IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1337
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Wernham, Reverend: Correspondence
Date(s): 1937-1940
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Wernham | Reverend | fl 1937-1940 | Parish priest
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Reverend Wernham was one time parish priest at Christ Church, Forest Hill, in which parish there was also a German church. The latter's pastor, for a short time before the war, had been Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Reverend Wernham has been associated with Bishop George Bell of Chichester, who helped rescue a number of German clergy of Jewish extraction.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence of the Reverend Wernham, 1937-1940, containing letters documenting his assistance to German Jewish refugees just before and after the outbreak of World War Two. Also included is material documenting German attitudes to the political situation immediately prior to the outbreak of war.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological order
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:
Mr D. Watson
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008