Eyewitness accounts (of the Holocaust)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1267
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Eyewitness accounts (of the Holocaust)
Date(s)	: 1939-1956
Level of description	: Collection level (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Wiener Library

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Wiener Library began collecting eyewitness accounts of people who survived the Holocaust in 1957 as part of a project funded by the Claims Conference. The collection included contemporary documentation from the period. This set comprises accounts that were never included into the main series because they were incomplete.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Various eyewitness accounts of the Nazi era and the Holocaust include persecution of a Jewish woman in Berlin during the war; account of the fate of the lawyer, Hans Litten; account of the activities of war criminals in Auschwitz and situation for the Jews in Poland.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German and French

System of arrangement:

Arranged in original order.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use but application must be made for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists at the Wiener Library website www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Wiener Library

Allied Materials

Related material:

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:
February 2008