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Hidden Jews of Berlin: Transcript interviews


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1602

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Hidden Jews of Berlin: Transcript interviews

Date(s): 1999

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Kessler Productions in conjunction with Darlow Smithson Productions for the Secret History series on Channel 4

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted for the TV programme 'The Hidden Jews of Berlin'. The programme was made by Kessler Productions in conjunction with Darlow Smithson Productions for the Secret History series on Channel 4. It was transmitted on 17 August 1999. The producer was Peter Kessler, the director was Clara Glynn, and the executive producer was John Smithson.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of 'The Hidden Jews of Berlin', 1999, comprise interview transcripts with German Jews. The televison programme included detailed accounts of life in hiding in Berlin during World War Two; experience of capture, interrogation by Jewish collaborators and Gestapo and betrayal by Jews; Mischlinge; Fabrikation; Siemens; Rosenstrasse protest; Grosse Hamburger Strasse; life in Berlin before the war.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and German

System of arrangement:

Alphabetical by interviewee.

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:

Deposited by Peter Kessler.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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: April 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
German history | European history | National history
Jews | Religious groups
Television programmes | Television | Broadcasting
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
Darlow Smithson Productions
Gestapo x Geheimes Staatspolizei
Kessler Productions

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe