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Polish Jewry during the Nazi era: extracted accounts


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 556

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Polish Jewry during the Nazi era: extracted accounts

Date(s): [1940s]

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: c 97 frames

Name of creator(s): Jewish Central Information Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The collection was extracted from Polish archives in London. The precise details of the provenance precede each account (or group of accounts).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Reports on the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era, [1940-1949]. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French Jew's experience of Auschwitz.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mostly Polish, some French and English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Microfilm

Finding aids:

Detailed description 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: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Mar 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Human rights violations

Personal names

Corporate names
Auschwitz concentration camp

Places
Poland | Eastern Europe