Irene & Ernst Marchand Collection (IEMC)
- Reference:GB 1220 PER.Marchand
- Dates of Creation:1876 - 2016
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- Language of Material:English German Hebrew
- Physical Description:4 boxes with around 1400 items
Scope and Content
A large collection of documents, photographs and memorabilia from both Irene and Ernst, donated to the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre by Ernst Marchand's family. IEMC comprises around 1,400 documents, photographs, letters, postcards and books. This includes material relating to Irene Marchand’s Lewin family in Falkenburg, Pomerania; drawings by Irene; education and health papers; 1938 documents regarding forced adoption of middle names ‘Sara’ and ‘Israel;’ correspondence regarding Irene’s domestic service visa application; shipping list of clothing, furniture and personal effects being brought by the Marchands to Scotland in 1939; Irene’s German passport and Ernst’s landing card from 1939; Irene’s work references and pension records; Ernst’s school and university reports and certificates; photographs, correspondence re Boys’ Hostel and Skelmorlie hostel and some of the residents. Please note that the following catalogue is a box list only, and related items may be found separately.
Administrative / Biographical History
Irene Marchand (nee Lewin, 1890-1976) was a Jewish widow with a young son, Ernst (1929-2000), who fled her home in Gelsenkirchen in Germany in 1939 on a domestic service visa to Edinburgh. She became matron in the Garnethill Boys’ Hostel (for Jewish refugees) up to 1948, also working for a time as cook in Birkenward Hostel in Skelmorlie. Her son Ernst was educated in Glasgow and elsewhere and graduated as an electrical engineer from the University of Glasgow.
Irene was the daughter of Isidor Lewin (d. 1920) and Minna Lewin (d. 1930), born in Falkenburg, Pomerania. Her father was proprietor of "Modehaus Isidor Lewin" [fashion shop Isidor Lewin]. Irene had a brother, Ernst Lewin, and sisters Gertrud and Frieda Lewin.
In 1911 she graduated from the Haushaltungs & Gewerbeschule fur Madchen, Falkenburg [State Domestic and Vocational School for Girls], following which she continued her education through the Sozialpadagogischen Seminars [Seminar for Social Pedagogy] at the Verein Jugendheim [Jugendheim Association], Charlottenburg [Berlin, Germany]. In 1928 she married Adolf Marchand from Gelsenkirchen (Westphalia, Germany).
Access Information
Open, subject to data protection requirements; please contact the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre to arrange access.
Acquisition Information
Donated through the Marchand family
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