Source Description
Three years after the end of
Second World War, on
September 13, 1948, Heinrich
Alexander, a
Berlin Jew who
survived the war in emigration
wrote this letter to the head of
Hamburg’s Jewish
congregation. In his brief letter he explained that he did not want to
remain in Berlin and
asked Harry Goldstein, the
head of the
Hamburg
congregation to support his relocation to
Hamburg. A couple of
weeks later Goldstein
replied. In his letter
Goldstein explained that
because of the housing shortage and the difficulties to receive a residence permit
for Hamburg he would
not be able to help, and he asks Alexander to
reconsider his plan. Both short letters are held in the
Hamburg State Archive’s
collection (regarding the Jewish community after
1945).
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Recommended Citation
Letter by the Hamburg Jewish Congregation in Reply to Heinrich Alexander, September 13, 1948 (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-178.en.v1> [December 06, 2024].