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Kobylinski family: correspondence during internment


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 928

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Kobylinski family: correspondence during internment

Date(s): 1940-1945 and 1990

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Kobylinski | Else | fl 1940-1945
Kobylinski | Sigismund | fl 1940-1945

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Else and Sigismund Kobylinski were German Jewish refugees, interned on the Isle of Man in Summer and Autumn 1940. Bothcame to Great Britain in 1939, their children having emigrated some years earlier.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Kobylinski family, 1940-1945 and 1990, comprise correspondence between Else Kobylinski and Sigismund Kobylinski, 1940-1945 and biographical notes regarding the Kobylinski family and background notes to the correspondence by the depositor.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and German

System of arrangement:

Arranged in original order.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

The colleciton discovered amongst the possessions of a family member in London.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the family in 1990.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

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
Internment camps | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Kobylinski | Else | fl 1940-1945
Kobylinski | Sigismund | fl 1940-1945

Corporate names

Places