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Walters-Kohn, Eric (b 1906)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1154

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Walters-Kohn, Eric (b 1906)

Date(s): 1886-1994

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Walters-Kohn | Eric | b 1906 | concentration camp survivor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Eric Walters-Kohn was born in Vienna in 1906; incarcerated in Dachau and Buchenwald, and came to Great Britain in 1939. Many of his family members died in the Holocaust including his mother.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Material, 1886-1994, comprising copies of published and unpublished documents including a dedication to the mayor of Koritschen by members of the Jewish community; article by Eric Walters-Kohn, March 1994 on his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald; copy of an article by Eric Walters-Kohn from Die Gemeinde, (the official paper of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien), 15 March 1994, regarding the life of Dr Louis Poborski, a distant relative, and formerly close friend of Theodor Herzl.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material:

German and English

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

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:

Eric Walters-Kohn

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: January 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
Third reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Walters-Kohn | Eric | b 1906 | concentration camp survivor

Corporate names
Buchenwald concentration camp
Dachau concentration camp
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde x Jewish Community

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe