IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 509
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Documents relating to Jews in Danzig (microfilm)
Date(s): 1933-1956
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 68 frames
Name of creator(s): Dr Erwin Lichtenstein and Mr Berent
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This material documenting the persecution of Jews in Danzig during the 1930s was donated by two members of the former Danzig Jewish community: Mr Berent, representative of the board of the Jewish community; and Dr Erwin Lichtenstein, representative of the Danzig synagogue community and editor of the independent Danziger Rundschau, who later became a lawyer in Tel Aviv and representative of the circa 1500 strong former Danziger Jewish community in Israel.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and reports of meetings between the Danzig Jewish Community and the Senate of the Free City of Danzig regarding anti-Semitism in Danzig, 1933-1935.
Two memoranda to support a compensation/ restitution application for persecuted Danziger Jews, 1956.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
Chronological by group.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Dr Erwin Lichtenstein and Mr Berent
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
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