Martin Wreschner Correspondence

<p>Martin Wreschner (1905-1985) was the son of Margarete (Greta) neé Cohn and Salomon Wreschner. He married Minna Wreschner neé Wolff (1902-1954) in Berlin in 1932, and their son Gerd was born in 1934.</p><p>After the November Pogrom 1938, the family left Germany and found refuge in Shanghai. Martin's mother and his sister Mira Wreschner were able to join them there in 1940. They travelled to Shanghai via Moscow.</p><p>Numerous other Wreschner family members who had stayed behind in Germany were murdered in the Holocaust.</p><p>Margarete Wreschner died in Shanghai in 1942. Martin and his family managed to go to the USA in 1948. His sister Mira and relatives of his wife Minna who had also survived in Shanghai emigrated to Israel later and partly back to Germany.</p> <strong style="text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff0000; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">This material has been digitised. Readers should book a reading room terminal to access it.</strong> This collection comprises the correspondence of Jewish-German refugee Martin Wreschner in Shanghai from his mother Greta and sister Mira in Berlin, Germany. Open