Charles Laufer papers

Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0372.1

The Charles Laufer papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, education and employment records, subject files, and two scrapbooks. Documents include birth, marriage, and death certificates, divorce papers, work and travel papers, passports, military papers, correspondence among Laufer and his family and friends documenting emigration efforts, school certificates, apprenticeship records, a resume, forms, clippings, programs, a brochure, a passenger list, receipts and two scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain clippings and photographs about Laufer's boxing career, photographs of Laufer and his family and friends, and postcards mailed among Laufer and his family and friends. Subjects include Laufer's boxing achievements, his expulsion from Germany in 1938 and his immigration to America, and the pension Laufer's mother received as a war widow.

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Date: inclusive: 1904-1977
Language: English
German
Polish
Hebrew
Extent: 1 box
3 oversize boxes
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lawrence and Fred Laufer

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Document Creator: Charles Laufer
Biography: Charles Laufer was born Sally Borgenicht on January 5, 1910, as a Polish citizen in Berlin. His parents, Löbl Laufer (also known as Löbl Borgenicht) and Sara Güttla Borgenicht (also known as Sabina Laufer), were also both Polish citizens. He attended primary and secondary school in Berlin and was apprenticed at a couple of clothing manufacturers before becoming a full employee of Friedländer & Zaduck. He was also a heavyweight boxer for the Jewish boxing club "Maccabi." He was expelled from Germany in 1938 as an alien under a new law regarding immigrants. He immigrated to the United States with his mother in December 1938. In the 1950s and 1960s Laufer pursued the West German government for restitution of a pension owed to his mother.
System of Arrangement: The Charles Laufer papers are arranged as five series: Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1904-1956; Series 2: Correspondence, 1937-1977; Series 3: Education and Employment, 1916-1963; Series 4: Subject Files, 1922-1976; Series 5: Scrapbooks, circa 1927-1939
Topical Term: Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
Jewish refugees--Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Refugees.
Polish people--Germany.
Jewish boxers--Germany--Berlin.
Jews--Sports.
Geographic Name: Germany--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--20th century.
Berlin (Germany)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Dr. Fred Laufer and Lawrence Laufer donated the Charles Laufer papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Sept. 3, 1996.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-05-20 09:19:14
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The collection consists of Gewerberlegitimationskarte, Landhurm-Pals, Reisepass, Arbeitsbuch, two Polish passports, box of correspondence, blue and white sash, three books, leather portfolio, and two photo albums.