IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1444
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
Date(s): 1934-1963
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher, Centre for the Documentaion of Jehovah's Witnesses, is based in Italy and has no affiliation to any religious denomination.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers regarding the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Nazi era, 1934-1963, include copies of forms with personal details of concentration camp inmates; verdicts in Nazi court cases relating to refusal to bear arms; lists of concentration camp inmates; Gestapo correspondence and testimonies of Jehovah's Witnesses.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German, French and Italian
System of arrangement:
Chronological by material type.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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:
Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher.
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: March 2008