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Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Juedischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes: Reports


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1500

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Juedischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes: Reports

Date(s): 1962-1998

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 2 files

Name of creator(s): Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Juedischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes x Documentation Centre for the League of Jews Persecuted by the Nazis

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Juedischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes (Documentation Centre for the League of Jews Persecuted by the Nazis) was founded in October 1961 by Simon Wiesenthal with a staff initially of 2 people. Its aims were to identify and evaluate the vast and growing corpus of material on the subject of the Holocaust; to locate witnesses for war crimes trials; to support the judiciary and police authorities through contact with other documentation centres throughout the world in the prosecution of war criminals; and to observe and collect material on neo-Nazi organisations.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Reports on the activities of the Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Juedischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes (Documentation Centre for the League of Jews Persecuted by the Nazis), 1962-1998.

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:

Hella Pick

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: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Wiesenthal | Simon | 1908-2005 | war crimes campaigner

Corporate names
Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Juedischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes x Documentation Centre for the League of Jews Persecuted by the Nazis

Places