Carola S. Trier Collection.

The Carola S. Trier collection consists of the personal documents of Carola S. Trier. The bulk of the collection consists of her memoirs, covering a period from 1935 to 1942. The collection also includes Carola S. Trier's personal and official correspondence and personal documents, as well as notes and notebooks by her father, Eduard Strauss. Also included clippings, mostly from The New York Times and Aufbau.Carola S. Trier was born in 1913. She was the second daughter of Eduard Strauss. She went to school at the Philanthropin in Frankfurt am Main. Very early in her life she decided to become a dancer, studying at the Laban School. She had several engagements mainly in France, where she performed with Marcel Neydorf. Carola S. Trier's parents left Europe in December 1938, but she stayed in France until 1942. During this period she was briefly imprisoned in Gurs concentration camp, which she fled with the help of Marcel Neydorf. She reached New York in 1942. From 1942 until her death on October 28, 2000, she stayed in New York, working as an exercise adviser.digitize