Bryn Mawr College
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fritz and Karoline Solmitz papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M94
Overview
Fritz Solmitz (1893-1933) was an early and outspoken leader in the opposition to Nazism, an editor of a Social Democratic newspaper in Lübeck and a member of the City council. Because of his active opposition to the Nazis, and probably because he was a Jew, he died of mistreatment in a German prison shortly after Hitler came to power. Karoline Somitz (1893-1966) was, like her husband, active in civic affairs. Much of the collection contains letters and photographs, some translated from...
Dates:
1929 - 2006
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Dorothy Burr Thompson diaries and papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-2010-14
Overview
Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900 – 2001) was a prominent archaeologist who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1923. She specialized in Greek terracotta. Burr Thompson and her husband, Homer A. Thompson, were both heavily involved with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The collection includes her diaries, personal correspondence, and professional papers. It also includes contains both personal and research related photographs and postcards.
Dates:
1912 - 1991
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Greece 1
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- Quakers 1
- Refugees 1
- Travel 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
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