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Czech refugee in Great Britain: account of flight into exile

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 755

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Czech refugee in Great Britain: account of flight into exile

Date(s): 1939

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author is a former Czech civil servant who fled with his wife from Czechoslovakia to England, via Katovice, Poland in 1939.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript report, 1939, describing the experiences of a former Czech civil servant and his wife as they escape from Prague via Katovice to England. The report offers a valuable insight into the difficulties encountered by Czech émigrés in the immediate aftermath of the German occupation in 1939.

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.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.