Gabriele Weil collection

This collection includes family papers of the Weil family and their relatives, such as birth, death and marriage certificates, papers detailing Kurt Weil and his family’s attempts to emigrate from Germany, family trees, family photographs, and medals from the First World War. It also includes extensive family correspondence: between different branches of the family after they immigrated, between Kurt and his sister Dr Else Weil, and between Kurt and his family while he was interned in Onchan Camp. There is also documentation of Dr Else Weil’s life, and later correspondence between Gabriele Weil and the Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum regarding an exhibition about Else. Open