Richard A. Ehrlich Collection 1854-1969

The collection contains documents about the families Alexander, Kurtzig and Ehrlich and centers around the small city of Rogasen in the formerly Prussian province of Posen. Richard A. Ehrlich, following a family tradition, was a printer and publisher, also a writer of short stories with Jewish themes mostly about Rogasen.A report to Albert Einstein about relatives who had died in Theresienstadt led to a correspondence with Einstein who assisted Ehrlich's son to immigrate to the United states (5 letters and 2 cards by Einstein).Richard A Ehrlich was a survivor of Theresienstadt; there are 2 manuscripts about it. He was then active in the Displaced Persons Center in Deggendorf, Bavaria; the file about Deggendorf contains 12 issues of the Deggendorf Center Revue.The following persons are mentioned in this collection:Alexander, Jonas; Alexander, Wolff; Baeck, Leo; Cohen, Carl; Eis, Ruth; Elbogen, Ismar; Eppstein, Paul; Lamm, Hans; Rengstorf, Karl Heinrich; Salomon, Rosa; Strauss, Bruno; Unger, Heinz.Richard Ehrlich's account about his time in Theresienstadt, The History of our Negative Emigration, is also available in the LBI Memoir Collection, ME 1101.A history of the Ehrlich family, Fuenf Generationen der Familien Alexander-Ehrlich, is catalogued separately in the Memoir Collection as ME 120.Born in Rogasen (now Rogoźno, Poland) on February 22, 1888, Richard Ehrlich was a printer and publisher. He moved to Berlin after World War I, and was deported to Theresienstadt with his wife and his mother in 1943. He immigrated to the United States in 1946, and lived in New York City. He died in 1974.Finding aid available online.13-page inventory.Photographs removed to Photograph Collectiondigitize