Weinmann-Fels collection

<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> The Weinmann-Felses were a blended family. Eva Weinmann (1892-1942) had two children from her first marriage to Bruno Fels, Ursel (b. 1913) and Klaus. Eva later married Kurt Weinmann, with whom she had a daughter, Ulla (1924-1981). Kurt died in 1934 of a heart condition. Eva was deported to Auschwitz on transport no. 23. She was murdered there on 29 November 1942. Ursel escaped to South Africa with her husband Martin Eisenstein, while Klaus went to the USA. Ulla, who was sponsored by Sir Josiah Wedgwood, came to Britain, where she studied art and worked at the Wedgwood factory. In later life, she became interested in transcendental meditation. <p>Documents belonging to and about three members of the Weinmann-Fels family: Ulla Weinmann, her sister Ursel Fels and their mother Eva Weinmann. The series on Ulla Weinmann contains vital records and identity documents, information on her arrival in Britain (including a letter from Sir Josiah Wedgwood to Ursel promising to act as Ulla’s sponsor), letters she sent while at an ashram in India and photographs. </p><p>The Ursel Fels series has documents and photographs on her study of art and design at the Reimann School in Berlin and her subsequent career as a window display designer in Germany and South Africa. The file on Eva Weinmann contains her letters to her daughter Ursel and correspondence dealing with Eva’s fate under the Nazis.</p> Open