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Bing family papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 867

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Bing family papers

Date(s): 1843-2004

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Bing family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Bing family was a German Jewish family from Berlin some of whose members died in the Holocaust and others managed to escape to Great Britain.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The Bing family papers, 1843-2004, comprise four separate deposits; copy letters from Mathilde (Tilly) Bing in a detention hostel in Berlin prior to deportation to the East to von Pappritz, 1943 (867/1); copy papers regarding the fine incurred by Clara Bing for not including the name Sara, depicting her Jewish ethnicity, 1939 (867/2); copy correspondence and papers of Heinz Bing, 1843-1945 (867/3) and various transcript correspondence including a letter from Fritz Mecklenburg to Heinz Bing, 2004 (867/4).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Except for the transcript material (867/3/5-7) the material is in German.

System of arrangement:

Chronological by deposit

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:

Mrs G. I. Bing

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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: December 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Third reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Bing | Clara | fl 1939-1943
Bing | Mathilde | fl 1939-1943

Corporate names

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe