GB 1556 WL 693 - Brand family: correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

GB 1556 WL 693

Title

Brand family: correspondence

Date(s)

  • 1939-1947 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

1 file

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

The Brand family were a Jewish family from Vienna. Max Brand came to Great Britain in 1939. Nothing is known of the fate of family members.

Repository

Archival history

The material was deposited in response to an appeal made by the Wiener Library in the Jewish Chronicle, 1988, for personal papers documenting experiences of people during and after Kristallnacht.

GB 1556 WL 693 1939-1947 Collection level 1 file Brand , Max , fl 1939-1947 , former refugee

The Brand family were a Jewish family from Vienna. Max Brand came to Great Britain in 1939. Nothing is known of the fate of family members.

The material was deposited in response to an appeal made by the Wiener Library in the Jewish Chronicle, 1988, for personal papers documenting experiences of people during and after Kristallnacht.

Minnie Brand

The Brand family correspondence collection (693/1-29), 1939-1947, originates from Max Brand's family in Vienna, mostly from Olga, his sister, but also from his father and mother; the latter is usually written in Sütterlin script.It deals almost exclusively with details of family life. There is very little which sheds light on general conditions as they obtained for Jews in Vienna during this period.

Chronological

Open

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

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.

November 2007 Austria Brand , Max , fl 1939-1947 , former refugee Europe Jews Migrants Refugees Religious groups Vienna Western Europe

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Minnie Brand

Content and structure area

Scope and content

The Brand family correspondence collection (693/1-29), 1939-1947, originates from Max Brand's family in Vienna, mostly from Olga, his sister, but also from his father and mother; the latter is usually written in Sütterlin script.It deals almost exclusively with details of family life. There is very little which sheds light on general conditions as they obtained for Jews in Vienna during this period.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Chronological

Conditions of access and use area

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

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

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Description identifier

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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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