Hans and Grete Hochhauser family collection
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the collections consists of correspondence and official documents about disappropriation of the family business, ”Otto Hochhauser Feinleder Manufaktur" in Vienna, Austria in 1938 (photocopies and some originals.) Also included are records pertaining to education and emigration, as are photographs, as well as compositions and lyrics by Grete Hochhauser, née Barkan.
Dates
- Creation: 1897-1948, 2005
Creator
- Browner, Ilse Lore, 1925- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German.
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
Biographical Note
Hans Hochhauser owned his father’s leather business in Vienna. He was a freemason and a member of the conservative Austrian political party “Vaterländische Front”. His wife Grete née Barkan was a pianist and composer. Hans and Grete Hochhauser, their daughter Ilse, as well as Hans’ brother Walter and his children Inge and Gunther fled the Nazis in March 1938 on a chartered airplane to London.
Extent
4 Folders
Abstract
The bulk of the collections consists of correspondence and official documents about disappropriation of the family business, ”Otto Hochhauser Feinleder Manufaktur" in Vienna, Austria in 1938 (photocopies and some originals.) Also included are records pertaining to education and emigration, as are photographs, as well as compositions and lyrics by Grete Hochhauser, née Barkan.
Other Finding Aid
Inventory list
Subject
- Hochhauser, Grete, 1898-1978 (Person)
- Hochhauser, Hans, 1897-1974 (Person)
- Otto Hochhauser Feinleder Manufaktur (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Hans and Grete Hochhauser family collection, 1897-1948, 2005 AR 12070
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2017
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- March 2017:: dao links added by Emily Andresini.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
