Curt Silberman
Thomas Dehler and Curt Silberman in 1967
Curt C. Silberman (1908, Würzburg, Germany - 2002, Livingston, NJ) was a German-Jewish and American attorney, community leader, and member of Jewish organizations in both Germany and the United States. After he fled Germany in 1938, he and his wife Else settled in New Jersey. His legal career in the United States focused on restitution work for the victims of the Nazi government.[1]
Jewish Organizations
Silberman was active in many Jewish organizations. He was a co-founder of the Leo Baeck Institute, and for a period of time, the head of American Federation of Jews from Central Europe[2] and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.[3]
External links
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- Guide to the Curt C. Silberman Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
- Oral history interview with Curt Silberman
References
- ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths SILBERMAN, DR. CURT C.". The New York Times. p. 12.
- ↑ Eli Lederhendler (2001). New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity: 1950-1970. Syracuse University Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8156-0711-3. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ↑ Silberman Seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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