Curt Silberman

Thomas Dehler and Curt Silberman in 1967

Curt C. Silberman (1908 in Würzburg, Germany as Kurt Leo Silbermann^[1] - 2002 in Livingston, NJ) was a German-Jewish and American attorney, community leader, and member of Jewish organizations in both Germany and the United States. After he fled Germany in 1938, he and his wife Else settled in New Jersey. His legal career in the United States focused on restitution work for the victims of the Nazi government.^[2]

Jewish Organizations

Silberman was active in many Jewish organizations. He was a co-founder of the Leo Baeck Institute, and for a period of time, the head of American Federation of Jews from Central Europe^[3] and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.^[4]

External links

• Guide to the Curt C. Silberman Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
• Oral history interview with Curt Silberman

References

1. "Silberman, Curt Charles geb. Silbermann Kurt Leo". Biographische Datenbank Jüdisches Unterfranken. Johanna-Stahl-Zentrum. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
2. "Paid Notice: Deaths SILBERMAN, DR. CURT C.". The New York Times. p. 12.
3. Eli Lederhendler (2001). New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity: 1950-1970. Syracuse University Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8156-0711-3. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
4. "Curt C. Silberman." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2015-11-13.