IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 873
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Rosenstock, Hugo (fl 1940-1941), memoirs of internment
Date(s): 1940-1941
Level of description: Collection level (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Rosenstock | Hugo | fl 1940-1941
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hugo Rosenstock came from a family of German Jews in Berlin. Having emigrated to Great Britain after the outbreak of World War Two, he was interned on the Isle of Man.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Memoirs from the internment of Hugo Rosenstock during 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of two items: an original illustrated account of life as an internee of an internment camp on Douglas, Isle of Man, 1940-1941 and an undated typescript family history by another family member. The first item comprises a series of individual sketches of camp life mostly in verse form, which have subsequently been bound together and foliated. There is a contents page, though no introduction completes the volume.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
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:
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:
Karla Emmanuel
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: December 2007