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- 1939-1956 (Creation)
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The Wiener Library began collecting eyewitness accounts of people who survived the Holocaust in 1957 as part of a project funded by the Claims Conference. The collection included contemporary documentation from the period. This set comprises accounts that were never included into the main series because they were incomplete.
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GB 1556 WL 1267 1939-1956 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Wiener Library
The Wiener Library began collecting eyewitness accounts of people who survived the Holocaust in 1957 as part of a project funded by the Claims Conference. The collection included contemporary documentation from the period. This set comprises accounts that were never included into the main series because they were incomplete.
Wiener Library
Various eyewitness accounts of the Nazi era and the Holocaust include persecution of a Jewish woman in Berlin during the war; account of the fate of the lawyer, Hans Litten; account of the activities of war criminals in Auschwitz and situation for the Jews in Poland.
Arranged in original order.
Open
Copies can be made for personal use but application must be made for publication.
German and French
Description exists at the Wiener Library website 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.
February 2008 Wars (events) Auschwitz concentration camp Berlin Eastern Europe Europe Genocide Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law International conflicts Jews Litten , Hans Achim , 1903-1938 , lawyer Nazism Poland Political doctrines Religious groups Totalitarianism War War crimes Western Europe Wiener Library World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)
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Wiener Library
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Various eyewitness accounts of the Nazi era and the Holocaust include persecution of a Jewish woman in Berlin during the war; account of the fate of the lawyer, Hans Litten; account of the activities of war criminals in Auschwitz and situation for the Jews in Poland.
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Arranged in original order.
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Open
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Copies can be made for personal use but application must be made for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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German and French
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Description exists at the Wiener Library website 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