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Menzner, Emmerich, SS Oberreiter: Letter from Poland (1942)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 703

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Menzner, Emmerich, SS Oberreiter: Letter from Poland (1942)

Date(s): 1942

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Menzner | Emmerich | fl 1939-1942 | SS cavalryman

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Little is known about the author save for that which is contained in the letter itself, namely that Emmerich Menzner was a rank and file member of an SS cavalry regiment in an unidentified part of Poland in 1942, and that he hailed from Litzmannstadt (Lodz).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from SS Oberreiter Emmerich Menzner to his friends back home, describing life in the regiment and in particular making reference to an apparent war crime which his unit carried out, 1942.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German- Sütterlin script

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:

Description exists to this archive 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 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: November 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
War crimes | Humanitarian law
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Menzner | Emmerich | fl 1939-1942 | SS cavalryman

Corporate names
SS x Schutzstaffel

Places
Lodz | Poland | Eastern Europe