Jewish doctors during the Nazi era: various papers (microfilm)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1556 WL 508 |
Held at | : Wiener Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ › |
Full title | : Jewish doctors during the Nazi era: various papers (microfilm) |
Date(s) | : 1933-1952 |
Level of description | : collection |
Extent | : 245 frames |
Name of creator(s) | : Gordon | Walter | fl 1930-1945 | doctor
Nelki | Max | fl 1939-1945 | concentration camp survivor |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Walter Gordon was a Jewish doctor from Hildesheim, Lower Saxony.Max Nelki was a Jewish resident of Hamburg during the 1930s, who was sentenced to 2 years for race defilement and spent some time in a concentration camp; found refuge in Shanghai; and returned to Hamburg after the war.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Walter Gordon and Max Nelki, 1933-1952 comprising personal and official correspondence and papers of Walter Gordon and other material relating to his status as a Jewish doctor, including a questionnaire with a note relating to ethnicity, [1936]; correspondence with former commanding officers relating to his military service in World War One; instructions from the Reichsärztekammer regarding his professional remit and printed list of non-aryan and 'staatsfeindlich' doctors and dentists, published by the Krankenkasse der deutschen Angestellten, arranged alphabetically by city/ region, 1934. Papers of Max Nelki comprising typescript personal account of his experiences, 1952.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
German
System of arrangement:
Chronological by group
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
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Max Nelki family
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
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:
Oct 2007
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