IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 570b
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Pakuscher, Rolf (c 1916-1946): report of the closure of Auschwitz
Date(s): 1945
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 20 frames
Name of creator(s): Pakuscher | Rolf | [1916-1946]
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author, Rolf Pakuscher, was the nephew of Frank Martin (formerly Martin F Salomon), a former Pioneers Corps comrade of the depositor. Pakuscher is described as being approximately 30 years of age in 1946, engaged to a young, non-Jewish woman.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Report and report transcript regarding the closing of Auschwitz, the subsequent march to Sachsenhausen and the liberation entitled: 'Bericht über die Auflösung des Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, Lager 3 (Buna) und des Heinkel-Lagers'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
N/A
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:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The depositor met and received the report from Rolf Pakuscher when he went to Hamburg in 1946 whilst working for the Control Commission.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Depositor's name illegible
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2007