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Beck, Hedwig: restitution claim


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 823

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Beck, Hedwig: restitution claim

Date(s): 1936-1959

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Beck family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Hedwig, Pauline and Sabina Beck were Czech sisters. Hedwig and Pauline emigrated to France during World War Two. Sabina Bauml (née Beck) was transported to Auschwitz with her son in January 1944.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1936-1959, relating to an application made by two Czech sisters, Hedwig and Pauline Beck, for compensation for possessions stolen by the Nazis from their sister, Sabina Bauml (née Beck), including translations of residency permits; inventories of possessions confiscated by the Nazis; affidavits from friends and acquaintances in support of the application for compensation and post war correspondence between the French authorities and the Beck sisters relating to compensation.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French and German

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.

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
Compensation | Administration of justice
Jews | Religious groups
Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Beck | Hedwig | fl 1944

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe