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Ernst Papanek Papers (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 Ernst Papanek Papers (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 International Institute of Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands hdl:10622/ARCH01031 © IISH Amsterdam 2021 Ernst Papanek Papers (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 Table of contents Ernst Papanek Papers..................................................................................................................... 3 Context............................................................................................................................................... 3 Content and Structure........................................................................................................................3 Access and Use.................................................................................................................................5 Appendices.........................................................................................................................................5 INVENTORY..................................................................................................................................... 6 BOX A: Out of the Fire manuscripts & Materials....................................................................... 6 BOX B: ERNST PAPANEK FAMILY LETTERS & DOCUMENTS...............................................9 BOX C: ERNST PAPANEK PUBLISHED ARTICLES & REPRINTS........................................ 11 BOX D: ERNST PAPANEK TYPESCRIPTS & MANUSCRIPTS.............................................. 17 BOX E: ERNST PAPANEK FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES & COMRADES..................... 20 BOX F: ERNST PAPANEK EDUCATOR & CHILD ADVOCATE...............................................27 BOX G: ERNST PAPANEK POLITICAL ACTIVISM & POSTHUMOUS ARCHIVES................ 34 BOX H: ERNST PAPANEK ORIGINAL HISTORICAL PAPERS...............................................41 BOX I: ERNST PAPANEK PHOTOGRAPHS............................................................................44 Sammlung von Briefen und Drucksachen aus dem Besitz seiner verstorbenen Schwester, Margarete Wasservogel, im IISG deponiert durch Hanna Papanek, 01.07.1990...................... 45 K1: Korrespondenz der Familie Papanek........................................................................ 45 K2: Veröffentlichungen von Ernst Papanek: Bücher, Sammelbände (in:), Sonderdrucke (Sdr.) und Zeitungsausschnitte (ZA)..................................................................................45 Veröffentlichungen über Ernst Papanek...........................................................................46 Accrual 2005...............................................................................................................................47 Accrual 2007............................................................................................................................. 48 Accrual 2016...............................................................................................................................48 Section 1: Biographical...................................................................................................... 48 Section 2: School days, 1910-1927...................................................................................48 Section 3: Exile, Pre-WW II, WW II - OSE, 1934-1940.....................................................49 Section 4: Postwar career................................................................................................. 50 Section 5: Political activism............................................................................................... 50 Section 6: Published articles and reprints......................................................................... 50 Section 7: Typescripts and manuscripts............................................................................52 International Institute of Social History 2 Ernst Papanek Papers (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 Ernst Papanek Papers Collection ID ARCH01031 Creator Papanek, Ernst Period (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 Period (bulk) 1900-1973 Extent 4.12 m. Language list English Language of Material German, English Context Biographical Note Pseudonym: Ernst Pek; born in Vienna 1900, died in Vienna 1973; youth leader, pedagogue and education reformer; active in the Verband der Sozialistischen Arbeiterjugend Deutschösterreichs (SAJDÖ) from 1919 and its president 1933-1934; member of the City Council of Vienna 1932-1934; member of the executive committee of the Socialist Youth International (SYI) 1934-1939; fled to Czechoslovakia 1934, where he supported the illegal Revolutionäre Sozialistische Jugend (RSJ) in Austria; editor of the International Pedagogical Information (IPI) 1936-1938; fled to France 1938; worked for the Organisation de Santé et de l'Éducation (OSE), which was founded by Russian Jews and smuggled children out of Germany, housing them in castles in France 1938-1940; fled to the United States 1940; worked for the Children's Aid Society; active in various Austrian emigrant organizations and from 1941 member of the American Socialist Party; in 1945 director of the Child and Youth Project Department of the Unitarian Service Committee (USC) and later director of American Youth for World Youth (AYWY); in 1947 head of the Brooklyn Training School for Girls and from 1949 head of the Wiltwyck School for Boys in New York. Custodial History The papers of Ernst Papanek, donated by his daughter-in-law Hanna Papanek to the IISH, are not his entire papers (the main part was received in 1997, a minor part already in 1990). Another part of his papers was transferred to the New York Public Library, while a small collection of typoscripts was given to the Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung in Vienna. The documents transferred to the IISH mainly concern Papanek's socialist commitment and his `European' activities, including his work for the relief of refugee children from Europe. Acquisition The papers were donated to the IISH by Hanna Papanek and Margarete Wasservogel in 1990; with accruals received from Hanna Papanek in 1997, 2005, 2016 and 2019. Content and Structure Content Appointment diaries 1934-1946; files containing correspondence with and other documents concerning family members and friends, including Claude Brown, Alex Goldstern, Ludwig Greve, William Kilpatrick, Grete Wasservogel and others 1920-1985 (-1995); identity papers and other personal documents 1900-1973; manuscripts of `Out of the Fire', `The Children of Montmorency', `The Austrian School Reform' and many other publications (1924-) 1941-1971, n.d.; copies of published articles and documents concerning his publications 1941-1971 (-1980); files on the International Pedagogical Information 1936-1939; on the children's homes of the OSE and the International Institute of Social History 3 Ernst Papanek Papers (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 evacution of these children to the USA 1939-1941, with letters and memoirs by former refugee children 1945-1995; on his work for the USC and his role as Child Projects Director in postwar Europe 1946; on his work as director of the AYWY 1945-1950; on his school directorship in New York 1949-1962; on his visits to Israel, Japan and Sweden 1966, 1968; on the Nazi persecution of Austrian Jews and Socialists and the Austrian resistance 1936-1945 (-1981) and files containing correspondence of comrades, including letters by Friedrich Adler, Hugo Breitner, Wilhelm Ellenbogen and Otto Leichter 1940-1945; manuscripts of the (unpublished) autobiography of Helene Papanek and transcripts of interviews with her 1978-1979; copies of periodicals and clippings concerning Papanek 1946-1981. Accrual 2019: Stein Collection and Elly Kaiser Stein Collection. Arrangement The papers had already been arranged by Kristine Ann CasaBianca in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her inventory only needed some minor adjustments. The descriptions of the documents, already received by the IISH in 1990, were added and encoded as K1-K5 (see p. 51). Furthermore a few marginal notes were made on documents, described in the inventory, but which actually have been retained by the Papanek family (see E-10, E-26, E-30, E-35 and E-37), or which were misfiled or missing (see E-25, G-37). In the same way descriptions of some later received supplementary documents (see E-21, E-33, K 6) have been added. Copies of books have been transferred to the library of the IISH (see A-2, A-3, F-2, H-4 and H-5). Photographs have been transferred to the audiovisual department of the IISH (see E-36, E-41, G-22, G-25, G-30, G-34, H-7 and Box I). Processing Information Inventory made by Kristine Ann CasaBianca in 1999; list of the accrual by Tiny de Boer in 2006; list of accrual 2016 by Denise Long beginning on January 29, 2002, revised by Alethea Yates, 2006-2016 and edited by Bouwe Hijma, IISH, in 2017. Subjects Geographic Names Austria France United States Persons Adler, Friedrich Goldstern, Alex Papanek, Hanna Papanek, Helene Organizations American Youth for World Youth Organisation de Santé et de l'Éducation (OSE) Themes Socialist and social democrat parties/Socialist International Education Youth and students movements Exiles/Political refugees International Institute of Social History 4 Ernst Papanek Papers (1857-) 1900-1973 (-2005)1900-1973 Material Type Archival material Access and Use Access Not restricted Preferred Citation Ernst Papanek Papers, inventory number ..., International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Appendices Biographical Note Ernst Papananek
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