IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1267
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Eyewitness accounts (of the Holocaust)
Date(s): 1939-1956
Level of description: Collection level (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Wiener Library
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Wiener Library began collecting eyewitness accounts of people who survived the Holocaust in 1957 as part of a project funded by the Claims Conference. The collection included contemporary documentation from the period. This set comprises accounts that were never included into the main series because they were incomplete.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Various eyewitness accounts of the Nazi era and the Holocaust include persecution of a Jewish woman in Berlin during the war; account of the fate of the lawyer, Hans Litten; account of the activities of war criminals in Auschwitz and situation for the Jews in Poland.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and French
System of arrangement:
Arranged in original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use but application must be made for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Description exists at the Wiener Library website www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Wiener Library
ALLIED MATERIALS
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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