Siegfried	19?
3	55	Luise Selma to Uncle Dago	19?
3	55	Pétursdóttir, M.H. to Dagobert Broh	198?
3	56 - 62	P-R personal correspondence and clippings	1966-1999
3	56	Petursdottir, Magnea Henny	1979 - 1998
3	57	Petursdottir, Minna Hrön	1979 - 1999
3	58	Prager, Ingeborg	1991 - 1997
3	59	Poch-Goldin, Hymie and Vilma	1996 - 1999
3	60	Rappoport, Werner M. and Eva	1966 - 1982
3	60	Landesrentenbehörde Nordrhein-Westfalen pamphlet for pension recipients	1982
3	61	Rickertsen, Ocke and Iris	1974 -1999
3	62	Rōmer, Claudia	1996
3	62	Rothfels, Horst and Edith	1990 - 1996
3	63 - 68	T - W personal correspondence	1957 - 1999
3	63	Taal, Elizabeth	1982 - 1986
3	64	Uhlmann, L	1957
3	64	von der Walde: David, Margot, Ully and Rudolph	1975 - 1998
3	65	Wagschal, Ingo	1979 - 1997
3	65	Friedman, Gerda	1987 - 1996
3	67	Weitz, Hans J.	1979 - 1994
3	68	Willis, Gerhard (Jerry) and Karin	1991 - 1999
3	69	A - Be invoices, billing statements, sales receipts	1976 - 1999
3	70	Bi - E invoices, billing statements, sales receipts	1979 - 1998
3	71	F - H invoices, billing statements, sales receipts	1978 - 1999
3	72	J - M invoices, billing statements, sales receipts	1963 - 1995
3	73	Quebec customs form for Dagobert Broh	1987
3	73	Quebec passport application for Dagobert Broh	1981
3	74	O - Sc invoices, billing statements, sales receipts	1977 - 1999
3	74	Si - Y invoices, billing statements, sales receipts	1955 - 1998
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	75	address lists	undated
4	75	correspondence to Dagobert Broh : A-K	1975 - 1998
4	75	Auerbach, Ella	1987 - 1988
4	75	August	1978
4	75	Baumgardt, Gert	198?
4	75	Beer, Helmuth and Sidda	1975 - 1982
4	75	Brook, Hilde	1992
4	75	Charlow, John and Gloria	1996 - 1998
4	75	Consulate General of Israel, Toronto	1996
4	75	Deutsche Bibliotek: Mechthild Hahner, Ursula Butt	1988 - 1996
4	75	Erdos, Kovynna[spell?]	1998
4	75	Farago, Stefan Adam: Funeral announcement	1979
4	75	Frankenstein, Richard	1996 - 1998
4	75	Freeman, ML	1985 - 1992
4	75	Friedemann, Gerda and Simon	1991, 1994
4	75	Friedman, Amnon	1987 - 1996
4	76	correspondence to Dagobert Broh : L - S	1972 - 1996
4	76	Heinitz, Ernst	1996
4	76	Hertz, Arthur	199?
4	76	Hertz-Bauer, Leisel	199?
4	76	Joan and Jerry	1997
4	76	Kadden, Margaret	1975
4	76	Lahat, Y	199?
4	76	Lamb, Frances	1996
4	76	Landesverband der Juedischen Gemeinden in Hessen/Unikower	1981
4	76	Laub, Michael and Marsha / Wake, Tim and Leslie	1993
4	76	Leffman, Anni	1976 - 1987
4	76	Lehnert, Herbert and Hildegard	1972 - 1976
4	76	Lewin, Else	1975 - 1996
4	76	Lubahn, Jack and Harriet	1976
4	76	Plaut, W. Gunther [Rabbi]	1996
4	76	Raudsepp, E	1996
4	76	Stadt Dortmund Bibliotek: Hans Bohrmann	1996
4	76	Victor	199?
