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Wilmersdörfer, Gertrud (b 1915)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1255

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Wilmersdörfer, Gertrud (b 1915)

Date(s): 1934-1991

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Wilmersdörfer | Gertrud | b 1934 | teacher

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gertrud Wilmersdörfe born 1915 Oberpfalz, Bavaria, an anti-Nazi and Jewess was convicted in 1934 of anti-Nazi activities in Frankfurt am Main along with 3 other co-defendants at a trial in Kassel and sentenced to 4 months imprisonment.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy papers regarding the trial of Gertrud Wilmersdörfer and others for intent to commit a treacherous act, namely the publication and distribution of communist material, including indictment, verdict and newspaper report relating to the trial; copy article and correspondence containing biographical material on Alexandre Morgune, a former French Resistance colleague of Gertrud Wilmersdörfer, who received the French honour Citation à l'Ordre de la Division; copy article regarding Ravensbrück concentration camp by Nedjalka Tschernaeva.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German, English and French

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gertrud Wilmersdörfer

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Fascism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Jews | Religious groups
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Morgune | Alexandre | fl 1940 | French Resistance fighter
Wilmersdörfer | Gertrud | b 1934 | teacher

Corporate names
Ravensbrück concentration camp

Places