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Spanish Civil War: a memoir


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 686

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Spanish Civil War: a memoir

Date(s): 1937

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Nothing is known about the provenance of this apparently authentic account of imprisonment in Spain during the Spanish Civil war by an unidentified Austrian Jew. The events described took place in 1936 and the account was, according to the author, written in Vienna in 1937.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

A typescript autobiographical account of an unidentified Austrian Jew's experience of imprisonment during the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

1 item

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

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: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Jews | Religious groups
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Prisoners | Disadvantaged groups
Prisons | Penal sanctions | Administration of justice
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) | Civil war | Political movements
Penal institutions
Primary documents
Racial discrimination

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Spain | Western Europe | Europe