IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 528
Held at: Wiener Library
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 AND 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.
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. George F. J. Bergmann
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also WL 616
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2007