IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 936
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Szell, Franz (fl 1936-1937): correspondence regarding Alfred Rosenberg
Date(s): 1936-1937
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Szell | Franz | fl 1936-1937 | journalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Franz Szell, an exiled Hungarian journalist apparently resident in Tilsit, Lithuania spent more than a year in the archives in Latvia and Estonia researching Alfred Rosenberg's family history with a view to publishing the open letter, 936/1.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Franz Szell, 1936-1937, comprise an open letter to Alfred Rosenberg, editor of the Völkische Beobachter, 1936; copies of letters to Goering, Göbbels, von Neurath, amongst others regarding Alfred Rosenberg's family history, 1936, and a letter to the Justice Minister, Trygre Lie, Oslo, 1937.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, French and German
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
Existence and location of originals:
Another version of the open letter is held at the Berlin Document Centre.
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