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Buchenwald Camp Song: Papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1509

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Buchenwald Camp Song: Papers

Date(s): 1996

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Marmorek | W

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The papers in this collection pertain to a competition organised by W Marmorek to create the best English translation of a poem originally written in German concerning life in Buchenwald concentration camp.

Marmorek was originally asked to help out with the translation by a friend and former inmate of Buchenwald. He placed an advertisement in the AJR Newsletter offering a prize for the best translation.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence, 1996, on The Buchenwald Poem, chiefly comprising numerous versions of the poem in English with covering letters and a letter from Gary Wollner (formerly Gerhardt Wollner), to whom the poem was dedicated, explaining how and why the poem was written.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and German

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Marmorek, W.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names

Corporate names
Buchenwald concentration camp

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe