Spotlight on: Zygmunt William Birnbaum Papers

Accession Number

5266-001

The Zygmunt William Birnbaum Collection contains materials documenting Dr. Birnbaum's career as a mathematician and his service to the University of Washington and includes: correspondence, diaries, and drafts of unpublished materials. In addition, it contains correspondence with family members documenting his efforts to assist immigration from Nazi Occupied Poland and his involvement with the Loyalty Oath suit filed against the University in 1964. Click here for the full finding aid to this collection.

This Spotlight consists of digitized copies of selected correspondence from the Birnbaum Collection, along with their English language translations.  The correspondence is arranged by correspondant, and can be found by clicking on the image map on this page.  Selections and translations from the original Polish were all made by Artur Rosman, a native Polish speaker, who performed the intial survey of this Collection.