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- 1942 (Creation)
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1 file
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Sophie Cahn was a German Jewish refugee whose father and mother, died at Minsk, Belarus and Theresienstadt, respectively, having failed to escape the Nazis.
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GB 1556 WL 1459 1942 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Cahn , Sophie , fl 1940-1942
Sophie Cahn was a German Jewish refugee whose father and mother, died at Minsk, Belarus and Theresienstadt, respectively, having failed to escape the Nazis.
Sophie Cahn
Red Cross letters, 1942, between Sophie Cahn in Great Britain and her family in Rheydt, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, prior to their deportation.
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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.
March 2008 Cahn , Sophie , fl 1940-1942 Europe Genocide Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law Jews Migrants Nazism North Rhine-Westphalia Political doctrines Refugees Religious groups Third Reich Totalitarianism UK War crimes Western Europe London England
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Sophie Cahn
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Red Cross letters, 1942, between Sophie Cahn in Great Britain and her family in Rheydt, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, prior to their deportation.
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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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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