{"id":1033,"date":"2023-11-03T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/holocaust-education\/2023\/11\/03\/szneer-and-lubenewski-families-papers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:34:30","slug":"szneer-and-lubenewski-families-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/holocaust-education\/2023\/11\/03\/szneer-and-lubenewski-families-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Szneer and Lubenewski Families' Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2026there is something utterly mysterious in old photographs, that they are almost designed to be lost, they\u2019re in an album which vanishes in an attic or in a box, and if they come to light they do accidentally, you stumble upon them. The way in which these stray pictures cross your paths, it has something at once totally coincidental and fateful about it. Then of course you begin to puzzle over them, and it\u2019s from that that much of the desire to write about them comes.\u201d<\/strong> [1]<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 W.G. Sebald<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Isabelle (left) and Leopold Szneer (right) in Blankenberge, Belgium, 1949 [2]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On November 7, 2023, the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education will commemorate Kristallnacht<\/em><\/a>, the series of pogroms against the Jews of Germany and Austria by the Nazis that took place November 9 – 10, 1938. The Oskar Schindler Archive<\/a> holds materials from Jewish Holocaust survivors who witnessed the Night of Broken Glass. Among them is Cantor Leopold Szneer who was born on December 21, 1921, in Munich, Germany. From an early age, he studied Chazanut (cantorial singing) and performed as a soloist in his synagogue’s choir. Post-World War II, he emigrated to the United States with his wife, Isabelle, and settled in Los Angeles where he served as Cantor at the Congregation Mogen David in Los Angeles, California for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

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Leopold Szneer singing, circa 1946-1960 [3]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kristallnacht<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Leopold was arrested during Kristallnacht<\/em> and sent to Dachau concentration camp<\/a>. On the 75th<\/sup> anniversary of Kristallnacht<\/em> at Chapman University, he recounted his experience<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI wanted absolutely to see my synagogue. My parents, may they rest in peace, never agreed to this. A day goes by, another day, it is November the 12th. And I did like some other kids do today, not listen to my parents and I swindled myself out. I went to the synagogue\u2026 it was a catastrophe. And people were around there and were speaking to each other\u2026so I said to the people, \u201cisn\u2019t it a shame what they did to this synagogue?\u201d But it didn\u2019t take long, I was taken from both sides. Two men\u2026 take me away. Where did they take me? To Dachau. I was sixteen years old.\u201d <\/strong>[4]<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fragments and Traces<\/strong><\/h3>\n

During this past summer, while completing a reference request, I stumbled across stamps on the back of three photographs. They were portraits of Leopold, and his mother, Dwojre (Dora) Szneer<\/a> and youngest sister, Hanna Szneer. The stamps piqued my curiosity because they retained the dates: November 8, 1938, one day before Kristallnacht, and November 15, 1938.<\/p>\n

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It is likely these photographs were intended for passports which would document the Szneers\u2019 attempt to leave Munich, Germany shortly before Kristallnacht<\/em>. But by the time Leopold\u2019s photograph was developed on November 15, 1938, he had already been arrested only three days prior and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp.<\/p>\n

While observing the photographs, you will notice the information on the back of Leopold\u2019s differs from the rest. Hanna and Dora\u2019s photographs were developed on November 8, 1938 (one day before Kristallnacht<\/em>); however, Leopold\u2019s photograph was not developed until November 15, 1938. Leopold\u2019s photograph also contains \u201cIsrael\u201d before his name, following anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany<\/a>. The law required all German Jews bearing first names of \u201cnon-Jewish\u201d origin to adopt an additional name: \u201cIsrael\u201d for men and \u201cSara\u201d for women.<\/p>\n

