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Westerbork concentration camp: report and correspondence


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1218

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Westerbork concentration camp: report and correspondence

Date(s): 1944-1959

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Bettleheim | fl 1944 | former camp inmate

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Camp Westerbork was a World War Two concentration camp in Hooghalen, ten kilometers north of Westerbork, in the northeastern Netherlands. Its function during the Second World War was to assemble Dutch Jews for transport to other Nazi concentration camps.

This report was apparently produced by a member of a resistance group asssociated with the camp by the name of Bettleheim. Nothing further is known about him.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript report into conditions at Westerbork concentration camp entitled 'Kollektive Arbeit einer Widerstandsgruppe'; also correspondence between members of Wiener Library staff and Professor David Cohen regarding the reliability of the report as a historical document, including a short paper on the subject, 1944-1959.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material:

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bettleheim

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

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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: January 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Human rights violations

Personal names
Bettleheim | fl 1944 | former camp inmate

Corporate names
Westerbork concentration camp

Places