Edda Tasiemka

Edda Tasiemka was a German archivist who, with her husband Hans, established a large library of about six million press cuttings which was used by authors and journalists in London—the Hans Tasiemka Archive. It was successful because it contained material from magazines and periodicals going back to the 19th century and these were otherwise hard to obtain. She continued to maintain and operate the archive for 39 years after her husband died, passing it into the care of the Hyman Archive when she was 95.