IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 612
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener: reports and statistics about concentration camps
Date(s): 1945
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 2 files
Name of creator(s): Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener was founded in the immediate post-World War Two years to represent the interests of former political prisoners. In 1947 it changed its name to the Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes to include all those who suffered under the Nazis. This anti-fascist organisation still exists with branches all over Germany.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers compiled by the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener, 1945, including original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau and papers on topics including political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Fragile. Use surrogates.
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
The reports were sent to Paul Anderson by Hans Schwarz and Franz Heitgres of the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener in order that he might get them published in The Observer newspaper where he worked as a journalist, the intention being to disseminate information about what happened during the war more widely.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Evelyn Anderson
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007