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Eyewitness accounts (of the Holocaust)


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Litten | Hans Achim | 1903-1938 | lawyer

Corporate names
Auschwitz concentration camp
Wiener Library

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Poland | Eastern Europe