IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1149
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Grossbard family: Correspondence
Date(s): 1922-1962
Level of description: collection
Extent: 8 files
Name of creator(s): Grossbard | Siegfried | fl 1922-1963
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Siegfried Grossbard was a Jewish refugee from Vienna who eventually became resident in Great Britain, after having spent time as an inmate of Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters from friends and family to Siegfried Grossbard, 1922-1962, on topics including the Richborough Internment Camp and the German Jewish Aid Committee; reference to Lingfield Internment camp and of experiences as an internee in Australia; brother-in-law, Erwin's account of survival of the occupation in France; conditions in Germany during the immediate postwar era, from ex-internee, Roger Freeman; claims for restitution relating to the Aryanisation of the Grossbard family business; and letters from Otto Morawetz to Grossbard regarding family and friends and life in the USA.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
System of arrangement:
The material has been arranged chronologically into two groups: correspondence and papers from friends, family and others,1149/1/1-291; correspondence from Otto Morawetz, 1149/2/1-166.
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:
Michael Gordon
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: January 2008