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Jewish doctors during the Nazi era: various papers (microfilm)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 508

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Jewish doctors during the Nazi era: various papers (microfilm)

Date(s): 1933-1952

Level of description: collection

Extent: 245 frames

Name of creator(s): Gordon | Walter | fl 1930-1945 | doctor
Nelki | Max | fl 1939-1945 | concentration camp survivor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Walter Gordon was a Jewish doctor from Hildesheim, Lower Saxony.Max Nelki was a Jewish resident of Hamburg during the 1930s, who was sentenced to 2 years for race defilement and spent some time in a concentration camp; found refuge in Shanghai; and returned to Hamburg after the war.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Walter Gordon and Max Nelki, 1933-1952 comprising personal and official correspondence and papers of Walter Gordon and other material relating to his status as a Jewish doctor, including a questionnaire with a note relating to ethnicity, [1936]; correspondence with former commanding officers relating to his military service in World War One; instructions from the Reichsärztekammer regarding his professional remit and printed list of non-aryan and 'staatsfeindlich' doctors and dentists, published by the Krankenkasse der deutschen Angestellten, arranged alphabetically by city/ region, 1934. Papers of Max Nelki comprising typescript personal account of his experiences, 1952.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Chronological by group

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Microfilm

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Max Nelki family

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.