M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations
 
 Kurt Grossmann was born in Berlin, Germany. He served as the Executive Director of the League for Human Rights from 1926 to 1933. In February 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he founded the Democratic Refugee Relief Committee, an organization dedicated to providing relief to refugees. He also edited the news about Germany for a news service [news agency]. In 1939, he moved to the United States and worked as a writer; among his other topics, he dealt extensively with the problems of the Jewish refugees. After 1952 he worked in the American section of the Jewish Agency for Israel as an advisor for matters related to Germany and Austria, and he published the journal, "Digest on Germany and Austria".
 
 In the collection there is documentation primarily regarding the background to Grossmann's activities as a press officer after World War II, along with documentation regarding the negotiations conducted between Israel and Germany concerning the reparations. The documentation includes mainly German publications regarding German legislation concerning reparations and reports of Grossmann's trips to Germany. More than half the documentation consists of press clippings.