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Dresner family papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1521

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Dresner family papers

Date(s): 1916-1990

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Dresner family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Dresner family were a Jewish family resident in Leipzig during the Nazi era, some of whose members perished in the Holocaust, others escaping to Great Britain.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection contains the papers of the Dresner family, a Jewish family from Leipzig, 1916-1990, including official documentation from Theresienstadt concentration camp; pre-war Nazi and post-war Czech bureaucratic papers including a letter from the Chief of Police, Leipzig, banishing Elias Dresner and family from the city on pain of imprisonment; a typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein giving information on the fate of family members, 24 Nov 1947 and family photographs.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German and Czech

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:

Dresner family

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

A copy of the typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein, 24 Nov 1947, giving information on the fate of family members is also at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

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
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
German history | European history | National history
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Refugees | Migrants
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
Theresienstadt concentration camp

Places
Leipzig | Germany | Western Europe | Europe