Grossbard family: Correspondence
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1556 WL 1149 |
Held at | : Wiener Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ › |
Full title | : Grossbard family: Correspondence |
Date(s) | : 1922-1962 |
Level of description | : collection |
Extent | : 8 files |
Name of creator(s) | : Grossbard | Siegfried | fl 1922-1963 |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Siegfried Grossbard was a Jewish refugee from Vienna who eventually became resident in Great Britain, after having spent time as an inmate of Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters from friends and family to Siegfried Grossbard, 1922-1962, on topics including the Richborough Internment Camp and the German Jewish Aid Committee; reference to Lingfield Internment camp and of experiences as an internee in Australia; brother-in-law, Erwin's account of survival of the occupation in France; conditions in Germany during the immediate postwar era, from ex-internee, Roger Freeman; claims for restitution relating to the Aryanisation of the Grossbard family business; and letters from Otto Morawetz to Grossbard regarding family and friends and life in the USA.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
German and English
System of arrangement:
The material has been arranged chronologically into two groups: correspondence and papers from friends, family and others,1149/1/1-291; correspondence from Otto Morawetz, 1149/2/1-166.
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:
Michael Gordon
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:
January 2008
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