Rabbi Bernhard Brilling collection

This collection contains extensive correspondence files from Brilling, documenting his role as an archivist and historian of the Jewish communities in Silesia, and in particular in Breslau, during the years prior to his own emigration to Palestine in 1939. Also included are correspondence files pertaining to Jewish genealogy in those regions, collections of printed materials collected by Brilling from the German Jewish diaspora in Palestine during the early 1940s, documents collected by Brilling about the Jewish community of Breslau, as well as documents he collected about the deportation of Jews from Breslau, Posen, Pomerania, and other regions of eastern Germany during the Holocaust. Copyright Holder: Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main Bernhard Brilling was a rabbi, genealogist, and archivist living in Germany before and after World War II. During the war, Brilling escaped to Palestine.