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Freyhahn, Wilhelm: description of Buchenwald

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 969

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Freyhahn, Wilhelm: description of Buchenwald

Date(s): 1938

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Bollag | Max | fl 1938

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Wilhelm Freyhahn was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp, until July 1938. Freyhahn was a representative of the Jewish community in Breslau, and guest of Max Bollag.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Willhelm Freyhahn, 1938, comprise a copy of a letter from Max Bollag, of Basel, enclosing an account of Dr Willhelm Freyhahn's experiences of Buchenwald concentration camp.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

1 item.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in 1991.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

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
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
Bollag | Max | fl 1938
Freyhahn | Willhelm | fl 1938

Corporate names
Buchenwald concentration camp

Places