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Caro, Jella: Letter from Theresienstadt


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1339

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Caro, Jella: Letter from Theresienstadt

Date(s): 1945

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Caro | Jella | 1868-1968

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author of this letter, Jella Caro, was the sister-in-law of the depositor's grandmother. She was 77 years old at the time of writing and lived to the age of 100. She was over 90 years old before she received any compensation for her suffering. In the letter she describes the deleterious effect on her health of 3 years in Terezin. Freezing cold and alone at an address in post-war Vienna, which functioned as a home for Jewish returnees, she describes how pleased she is to hear from her (unidentified) relatives and asks after them.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Jella Caro, 1945, comprise a letter from Caro, a former Terezin inmate, to relatives.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

1 item.

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:

Margaret Kahn.

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
Compensation | Administration of justice
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Kinship | Family

Personal names
Caro | Jella | 1868-1968

Corporate names
Theresienstadt concentration camp

Places