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Wilhelm Brüll

A series of connected letters and documents from across the archive relating to Wilhelm Brüll. (The name is rendered variously as Brüll, Bruell, and Brull.)

Letter from Fritz Brull to the Chief Immigration Officer in Northern Rhodesia. From the Fritz Brull archive. 6/12/1938
A detail of the broad Bruell family tree showing the family of Wilhelm Bruell
A page from the Lichtenfels Stolperstein website showing the fate of Wilhelm Bruell.
A page from the Lichtenfels Stolperstein website showing the fate of Wilhelm’s parent’s, Hugo and Frieda Bruell.
A page from the Lichtenfels Stolperstein website showing the fate of Wilhelm’s sister, Helene Wolf, her husband Leo Wolf and daughter, Margot.
As a city we want to set an example by laying the stumbling blocks. A sign against forgetting, against xenophobia and anti-Semitism. A sign for tolerance, for openness and humanity. The victims were among us, they were our fellow men and they have a right to never be forgotten. Andreas Hügerich, First Mayor of the city of Lichtenfels am 9. November 2018
A notice from the Lichtenfels Stolperstein website with a statement from the mayor Andreas Hügerich, 9 November 2018.
A letter from Alfred Mendel (then a soldier in the South African army visiting Palestine on a break from his unit in Egypt) to Fritz Bruell, where the plight of Wilhelm’s widow is described. (7/October/1943), page 1 of 3.
A letter from Alfred Mendel (then a soldier in the South African army visiting Palestine on a break from his unit in Egypt) to Fritz Bruell, where the plight of Wilhelm’s widow is described. (7/October/1943), page 2 of 3.
A letter from Alfred Mendel (then a soldier in the South African army visiting Palestine on a break from his unit in Egypt) to Fritz Bruell, where the plight of Wilhelm’s widow is described. (7/October/1943), page 3 of 3.

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