IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 850
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Bendix, Otto (1878-1943) : Last letter
Date(s): 1942
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Bendix | Otto | 1878-1943
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Otto Bendix was born in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, 1878, of Jewish heritage. He married a non-Jew and was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on one of the 'old people's transports' on 3 October 1942, where he died on 8 January 1943.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Farewell letter from Otto Bendix to his wife documenting his last moments in Berlin prior to deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
This collection contains one item.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
A description of this archive exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received from a family friend, Jun 1990.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007