Documents relating to Jews in Danzig (microfilm)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1556 WL 509 |
Held at | : Wiener Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ › |
Full title | : Documents relating to Jews in Danzig (microfilm) |
Date(s) | : 1933-1956 |
Level of description | : Collection level |
Extent | : 68 frames |
Name of creator(s) | : Dr Erwin Lichtenstein and Mr Berent |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
This material documenting the persecution of Jews in Danzig during the 1930s was donated by two members of the former Danzig Jewish community: Mr Berent, representative of the board of the Jewish community; and Dr Erwin Lichtenstein, representative of the Danzig synagogue community and editor of the independent Danziger Rundschau, who later became a lawyer in Tel Aviv and representative of the circa 1500 strong former Danziger Jewish community in Israel.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and reports of meetings between the Danzig Jewish Community and the Senate of the Free City of Danzig regarding anti-Semitism in Danzig, 1933-1935.
Two memoranda to support a compensation/ restitution application for persecuted Danziger Jews, 1956.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
German
System of arrangement:
Chronological by group.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Dr Erwin Lichtenstein and Mr Berent
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
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:
Oct 2007
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