Found 3 collections related to Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Arthur David Morse (1920-1971) was an author and television producer for the Columbia Broadcasting System. Typescripts of Morse's published and unpublished articles, speeches, and books; scripts of his television programs "Yesteryear" and "See it Now;" and press clippings, reviews, and other printed matter. Includes page proofs, research notes, and other papers relating to the pubication of Morse's book, WHILE SIX MILLION DIED: A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN APATHY (1968). Material about the War Refugee Board. Also, other writings concerning nutrition, health, and education. less

Lore Segal is a New York based novelist and children's book author. A daughter of Austrian Jews, Segal escaped Nazi occupied Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1939. This collection contains letters and documents of her family in Austria and England during World War II, and their emigration to the Dominican Republic and the United States; letters to Segal from throughout her life; letters from Segal as a young girl and documenting her time at Yaddo; and literary manuscripts documenting her novels, children's books, short stories and other writings. Also present are letters and writings of her husband, literary editor David Segal. less

Kurt Enoch (1894-1982) was a German-born publisher. After a career in Europe as a publisher of paperback reprints of British and American authors, Enoch came to the United States in 1940. In 1942 he joined Penguin Books, and in 1947, with Victor Weybridge, acquired controlling interest in the parent company, and changed the corporate name to the New American Library of World Literature (NAL). Enoch was instrumental in the 1960 merger of NAL and the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, and played a key role in the subsequent development of both organizations. From 1960 until his retirement in 1968, he held various executive postions in NAL and the Times Mirror Company. After his retirement he was active as a book publishing consultant. Collection consists of papers dealing mainly with the merger in 1960 of the NAL and the Times Mirror Company, and the subsequent development of NAL as an autonomous subsidiary. Letters and papers concern the merger and the efforts of The Times Mirror Company to expand and diversify. Also, a few personal letters; some correspondence and papers relating to Penguin Books, Ballantine Books and the Overlook Press; correspondence and papers relating to Enoch's other publishing ventures; his work as a consultant; and transcripts of Enoch's oral history "Encounter with the Holocaust.". less