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Goldschmied family papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1319

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Goldschmied family papers

Date(s): 1938-1971

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Adler | Ellinor | b 1925 | née Goldschmied
Goldschmied | Maria | fl 1938-1971
Goldschmied | Alwin | fl 1938-1971

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The papers in this collection document the fate of a Jewish mixed race family in Vienna during the Nazi era. The depositor's father, Alwin Goldschmied, was arrested in April 1938 by the Gestapo and eventually perished in Auschwitz having reached there via Drancy. The daughter, the depositor, Ellinor, came to England in 1939 with the assistance of the Quakers. Maria Goldschmied, the depositor's mother, seems to have spent the majority of the war in a small town called Stiefern with relatives some 90 km from Vienna. In August 1946 she came to England.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Goldschmied family papers, 1938-1971, document the fate of a Jewish mixed race family in Vienna during the Nazi era and notably include passport ID cards and correspondence, personal accounts by Maria Goldschmied and photographs.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Ellinor Adler.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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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: February 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Jews | Religious groups
Letter writing | Writing | Communication skills | Communication process
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Personal narratives | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Photographs | Visual materials
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Adler | Ellinor | b 1925 | née Goldschmied
Goldschmied | Alwin | fl 1938-1971
Goldschmied | Maria | fl 1938-1971

Corporate names

Places
Vienna | Austria | Western Europe | Europe