Title: Dr. Julius Kühl Collection, 1935-1982
ID: RG-13/RG-13
Primary Creator: Kühl, Julius
Extent: 0.0
Arrangement:
The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Record group is described to item-level, and is comprised of two hundred and forty-four items.
Languages: Polish, German, Italian, French, Spanish;Castilian, English, Hebrew, Swedish, Yiddish, Dutch;Flemish
This Record Group comprses various by content and time materials related to the dimplomatic and humanitarian activities of Dr. Julius Kühl, Polish diplomat in Berne, Switzerland in the wartime and post-war period.
This record group spans from the European prewar period, extensively covering the period of war in Europe till the 1960s in North America. The documents in this record group also shed light on the Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish relations in the German-occupied Poland.
During the war, Dr. Julius Kühl served at the Polish Consulate in Berne, Switzerland, who, in this position, often acted in cooperation with Jewish and other refugee organizations, providing aid to refugees and internees in the German-occupied countries and in the neutral countries. Dr. Kühl saved hundreds of his fellow Jews by helping and providing them with passports and visas; aiding their attempts to enter Switzerland; and cooperating with charitable Jewish organizations and prominent rescuers, such as Recha and Isaak Sternbuch.
Repository:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Original/Copies Note:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the primary repository for the Julius Kühl collection. For more information please see http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512846.
Preferred Citation:
RG-13, Dr. Julius Kühl Collection. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.
Processing Information:
Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.
