Husserl Archive

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    Nazi Germany

    28 февраля 1933 — 23 мая 1945
  • The Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze, pronounced [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁɡɐ ɡəˈzɛtsə] (listen)) were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
  • Edmund Husserl died

  • Van Breda travelled to Freiburg

    On 29 August 1938, as the Czech crisis began brewing, Van Breda travelled to Freiburg and met her and Eugen Fink; together they showed him the collection.
  • manuscripts moved to Konstanz

    It seemed the best option available, however, so on 19 September the heroic Sister Adelgundis loaded three heavy suitcases with 40,000 manuscript pages, and set off by train to Konstanz.
  • moved to Berlin

    So, on 22 September — the day Chamberlain met Hitler and learned that Hitler had upped his demands on Czech territory — Van Breda travelled to the convent. He collected the suitcases and continued to Berlin on a night train.
  • moved to embassy safe

    At last, on Saturday 24 September, Van Breda saw them locked away in the embassy safe.
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    transported from Berlin to Louvain

    As a side effect, the peace deal reduced the urgency about getting Husserl’s papers out of Germany. It was not until November 1938 that the bulk of them were transported from Berlin to Louvain.
  • Munich Agreement

  • Malvine Husserl moved to Belgium

    That November, Van Breda returned to Freiburg. Malvine Husserl had now decided to seek a visa so as to join her son and daughter in the US, but this took a long time, so in the meantime Van Breda arranged for her to move to Belgium. She arrived in Louvain in June 1939, joining Fink and Landgrebe, who had moved there in the spring and were getting to work.
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    World War II

    1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
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    Belgium under occupation

    10—28 мая 1940 года
    2 сентября 1944 — 4 февраля 1945
  • Капитуляция Бельгии

    The Belgian Army surrendered on 28 May 1940, ending the battle.
  • Malvine Husserl went to America

    Malvine Husserl lived out the whole war in Louvain. Only after it ended, in May 1946, aged eighty-six, did she manage to join her children in America for her last few years of life.
  • Malvine Husserl died

    She died on 21 November 1950