GB 1556 WL 1553 - Anti-Nazi jokes

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Reference code

GB 1556 WL 1553

Title

Anti-Nazi jokes

Date(s)

  • c 1939 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

1 file

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

This notebook had been the property of Kitty Fehr, sister of the depositor, who collected it and smuggled it to Great Britain as a 15 year old girl in 1939. She added a few more during the war in England.

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Archival history

GB 1556 WL 1553 c 1939 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Fehr , Kitty , fl 1939

This notebook had been the property of Kitty Fehr, sister of the depositor, who collected it and smuggled it to Great Britain as a 15 year old girl in 1939. She added a few more during the war in England.

Deposited by the family

Notebook containing hand-written, mostly anti-Nazi jokes in Suetterlin script, c1939, and a modern transcript of the same.

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Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

German/Suetterlin script

Additional finding aids can be located within the Wiener Library reading room.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

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.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited by the family

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Scope and content

Notebook containing hand-written, mostly anti-Nazi jokes in Suetterlin script, c1939, and a modern transcript of the same.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

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N/A

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

German/Suetterlin script

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Additional finding aids can be located within the Wiener Library reading room.

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Wiener Library

Rules and/or conventions used

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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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