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Merzbach family papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1236

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Merzbach family papers

Date(s): 1793-1924

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Merzbach family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Wilhelm Merzbach was director of the family business, Bankhaus S Merzbach.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters of condolence from colleagues in the banking world on the death of Wilhelm Merzbach, 1924. In additon there are some original and copy documents dating back to the era of the ghetto and the 'protected Jew'.

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

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Hedwig Merzbach

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: February 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
German history | European history | National history
Jews | Religious groups
Racial segregation | Interethnic relations
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Racial discrimination

Personal names
Merzbach | Wilhelm | fl 1924 | bank director

Corporate names

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe