Eva Gabriele Reichmann

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Eva Gabriele Reichmann (16 January 1897 – 15 September 1998) was an eminent German

Life

Eva Gabriele Reichmann (née Jungmann) was born in Lublinitz (Upper-Silesia) the daughter of Adolf and Agnes Jungmann. She was married to the lawyer Hans Reichmann. Between 1924 and 1939 both worked for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, one of the most important organisations focused on the protection of Judaism in Germany. In 1938, in the course of the Novemberpogrome her husband was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After that the couple emigrated to London in 1939.

In London she worked as a translator for

is well differentiated nowadays and is not supported any more, her work did encourage further research on that topic substantially.

As one of the first German speaking historians and persecuted Jews she collected and archived reports of persecuted Jewish people and eyewitnesses for the

.

Reichmann is deemed to be an outstanding scientist, who, as an affected contemporary witness, began research on the development of the Holocaust directly after the end of the war and thereby contributed importantly to clarification and reconciliation.^[citation needed]

Her sister was Elisabeth Jungmann, the secretary and second wife of caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm.

Works

• Größe und Verhängnis deutsch-jüdischer Existenz. Zeugnisse einer tragischen Begegnung. Mit einem Geleitwort von Helmut Gollwitzer. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1974
• Hostages of Civilisation. A Study of the Social Causes of Antisemitism. Association of Jewish Refugees Information, April 1945
• German: Die Flucht in den Hass. Die Ursachen der deutschen Judenkatastrophe. Frankfurt am Main 1951
• Editor: Worte des Gedenkens für Leo Baeck. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1959

See also

• Hannah Arendt

References

External links

• Guide to the Eva Reichmann Collection at the
  Leo Baeck Institute, New York
  .