You will also notice the stamps are faded in different spots, but a complete picture can be discerned when viewing all three photographs together. The spot where one stamp is faded, the ink on the other two stamps is bold enough to fill in the missing information, thus making the stamp legible. The photographic studio stamp belongs to: Largolli-Foto, M\u00fcnchen, Rindermarkt 10 [Largolli-Photo, Munich, Rindermarkt 10]. Through further research, I discovered photographs with the same Largolli-Foto stamp on the University of Oregon’s Mir Website<\/a> and in Constanze Werner\u2019s Kiew-M\u00fcnchen-Kiew: Schicksale ukrainischer Zwangsarbeiter.<\/em><\/a>[8]<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Archival Value<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Szneer photographs are important historical resources for both research and visual commemoration. As an archivist, identifying information on the back of the photographs helps me create descriptive metadata to improve discoverability for researchers. But they are also fragments of a life and history waiting to be discovered further.<\/p>\n

A former 2019-2023 Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, Glenn Kurtz writes about piecing together such fragments from multiple archival materials in his book, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film<\/em>. Over the course of 4 years, he attempted to identify the people in his grandfather\u2019s three-minute film of the Jewish community in the Polish village of Nasielsk in 1938. Kurtz writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cFragments of memory intersected with fragments of film, with fragments found in the few documents that exist, in postcards, letters, photographs, and artifacts. And in the interconnections of these surviving fragments, I began to catch fleeting glimpses of the living town\u2026Like my grandfather\u2019s film, the fragmentary history I assembled preserves a little of the town\u2019s vibrant complexity, the details that made its life and death distinct from others and made these people different from millions like them.\u201d<\/strong>[9]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Are you interested in discovering more about this collection? Dig into the Szneer and Lubenewski families papers<\/a> in the Oskar Schindler Archive reading room.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> James Wood, \u201cAn Interview with W.G. Sebald,\u201d Brick, A Literary Journal, <\/em>no. 59 (Spring 1998): https:\/\/brickmag.com\/an-interview-with-w-g-sebald\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Isabelle and Leopold couple, bulk: 1946 – 1949, document-box: 2, Folder: 5. Szneer and Lubenewski families papers, (2020-006-h-r.), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA. https:\/\/chapman.lyrasistechnology.org\/repositories\/5\/archival_objects\/5780<\/a>\u00a0 Accessed October 25, 2023.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Leopold Szneer, bulk: 1946 – 1960, document-box: 2, Folder: 2. Szneer and Lubenewski families papers, (2020-006-h-r), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA. https:\/\/chapman.lyrasistechnology.org\/repositories\/5\/archival_objects\/5777<\/a>\u00a0 Accessed October 25, 2023.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Chapman University, \u201cHolocaust Survivor Cantor Leopold Szneer’s Perspective on Kristallnacht,\u201d Youtube Video, 8:06, September 22, 2014, \u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_0uWFN5rpjw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Leopold Szneer, bulk: 1922 – 1938, document-box: 2, Folder: 1. Cantor Leopold and Isabelle Szneer collection, (2020-006-h-r.), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA. https:\/\/chapman.lyrasistechnology.org\/repositories\/5\/archival_objects\/5776<\/a> Accessed October 18, 2023.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Moses and Dora Szneer, bulk: 1930 – 1938, document-box: 2, Folder: 12. Cantor Leopold and Isabelle Szneer collection, (2020-006-h-r.), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA. https:\/\/chapman.lyrasistechnology.org\/repositories\/5\/archival_objects\/5788<\/a> Accessed October 18, 2023.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Szneer family portraits, bulk: 1922 – 1934, document-box: 2, Folder: 10. Cantor Leopold and Isabelle Szneer collection, (2020-006-h-r.), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA. https:\/\/chapman.lyrasistechnology.org\/repositories\/5\/archival_objects\/5786<\/a> Accessed October 18, 2023.<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Constanze Werner and Verein Projekt Erinnerung e.V. 2000. Kiew-Mu\u0308nchen-Kiew : Schicksale Ukrainischer Zwangsarbeiter<\/em>. (Mu\u0308nchen: Buchendorfer, 2000), 46, 93,129.<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film,<\/em> First paperback ed. (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015), 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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