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Bendix, Otto (1878-1943) : Last letter


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 850

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Bendix, Otto (1878-1943) : Last letter

Date(s): 1942

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Bendix | Otto | 1878-1943

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Otto Bendix was born in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, 1878, of Jewish heritage. He married a non-Jew and was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on one of the 'old people's transports' on 3 October 1942, where he died on 8 January 1943.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Farewell letter from Otto Bendix to his wife documenting his last moments in Berlin prior to deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

This collection contains one item.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A description of this archive exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from a family friend, Jun 1990.

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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: November 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Jews | Religious groups
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names

Corporate names
Theresienstadt concentration camp

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Theresienstadt (Terezin) | Czech Republic | Eastern Europe