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The Archives
The Leo Baeck
Institute Archives is the outstanding documentation center of its kind.
Individuals, families, and organizations have deposited their documents
at the LBI. Family papers, community histories, and business and public
records date back centuries and touch upon virtually every phase of
German-Jewish life. Detailed descriptions of all materials are
available in the online catalog.
In 2006, we were able to start
digitizing valuable items and whole archival collections. Newly
digitized items are continually being added. Please visit the
LBI Digital Archives.
A unique collection of over 1500 memoirs offers rare insights into the
lives of German Jews from all walks of life from 1790 to the
post-war era.
| Judaica
paintings, sculptures, drawings, watercolors and prints further enhance
the significance of the Institute as an impressive repository of the
cultural legacy of German-speaking Jewry. Important for their
documentary as well as artistic value, many are works of leading German
artists of the last 100 years, including illustrators, architects,
satirists, and Holocaust survivors. The LBI also has an extensive
collection of drawings by inmates of concentration camps. |
Bust
of Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936)
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