IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 508
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Jewish doctors during the Nazi era: various papers (microfilm)
Date(s): 1933-1952
Level of description: collection
Extent: 245 frames
Name of creator(s): Gordon | Walter | fl 1930-1945 | doctor
Nelki | Max | fl 1939-1945 | concentration camp survivor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Walter Gordon was a Jewish doctor from Hildesheim, Lower Saxony.Max Nelki was a Jewish resident of Hamburg during the 1930s, who was sentenced to 2 years for race defilement and spent some time in a concentration camp; found refuge in Shanghai; and returned to Hamburg after the war.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Walter Gordon and Max Nelki, 1933-1952 comprising personal and official correspondence and papers of Walter Gordon and other material relating to his status as a Jewish doctor, including a questionnaire with a note relating to ethnicity, [1936]; correspondence with former commanding officers relating to his military service in World War One; instructions from the Reichsärztekammer regarding his professional remit and printed list of non-aryan and 'staatsfeindlich' doctors and dentists, published by the Krankenkasse der deutschen Angestellten, arranged alphabetically by city/ region, 1934. Papers of Max Nelki comprising typescript personal account of his experiences, 1952.
ACCESS AND 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.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Max Nelki family
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
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