IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 880
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Sekretariat Warburg
Date(s): 1975
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Solnitz | Robert | fl 1938-1975 | head of Sekretariat Warburg
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Sekretariat Warburg was a charitable and cultural centre for Hamburg Jews, 1938-1941, whose objective was to assist Jews in Hamburg during the Nazi era and was funded by the Warburg banking family. Robert Solnitz was the head of the organisation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript copy of a report, 1975, on the Sekretariat Warburg, by Robert Solnitz, former head of the organisation, including mention of Dr. Josef Carlebach, the Chief Rabbi of Hamburg, who gave his life in order to stay with his congregation; Claus Göttschethe, Gestapo head of the Jewish department, Hamburg, in relation to assistance to Hamburg's Jews and Max Plaut, the leader of Hamburg's Jewish community.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
N/A
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
Accruals:
Archival history:
The report was written in Los Angeles in 1975.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2008