Skip to main content

Ida Herz Papers

Ida Herz was a bookseller from Nuremberg, who became a friend of Thomas Mann in 1924, and was asked by him in 1925 to organise his library in Munich. She was an avid collector of material about Mann and amassed over 3,000 newspaper articles about Mann from over 20 countries. Herz was forced to flee Germany in 1935, and lived in London for the rest of her life. She deposited her correspondence with Mann and her Mann collection with the Thomas Mann archive in Zurich in 1960.

Search the Catalogue

Search now