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Documents relating to Jews in Danzig (microfilm)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 509

Held at: Wiener Library

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 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:

Dr Erwin Lichtenstein and Mr Berent

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Compensation | Administration of justice
German history | European history | National history
Jews | Religious groups
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Human rights violations

Personal names
Lichtenstein | Erwin (fl 1933-1973) | writer

Corporate names
Senate of the Free City of Danzig

Places
Danzig | Germany | Western Europe | Europe