Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): Family documents

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1366
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): Family documents
Date(s)	: 1908-1969
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Kaye | Evelyn | b 1930

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Walter Finkler was born in 1902 in Vienna where he studied at both a music academy and at a medical institute. Although he terminated his medical training early he had already written a number of scientific papers on a variety of subjects ranging from a study of monkey glands to the sexual behaviour of flies.

He arrived in England at the end of March, 1939, where he spent approximately the first year in the Kitchener Camp for refugees. Later he was interned on the Isle of Man. He was actively involved in the Kitchener Camp orchestra. In 1946 he trained as a food scientist in Manchester where the family lived until 1954 after which the family moved south. Walter died in 1960.

Hansi Finkler was born in 1906 and married Walter in 1927. She arrived in England in early March 1939 where she had several jobs as maid or cook in various parts of the country. Evelyn, born in 1930, had come to England in 1938 where she stayed at the 'Haven' hostel in Camden Town, a home for Jewish refugee children from Europe sponsored by the Lyons family. She was reunited with her mother in the early 1940s and they lived in a bedsit in West London where they did piece work to make ends meet.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of an Austrian Jewish family, Walter and Hansi Finkler and their daughter, Evelyn, who escaped the Nazis and come to England in 1939. Including personal papers of Walter and Hansi Finkler and Josefine Lustig, Hansi's sister, 1908-1969; official correspondence, 1938-1946; diaries, 1921-1935; correspondence, 1920s-1943 and ephemera and photographs.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German and English

System of arrangement:

Chronological by subject.

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:

Evelyn Kaye

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