Emigrant Letters from North America

Project to collect, secure, systematize and analyze 19th and 20th-century letters from German emigrants in the United States and Canada. Principal area of investigation: former East Germany

The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Project Management

• Prof. Ursula Lehmkuhl

in cooperation with

• HD Dr. Stephan Elspaß, Universität Münster
• Prof. Dr. Walter Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
• Prof. i.R. Dr. Wolfgang Helbich, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha

Further information (in German) can be found on the project's website http://www.auswandererbriefe.de/