GB 1556 WL 1521 - Dresner family papers

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GB 1556 WL 1521 1916-1990 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Dresner family

The Dresner family were a Jewish family resident in Leipzig during the Nazi era, some of whose members perished in the Holocaust, others escaping to Great Britain.

Dresner family

This collection contains the papers of the Dresner family, a Jewish family from Leipzig, 1916-1990, including official documentation from Theresienstadt concentration camp; pre-war Nazi and post-war Czech bureaucratic papers including a letter from the Chief of Police, Leipzig, banishing Elias Dresner and family from the city on pain of imprisonment; a typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein giving information on the fate of family members, 24 Nov 1947 and family photographs.

Chronological

Open

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

German and Czech

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

A copy of the typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein, 24 Nov 1947, giving information on the fate of family members is also at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

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 Wars (events) Concentration camps Europe European history Genocide German history Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law Leipzig Migrants National history Nazism Political doctrines Refugees Theresienstadt concentration camp Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Dresner family

This collection contains the papers of the Dresner family, a Jewish family from Leipzig, 1916-1990, including official documentation from Theresienstadt concentration camp; pre-war Nazi and post-war Czech bureaucratic papers including a letter from the Chief of Police, Leipzig, banishing Elias Dresner and family from the city on pain of imprisonment; a typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein giving information on the fate of family members, 24 Nov 1947 and family photographs.

Chronological

Open

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

• Engels

• Latijn

German and Czech

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

A copy of the typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein, 24 Nov 1947, giving information on the fate of family members is also at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

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.

• Engels