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Friday, 4 April: Due to the events of the Night of Libraries, the reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will close at 21:30.

News from the exile collections

Ausschnitt der illustrierten Titelseite des London Diary von Lili Cassel. Ein zeichnendes Mädchen sitzt zwischen Wolken vermutlich auf einem Sperrballon zur Abwehr von Luftangriffen. Die Illustrationen sind mit Tusche und Wasserfarben gemalt.

Buddy Elias – In memoriam

Porträt von Buddy Elias Porträt von Buddy Elias

On 16 March 2015, the Swiss actor Buddy Elias died in Basel aged 89. Well known from film and TV productions, the actor was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1925. He and his family emigrated to Switzerland in 1931.

As a cousin of Anne Frank, who was murdered by the Nazis, and as the long-standing president of the Anne Frank Foundation, Buddy Elias played an important part in the publication and dramatisation of Anne Frank’s diary. The German National Library’s exile collections and the Anne Frank Shoah Library contain many different portrayals of exile and the Holocaust. We had the privilege of welcoming Buddy Elias to our Frankfurt premises in November 2013. Together with Fritzi Haberlandt and Mirjam Pressler, he presented the complete edition of Anne Frank’s works published by S. Fischer. As Anne Frank's last living relative, Buddy Elias kept the Franks’ family history in living memory. He was planning to join us for the opening of Frankfurt liest ein Buch (Frankfurt reads a book) in April. His voice will be missed.

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  1. Dr. Vincent C. Frank Steiner (1930–2025) – In memoriam
  2. Hans Günter Flieg (1923–2024) – in memoriam
  3. Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer (1928–2024) – in memoriam
  4. Guy Stern (1922–2023) – in memoriam
  5. Trude Simonsohn (1921-2022) – in memoriam
  6. “Child Emigration from Frankfurt am Main. Stories of rescue, loss and remembrance”
  7. Questionnaires as a source for researching German-speaking exile – using Alfred Kantorowicz as an example
  8. Professor Dr. John M. Spalek (1928-2021) in memoriam
  9. Lieselotte Maas (1937-2020) – In memoriam
  10. Ruth Klüger (1931-2020) – in memoriam
  11. "What should I cook?" Recipes from the German Exile Archive 1933-1945
  12. Hellmut Stern (1928-2020) - In memoriam
  13. Thomas Mann: German listeners! – listening station on the topic of exile outside our Frankfurt building
  14. Publication of exhibition catalogue “Exile. Experience and Testimony”
  15. Focusing on the topic of exile – the history magazine "Damals" ("Yesteryear") is published in collaboration with the German Exile Archive 1933–1945
  16. Dora Schindel (1915–2018) – In memoriam
  17. Werner Berthold (1921–2017) – In memoriam
  18. Rolf Kralovitz (1925 - 2015) – In memoriam
  19. Buddy Elias – In memoriam
  20. Arts in Exile – virtual exhibition and network
  21. Brigitte Kralovitz-Meckauer (1925–2014) – in memoriam
  22. Ludwig Werner Kahn - 100th birthday
  23. Goethe Medal and honorary membership of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. awarded to Professor John M. Spalek
  24. "Nestor of German finance" - Fritz Neumark's 110th birthday
  25. Book donation for the German National Library
  26. "A prisoner of Stalin and Hitler" - 20 years since the death of Margarete Buber-Neumann
  27. The founder of futurology – the 100th birthday of Ossip K. Flechtheim
  28. On the death of lyricist Emma Kann
  29. Nestor of exile research 1933–1945 in the USA - the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. John M. Spalek
  30. Pre-mortem legacy of politologist John G. Stoessinger in the German Exile Archive 1933-1945
  31. Lili Cassel Wronker: A London Diary, 1939-1940
  32. Chronicler of her century – 90th birthday of Anja Lundholm
  33. Reichsausbürgerungskartei
  34. Hans Gustav Güterbock
  35. Geneviève Pitot: The Mauritian-Shekel

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