Entries for ' Burian and Bunzl'
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The Bunzl Family left their home in Vienna six months after the Anschluss in 1938 and went to London. Walter Bunzl came to Atlanta in 1939 to work with the late Robert Hecht, then head of the family’s jewelry manufacturing company Burian and Bunzl. The rest of the family followed him to Atlanta by way of Brazil in 1941. Their family played an important part in Atlanta’s cultural life. The collection consists of documents relating to the immigration of the Hamburger and Bunzl families in the late 1930s. Included among the documents are German police reports and lists of goods allowed to be removed from Nazi Germany.
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Immigration, Jewish businessmen, B’nai B’rith, Hebrew Benevolent Society, Burian and Bunzl, Boy Scouts of America, Reparations