IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1000
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Mitchell, Ernest: family documents
Date(s): 1938-2001
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Ernest Mitchell, the son of a synagogue cantor from Breslau, Silesia, was rescued by the Red Army and came to England via a Displaced Persons Camp in 1948. His father, Ernst Schampanier is the subject of the document regarding the appointment of a cantor at Breslau synagogue. Edith Rosenthal is his daughter, who died in England in 1972. Suzie Rosenthal, the subject for the application of a commemorative bench for victims of the 'Patria' disaster, is her daughter.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Mitchell family, 1938-2001, comprise papers including a good conduct certificate for Edith Rosenthal (1000-/1); war-time Red Cross telegrams from Edith Rosenthal, in England, to her father in Berlin (1000/2-1000/3) and a letter providing some biographical information about Ernest Mitchell's family.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in chronological order.
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