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Account of life in a Polish ghetto


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1244

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Account of life in a Polish ghetto

Date(s): 1942

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers comprising an account of life in a Polish ghetto, 1942, contain copy extracts from a letter by a Jewish woman in a ghetto in Poland, in which she describes the horrendous living conditions. Mention is made of the immanent arrival of a Swiss commission of inspection.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German and English

System of arrangement:

1 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:

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:

This typescript copy account of life in an unidentified Polish ghetto commences with a note in English that the letter extracts were received in New York from Switzerland. It is also headed 'strictly confidential, for your personal information only' and annotated with the date May 1942.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

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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: February 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Jews | Religious groups
Living conditions | Economic conditions
Racial segregation | Interethnic relations
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Poland | Eastern Europe