Bergmann, G.F.J. (1900-): material relating to Jewish alpinists in Germany (microfilm)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 528
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Bergmann, G.F.J. (1900-): material relating to Jewish alpinists in Germany (microfilm)
Date(s)	: 1923-1928
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 100 frames
Name of creator(s)	: Bergmann | George F J | fl 1923-1945 | mountaineer

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dr. George F.J. Bergmann was a German Jew who enrolled in the French Foreign Legion as a foreign national living in France in 1939. He was later interned in the notorious prison, Hadjerat M'Guil, in French North Africa and later fought for the British in a pioneer corps company. His origins are not known. He emigrated to Australia after the war. Evidently he was a keen mountaineer.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Various issues of alpinist journals and correspondence on, amongst other things, the involvement of Jews in the sport of mountaineering, 1923-1928.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Dr. George F. J. Bergmann

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also WL 616

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

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:
Oct 2007