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Czech and Czech Jewish Immigrants in Great Britain


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 754

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Czech and Czech Jewish Immigrants in Great Britain

Date(s): 1943

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Jewish Central Information Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers documenting the activities of organisations in Great Britain, involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era, 1943, comprising appeal by Czechoslovak Relief Action for donations to a fund to supply provisions to internees in Terezin, Oct 1943; pamphlet entitled 'Proposals for principles for the repatriation of deported Jews' published by the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, Oct 1943; transcript of speeches in aid of a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's independence by the Anglo-Palestine club and the National Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia, Nov 1943; report of a speech made by the president of the Czechoslovak Government in exile, regarding the restitution of illegally obtained property during the Nazi occupation, Oct 1943 and Ing. A. Frischer's report of a speech made by Frantiska Nemce, minister of economic renewal, Oct 1943.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Czech and English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed description 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:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Emigration | Migration
Exiles | Migrants
Jews | Religious groups
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
Refugees | Migrants
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names

Corporate names
Terezienstadt concentration camp

Places
Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe