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Weisz, Josef: copy papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1222

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Weisz, Josef: copy papers

Date(s): 1945

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Weisz | Josef | b 1893-fl 1945

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Josef Weisz was born near Köln in 1893, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1933; was arrested and sent to Westerbork in January 1942; sent to Bergen Belsen in January 1944; liberated on 10 April 1945.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy letter from Josef Weisz in Loosdrecht, Netherlands to his family, 1945, in which he describes his experiences as an inmate in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen concentration camps; copy statement made by Josef Weisz regarding his experiences as a victim of Nazi persecution, Amsterdam; copy part statement made by Josef Weisz regarding conditions in Bergen Belsen.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material:

German

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

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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: January 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Weisz | Josef | b 1893-fl 1945

Corporate names
Bergen Belsen concentration camp x Belsen
Westerbork concentration camp

Places
Amsterdam | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe