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German Foreign Office: Correspondence on Jews in Slovakia


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 570

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: German Foreign Office: Correspondence on Jews in Slovakia

Date(s): 1943-1945

Level of description: collection

Extent: c 42 frames

Name of creator(s): German Foreign and Security offices, Berlin

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Microfilm of correspondence and papers regarding the fate of Jews in Slovakia, 1943-1945, chiefly between the German Foreign and Security offices in Berlin and representatives of the regime in Pressburg (Bratislava), including letters from Karl Adolf Eichmann, SS-Obersturmbannführer. Correspondence chiefly dates from after the Slovak National Uprising, Aug-Oct 1944, which had included a relatively high percentage of Jews.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Unknown

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Microfilm. Some of the frames are barely legible.

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Mar 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Eichmann | Karl Adolf | 1906-1962 | Nazi

Corporate names

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Slovakia | Eastern Europe