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Sabatsky, Kurt: reports on leading Nazis and Jewish persecution


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 874

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Sabatsky, Kurt: reports on leading Nazis and Jewish persecution

Date(s): 20th century

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Sabatsky | Kurt | fl. 1938 | District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Judischen Glaubens

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Kurt Sabatsky was District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript reports by Kurt Sabatsky about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution including a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representatives of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, seeking reassurance that Jews would not be victimised; report on Buchenwald concentration camp and account of Sabatsky's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Original order

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:

Provenance is unknown but they appear to have been typed at around the same time, which suggests that either they are copies of earlier reports or they were written from memory.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also Wiener Library Unpublished Memoir 4030: Meine Erinnerungen an der Nationalsozialismus by Kurt Sabatsky.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Mar 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Human rights violations

Personal names
Goering | Hermann Wilhelm | 1893-1946 | Nazi politico-miltary leader and Reichsmarshall
Koch | Eric | 1896-1986 | war criminal
Wiener | Alfred | 1885-1964 | founder of the Wiener Library

Corporate names
Buchenwald concentration camp
Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens x Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith

Places