IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1310
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Cohn, Chaja: Memoirs of German Jewish exile
Date(s): 20th century
Level of description: Collection level (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Cohn | Chaja | fl 1997
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Chaja Cohn, a former refugee residing in Israel, was responsible for collecting these accounts.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Chaja Cohn comprise the story of Vogelei Bilekowicz, who describes the persecution and murder by the Nazis of members of her Jewish community in Przemyst, Poland, and the subsequent exodus of her and her family; the story of Esther Jonas-Leiner-Bauer, Jewish refugee from Hamburg; the story of Alfons and Margarete Pietrowski, Jewish refugees from Posen, Poland and miscellaneous stories.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in original order.
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
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Chaja Cohn
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008