IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1320
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Perks, Lisbeth
Date(s): 1938-1943
Level of description: Collection level (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Perks | Lisbeth | fl 1930-1950 | music teacher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Lisbeth Perks was born into a Jewish family in Vienna c 1930; came to Great Britain as a refugee, 1939. Whilst bringing up her family she studied pianoforte with Herbert Sumison and Kendall Taylor and gained an associateship of the Royal College of Music. She has taught in many schools and at her own home.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence of Lisbeth Perks, music teacher and Jewish refugee to Great Britain, 1938-1943, including from internees in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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:
Lisbeth Perks
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
Fischer Leicht, Lisbeth The Unsung Years: My Youth 1930-1945 (Minerva Press, London, 1997).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008