Walter Samuel Lentschner papers, 1923-1986

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Series I: Chronological Files

Correspondence & documents



Box 1 Folder 1 No Date


Box 1 Folder 2 1923-1939


Box 1 Folder 3 1940


Box 1 Folder 4 1941


Box 1 Folder 5 1942


Box 1 Folder 6 1943


Box 1 Folder 7 1944-1949


Box 1 Folder 8 1952-1957


Box 1 Folder 9 1958


Box 1 Folder 10 1959


Box 1 Folder 11 1960


Box 1 Folder 12 1961


Box 1 Folder 13 1962-1963


Box 1 Folder 14 1964


Box 1 Folder 15 1965


Box 1 Folder 16 1966


Box 1 Folder 17 1967


Box 1 Folder 18 1968


Box 1 Folder 19 1969


Box 1 Folder 20 1970


Box 1 Folder 21 1971


Box 1 Folder 22 1972


Box 1 Folder 23 1973


Box 1 Folder 24 1974


Box 1 Folder 25 1975


Box 1 Folder 26 1976


Box 1 Folder 27 1977


Box 1 Folder 28 1986

Series II: Objects



Box 2 Backpack & contents used during his escape from France

Series III: Additions

Gift of Eric Zafran, 2014. Accession number: 2015.2016.M105



Box 1 Folder 29 The New Republic, 21 December 1942

Contains the article "The Mssacre of the Jews" by Varian Fry


Box 1 Folder 30 Clippings


Box 1 Folder 31 Web print-outs re. Richard Lentschner and Dr. Esther Meltzer Lentschner


Box 1 Folder 31 Letter from Eric Zafran to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library re. his uncle, Walter Lentschner, 14 August 2014