In order to preserve the memory of the life and intellectual history of the Jews of Central Europe before the Shoah, German-Jewish emigrants founded the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, London and Jerusalem in 1955. These included famous intellectuals such as Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber. To this day, the institution collects objects, records and documents, especially from Jewish refugees and their heirs. It is the most important independent research institution on German-Jewish history. Now the institute in New York and the branch in Berlin have opened their archives “to well-known authors and young writers.” There they dealt with contemporary testimonies in order to write texts that, according to the Leo Baeck Institute, “are intended to be memorial pieces for people who are completely or almost forgotten today, similar to the stumbling blocks in European cities.” The contribution of Writer Dana von Suffrinwhose second novel “Again from the Front” has just been published, is documented here.
Leo Baeck Institute opens its archives to writers like Dana von Suffrin – Culture
