IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1194
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Pottlitzer family papers
Date(s): 1894-1968
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Pottlitzer family
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Pottlitzers were a German Jewish family which settled in Great Britain just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Pottlitzer family, 1894-1968, including birth, marriage and death certificates; Deutsches Reich Kennkarte (identity card) for Margot Strauss (1194/7); reference from a former employer, where Margot worked as an editor/journalist, 10 Mar 1933 (1194/3); copy of a manuscript letter from Max Pottlitzer to the Polizeiamt, Schöneberg, Berlin, in which he registers the transfer of money and property to his mother, [as required by the recently enacted law relating to the registering of Jewish property], 22 Sep 1938 (1194/4).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Mostly 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:
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:
Margot Pottlitzer
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2008