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Unknown Holocaust survivor


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 889

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Unknown Holocaust survivor

Date(s): 1951

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

[Lotte] was a resident of Prague; interned at Theresienstadt concentration camp, Nov 1941-Aug 1945; returned to Prague, 1945; emigrated to Canada, 1947.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript letter from [Lotte] to Isa, 4 Nov 1951, describing her life since 1940, including failed attempts to flee Europe for San Domingo and later USA, 1940; transportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp, Nov 1941, where she remained until Aug 1945, working as a nurse; return to Prague after the war and emigration to Canada, 1947.

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.

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
Emigration | Migration
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups

Personal names

Corporate names
Theresienstadt concentration camp x Terezin

Places
Canada | North America
Prague | Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe
Europe