IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 912
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Roth, Isabella (b 1896): personal papers
Date(s): 1902-1970s
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Roth | Isabella | b 1896 | Jewish refugee
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Isabella Roth was born in Vienna in 1896, the daughter of Josef Roth a Jewish manufacturer from Gross Wardein, Hungary. She worked as a correspondent for Holz-Handels-Aktien-Gesellschaft, Vienna, where she worked in the Rumanian department as German-Hungarian correspondent. From 1925 until 1938 she worked as typist for the Neue Wiener Tageblatt for Steyrermühl, the newspaper publisher. She came to England in 1939, where, according to her naturalisation certificate, she worked as a typist. Nothing further is known of her life or that of her family.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Isabella Roth, 1902-1970s, comprise her personal documents including a copy of her birth certificate, testimonials, and naturalisation certifcate; Isabella Roth's writings including her diary, 'philosophical thoughts' and poems and photographs presumably of Isabella Roth and family.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged in three sections: personal papers (912/1); writings (912/2); and photographs (912/3).
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