Scope and Content Note
The papers of Otto Fleischmann (1896-1963) span the years 1910-1985, with the bulk of the material dating from 1936 to 1960. The papers are in English, German, Hungarian, Russian, and Swedish and are organized alphabetically by subject matter and type of material.
Fleischmann had a long friendly relationship with Anna Freud, and the papers include many letters from her as well as writings, both published and unpublished. She also is represented in a file of photographs. Many photographs are from conferences, but one folder contains informal snapshots of Fleischmann, Freud, and August Aichhorn while in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1948.
Also of special interest are the papers from Fleischmann's time in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II. Included are documents provided by Raoul Wallenberg at the Swedish Foreign Ministry to Fleischmann that protected him from German Nazi authorities in 1944, including a photostatic copy of his "Schutz-Pass." There are photographs of Fleischmann and Wallenberg and documents and lists from Fleischmann's work with Wallenberg. Also in the papers are documents written by Fleischmann to Soviet and Hungarian authorities after the disappearance of Wallenberg in January of 1945. Other documents refer to Pál Szalai, the high-ranking member of the Budapest police force who helped Wallenberg in his efforts to save the Jews of Budapest.
The papers include a multivolume handwritten manuscript by the German philosopher Moritz Schlick (1882-1936). The title varies from volume to volume, but the first volume's title is "Natur, Kultur, Kunst." Schlick was one of the first to make the work of physicist Albert Einstein popularly understood.
Material relating to Sigmund Freud consists primarily of funeral orations, a medical case history, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material. However, there is one folder of photostatic copies of documents written by Freud.
Material from Fleischmann's time spent in the United States concerns his book and journal collections and a 1959 American Psychoanalytic Association panel on male homosexuality.