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Cahn, Sophie: Red Cross letter


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1459

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Cahn, Sophie: Red Cross letter

Date(s): 1942

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Cahn | Sophie | fl 1940-1942

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sophie Cahn was a German Jewish refugee whose father and mother, died at Minsk, Belarus and Theresienstadt, respectively, having failed to escape the Nazis.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Red Cross letters, 1942, between Sophie Cahn in Great Britain and her family in Rheydt, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, prior to their deportation.

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.

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:

Sophie Cahn

ALLIED MATERIALS

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: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Cahn | Sophie | fl 1940-1942

Corporate names

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | Western Europe | Europe