Dear Roots Web Zeisler Mail List,
The following email is being forwarded. Maybe you will be able to help ?
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:35:02 +0100
From: heuss <heuss(a)claimscon.de>
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To: royjuch(a)juch.net
Subject: Alfred Zeisler
CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY, INC.
OFFICE FOR GERMANY
Nachfolgeorganisation gemaess §2 Abs. 1 S. 2 VermG i.d.F. vom 14.7.1992
Sophienstr. 26 - D-60487 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: 069/970708-0
Fax: 069/970708-11
e-mail an Herrn Roy Juch
Dear Sir,
I got your e-mail address via Mr. Jerry Zeisler, who suggested to
contact you.
The Claims Conference is the Jewish restitution successor organization
for the property of the destroyed Jewish communities and the unclaimed
Jewish property, which was robbed by the Nazis in East-Germany. The
German reunification was the precondition for restitutions in
East-Germany (the former German Democratic Republic = DDR) according to
the "Vermoegensgesetz [VermG]" of 1990 and the will of the German
Bundestag.
The Claims Conference acts as successor organization for the unclaimed
property in the former GDR and in this function we are doing research on
Mr. Alfred Zeisler. He was a regisseur and film-producer for the UFA in
Potsdam-Babelsberg and with the upcoming of the Nazis in Germany he
emigrated via England to the USA.
In the international film-encyclopaedia from Italy (Filmlexicon degli
autori e delle opere. vol. VII. Rome 1967, p. 1776) is noticed, that
Alfred Zeisler was born as son of German-Jewish immigrants in Chicago on
August 26th, 1897. In other records are mentioned different bithdates:
1897-07-26 and 1892-09-26. The September 26th of 1892 seemed to me the
most accurate date.
Mr. Zeisler was married to the actress Lien Deyers. He died March 2nd
1985 in Comano Island/Wash.
We have tried to recieve a copy of Alfred Zeislers birth certification
from the Cook County Bureau of Vital Statistics but they didnot fund his
redord.
Do you have any information on Alfred Zeisler? We are looking especially
for a proof that he was Jewish origin.
Thank you in advance!
Yours sincerely
Claims Conferencce Nachfolgeorganisation
i.A.
Peter Heuss