Elisabeth Lunau Collection. 1750s-1997 Bulk: 1916-1997

The Elisabeth Lunau Collection documents Elisabeth Lunau’s personal life and her research on her father, Ludwig Marum, a Minister in the Weimer Republic and a prominent figure in the Socialist movement; the collection also documents Elisabeth Lunau’s research on her family’s genealogy. The collection consists of correspondence, vital-, immigration-, and financial documents, photographs, lists, genealogical tables, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials.Elisabeth Lunau was born in 1910, the daughter of Ludwig Marum. In 1936, Elisabeth Lunau emigrated to France and was interned in the camps of Hyères and Gurs. In 1941, she emigrated with her mother and her husband Heinz Lunau to New York, where she became executive housekeeper at a number of Manhattan hotels. She was the author of two books: 'Ludwig Marum. Briefe aus dem Konzenrationslager Kislau', a collection of her father's letters, and 'Auf der Flucht in Frankreich : "Boches ici, juifs là-bas" - der Briefwechsel einer deutschen Familie im Exil 1939–1942', a collection of her and her relatives' letters. Elisabeth Lunau died in New York on June 5th, 1998.Elisabeth Lunau's father, Ludwig Marum was a member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) and 1914-1928 of the Landtag of Baden, serving as Minister of Justice from 1918 to 1919. Marum was a member of the Reichstag from 1928 until 1933. On May 16, 1933 he was arrested and deported to Kislau concentration camp, where he was murdered on March 29, 1934.digitize