Item 1999/1 - Letter from Philip Grierson

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Letter from Philip Grierson, in typescript, dated 10 March 1999, following up on an earlier telephone conversation with IS and committing to paper the information that PG is seeking "about the late Professor David Daube's family". PG recounts how Professor Daube and his wife Herta (née Aufseesser) were arrested in Germany as Jews after Kristallnacht in November 1938 and how he managed to obtain "permits for them to come and settle in England". [Kristallnacht was 9/10 November.] On the basis of the entries in his passport, PG states that he flew to Germany with the necessary documents on November 17th, spent a week at Freiburg-im-Breisgau where the family lived, and returned to England on the 23rd. The permits were issued "probably on November 14th", the date on which the German Consulate in London issued his own visa for travelling to Germany. PG is looking for "the names of those who were covered by the permits", noting that the ones he remembers are "David's older brother Benjamin [...] and his wife's parents", but he cannot recall whether Professor Daube's parents were included. PG is asking IS whether he can suggest a way of pursuing the questions.