(see: M. Gillis-Carlebach, The Joseph Carlebach Archives, Petach Tikva-New York, 1976)
After the war Rabbi Joseph Carlebach’s son, Shlomo Carlebach, came back. After having passed through several concentration camps and many forced migrations, he returned to Hamburg. Strangers were living in Chief Rabbi Joseph Carlebach’s former home at Haller Street 76…
One day Rabbi Shlomo was asked to come to Wilhelminenhöhe in Blankenese in order to look at some prayer books and other items which had been found and to decide which ones could still be used. One of his helpers found two letters with Rabbi Joseph Carlebach’s signature. They found out that these letters came from Rabbi Joseph Carlebach’s former archives. There was material regarding the Talmud Torah School in Hamburg, rabbinical correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and much more.
Later on, when Shlomo immigrated to the United States, he took all of this material with him.
Among the documents was a little envelope containing letters from my mother, Lotte Carlebach née Preuss, addressed to my father, Rabbi Joseph Carlebach, and letters and drawings from my brothers and sisters from the years 1923 to 1935. These were private letters and from them we learned what great demands were made on Lotte Carlebach and what important responsibilities she had to fulfill also later on during the years of horror as the Rabbi’s wife and mother of nine children.
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