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- 1843-2004 (Creation)
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1 file
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The Bing family was a German Jewish family from Berlin some of whose members died in the Holocaust and others managed to escape to Great Britain.
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GB 1556 WL 867 1843-2004 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Bing family
The Bing family was a German Jewish family from Berlin some of whose members died in the Holocaust and others managed to escape to Great Britain.
Mrs G. I. Bing
The Bing family papers, 1843-2004, comprise four separate deposits; copy letters from Mathilde (Tilly) Bing in a detention hostel in Berlin prior to deportation to the East to von Pappritz, 1943 (867/1); copy papers regarding the fine incurred by Clara Bing for not including the name Sara, depicting her Jewish ethnicity, 1939 (867/2); copy correspondence and papers of Heinz Bing, 1843-1945 (867/3) and various transcript correspondence including a letter from Fritz Mecklenburg to Heinz Bing, 2004 (867/4).
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open
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Except for the transcript material (867/3/5-7) the material is in German.
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
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.
December 2007 Berlin Bing , Clara , fl 1939-1943 Bing , Mathilde , fl 1939-1943 Europe Genocide Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law International conflicts Jews Nazism Political doctrines Religious groups Third reich Totalitarianism War War crimes Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)
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Mrs G. I. Bing
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The Bing family papers, 1843-2004, comprise four separate deposits; copy letters from Mathilde (Tilly) Bing in a detention hostel in Berlin prior to deportation to the East to von Pappritz, 1943 (867/1); copy papers regarding the fine incurred by Clara Bing for not including the name Sara, depicting her Jewish ethnicity, 1939 (867/2); copy correspondence and papers of Heinz Bing, 1843-1945 (867/3) and various transcript correspondence including a letter from Fritz Mecklenburg to Heinz Bing, 2004 (867/4).
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open
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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Except for the transcript material (867/3/5-7) the material is in German.
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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
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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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- English