Mala Laaser Collection., 1938-1980.

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Summary

Abstract:
Correspondence and manuscript material of Mala Laaser, a German Jewish writer of the 1930s and 1940s and refugee to England. Materials are in English and German and focus on social criticism.
Extent:
1 linear feet
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Mala Laaser Collection., D-315, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence and manuscript material of Mala Laaser, a German Jewish writer of the 1930s and 1940s and refugee to England. Materials are in English and German and focus on social criticism.

Biographical / historical:

Amalie Eva Ruth Laaser (Mala Laaser) was born on July 19, 1911 in Königsberg (East Prussia/Germany). Mala Laaser was a journalist and writer in Berlin in the mid and late 1930s. She left Germany in 1939 and fleed to the Unitied Kingdom beause of the Nazi persecution of Jews. While in the UK, she worked in domestic service where she worked her way from maid to school mistress. In 1946, she got engaged and married to Henry Moyes and they had a daughter together later that year.Laaser passed away in Glasgow on March 23, 1953.

Sources:

Donor's notes

Brockbank, Conor. 2023. German and Austrian Refugees in Domestic Service in Ceredigion during the Second World War: Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn Fawr. Refugees from National Socialism in Wales. https://wp-research.aber.ac.uk/nsrefugeeswales/aber-lb-refugee-domestics/

Acquisition information:
Gift of M. Kay Flavell, retired Associate Professor of the humanities at UC Davis.
Processing information:

This collection was formerly named the M. Kay Flavell Collection. At the behest of the donor (M. Kay Flavell), it was renamed to the Mala Laaser Collection.

Physical location:
Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Mala Laaser Collection., D-315, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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