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Heilbrunner: account of life in Dachau


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1046

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Heilbrunner: account of life in Dachau

Date(s): 1933

Level of description: collection

Extent: 54 pages

Name of creator(s): Heilbrunner | fl 1933 | concentration camp inmate

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Heilbrunner's account of life in Dachau, 1933, is a typescript memoir of Jewish inmate, Heilbrunner, in 1933. Written in the form of a narrative in the first person; structured into four chapters, describes in some detail the conditions in the camp and the brutality of the camp guards, contains manuscript annotations and corrections.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

As described in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

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:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

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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: January 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
German history | European history | National history
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Heilbrunner | fl 1933 | concentration camp inmate

Corporate names
Dachau concentration camp

Places