Sally and Emmy Pottlitzer Collection 1886-1946

The collection is primarily composed of the letters of Sally Pottlitzer to his wife Emmy nee Fabian. There is one well-preserved picture postcard of Konitz (today Chojnice, Poland). Folder 2 contains Emmy's poetry album with poems and some (family?) death dates. The documents in folder 2 include a certificate recognizing Emmy's service during World War I, a letter announcing her dismissal from a commission in Berlin (1933), and the 1946 British naturalization certificate for Markus Borchardt (relation unknown).processed for digitizationSent for digitizationdigitize

Interview of Kate Freyhan.

Youth in Hamburg (Altona); university studies in Berlin and Freiburg; delay of emigration because of birth of Freyhan's son in 1938; emigration to England in 1939; main part of life in England; career as a musician.Kate Freyhan was born in Altona in 1909. She studied at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and at the Sorbonne. In 1937 she married the music teacher Hans Freyhan. After her emigration to England, she worked as a music teacher, conductor and Assistant Chorus Master of the Bedford Musical Society