IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 629
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Courts, Mrs Ben (b 1908): personal papers
Date(s): 1938-1946
Level of description: Collection level (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Courts | Mrs Ben | b 1908 | née Ella Mayer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Ella Mayer was born in a village in the Rhine Palatinate in 1908, the daughter of a kosher butcher in a small Jewish community. In 1932 both Ella and her sister were brought to England to stay with an English uncle, who had lived in London since before the First World War. Having already met Ben Courts, on the threat of enforced return to Germany, due to the immanent expiry of her visa, they married and she made London her permanent home.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Mrs Ben Courts personal papers, 1938-1946, comprise correspondence mostly from friends and family members in Germany to Mrs Ben Courts 1938-1946, (629/1), much of this material is immediately pre war and relates to requests by unidentifiable individuals for sponsorship to settle in England; Central Office for Refugees Domestic Bureau printed material including terms and conditions and registration information, 1939 (629/2) and biographical notes on Mrs Ben Courts by her son Hugh Courts, [1938-1946] (629/3).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
System of arrangement:
Chronological by subject
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Ben Courts
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
For a more detailed biography of Mrs Ben Courts see WL 629/3.
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007