4	77	correspondence congratulating doctoral degree of Dagogert Broh	1996
4	77	Boulanger, Marguerite	1996
4	77	M., Marie	1996
4	77	Morris-Jones, Margaret	1996
4	77	Rosmoor, Mary E.	1996
4	77	Bernstein, Ilse Waldeck	1996
4	77	Ruskovor, Edith	1996
4	77	Heller, Eva	1996
4	77	Essig, Karl	1996
4	77	Seltenreich Family	1996
4	77	Marsha and Michael	1996
4	77	Mahler, Sam	1996
4	77	Maier, I	1996
4	77	Suedwestfunk: Birgit Kienzle	1996
4	77	Tel Aviv University: Mordechai Naor	1996
4	77	Jewish Family Services: Lucy Y. Steinitz	1996
4	77	Ross, Irene H.	1996
4	77	Scott, Betty	1996
4	77	Leffmann, Anni	1996
4	77	Oelberg, Henry and Barbara	1996
4	77	Cohen Tuteur, Margaret	1996
4	77	Funk family: Peter, Rita and Robbie	1996
4	77	Raudsepp, E	1996
4	77	Kuempfbeck, Andrea	1996
4	77	Lewin, Victor and Marlene	1996
4	78	Appenzeller family: Gerd, Stephanie and Roswitha	1978 - 1988
4	79	Bader-Molnar, Katarina	1980 - 1989
4	79	book publisher promotional pamphlets featuring works by Katerina E. Bader-Molnar	1979-1985
4	79	amulet/ hamsa; relief metalwork; features Hebrew script " שדי "	198?
4	80	Broh family : Manfred, Benno and Richard	1946 - 1983
4	80	Broh, Manfred	1979 -1983
4	80	Broh, Benno	1967
4	80	National Council of Jewish Women / Frieda Heilberg, re Albert Broh	1946
4	80	Broh, Richard	1967
4	81	Cohen family: Aharon and Nancy, David and Orit	1993 - 1998
4	82	Cohen, Miriam	1992 - 1997
4	83	Cohen, Trude	1974 - 1992
4	83	Cohen-Tutuer, Margaret	1996
4	84	Goldman, Hilde	1992 - 1996
4	85	Goldstein, Hlin and Peter	1985 - 1997
4	86	Gumprich, Michelle	1995 - 1999
4	87	Gumprich, Walter and Lois	1982 - 1999
4	88	Gundlach, Michael	1992 - 1997
4	89	Hotovsky, Ruth	1979 - 1996
4	90	Isaack, John and Harriet	1975 - 1999
4	91	Kassie family: Ralph, Carol, Joey, Connie, Ernie	1975 - 1999
4	92	Kiefer, Ruth	1937 - 1990
4	92	Gitelson, Susan Aurelia/ World Jewish Congress	1976
4	92	Rozsa, Imre/ Nairobi Hebrew Congregation	1977
4	93	Kogan family: Sandra, David, Billy and Jon	1994 - 1998
4	94	K., Lily	1975 - 1979
4	95	Köster, Karl	1975 - 1990
4	96	Leo Baeck Institute: Diane R. Spielmann; regarding dissertation research	1997
4	97	Maass, Kaete and Erwin	1975 - 1998
4	98	Margo Family and Estate: Sigmund, Edith, Eva and W.	1978
4	99	Mosse, George L.	1982 - 1996
4	100	Mueller, Ingrid and Helmut	1974 - 1988
4	101	Munzer, Kurt and Friedel	1975 - 1997
4	102	Niers, Gert [editor of Aufbau]	1992 - 1996
4	102	photocopies of articles regarding Aufbau history	1992
4	103	Ottósson, Henny	1975 - 1983
4	104	Regen, Audrey Heumann; regarding dissertation research materials	1992 - 1996
4	105	Schleck, Ilse and Guenter	1946, 1975 - 1986
4	106	Schleck, Rainer and Elke	1976 - 1997

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