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Wertheim, Baden-Württemberg: material regarding the history of the Jewish population


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1314

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Wertheim, Baden-Württemberg: material regarding the history of the Jewish population

Date(s): [1970-1990]

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Scheuermann | Karl-Josef | 1961-1997 | Former mayor of Wertheim

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This collection of documentation was generated as a result of the efforts made by the former mayor of Wertheim, Karl-Josef Scheuermann, to trace the fate of the town's Jewish population, to organise a gathering of survivors and to erect a memorial. Included is a memoir of former Jewish residents.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy letter (German) from Gerti Wachtel (26 May 1997) to her relatives, enclosing a short family history (English) of this well-to-do middle class Jewish family, who were well integrated into the small town of Wertheim, and the events following the Nazi takeover; copy cuttings, photographs and correspondence regarding the memorial to deported Jews at Wertheim and reunion of survivors, [1970-1990].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material:

German

System of arrangement:

N/A

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:

Robert Miller

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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
Memorials: monumental | Carving | Decorative arts
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Scheuermann | Karl-Josef | 1961-1997 | Former mayor of Wertheim

Corporate names

Places
Wertheim | Baden-Wurttemberg | Germany | Western Europe | Europe