IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1016
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Neumann family: correspondence (1941-1948)
Date(s): 1941-1948
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Neumann | Lutz | fl 1941-1948
Neumann | Lisel | fl 1941-1948
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Little is known about the Neumann family; this German Jewish family was forced into exile in the late 1930s.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Neumann family, 1941-1948, comprise correspondence between Lisel Neumann and friends including mention of Lutz's internment and eventual release, 1941; unidentified post-war correspondence, 1947-1948; eyewitness account of former Theresienstadt inmate, 1946 and a letter from Elsie Rinteln, a non-Jewish woman married to a Jew describing how they tried to emigrate and how her husband was arrested several times and transported to camp Vernet, 1948.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
System of arrangement:
Arranged as in Scope and Content.
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.
Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008