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Grant, Lisa: Family documents


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1321

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Grant, Lisa: Family documents

Date(s): 1860s-1930s

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Grant | Lisa | fl 1997-2000

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The depositor was the grand-daughter of Feodor Schweitzer, the subject of some of the documents. The family came to Great Britain, 1938-1939. The relationship of the individuals referred to in the earlier documentation to the depositor is unknown. It appears that one of the depositor's ancestors was a court photographer in Berlin in the 1860s.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This miscellaneous collection of family papers documents the activities of a German Jewish family, [1830-1940]. It includes material on the aryanisation of the family business and the receipt of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz für Kriegshilfe, for service during World War One.

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.

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:

Lisa Grant

ALLIED MATERIALS

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
German history | European history | National history
Jews | Religious groups
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Family

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe