Collection GB 1556 WL 570 - German Foreign Office: Correspondence on Jews in Slovakia

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Reference code

GB 1556 WL 570

Title

German Foreign Office: Correspondence on Jews in Slovakia

Date(s)

  • 1943-1945 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

c 42 frames

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Name of creator

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Unknown

Repository

Archival history

GB 1556 WL 570 1943-1945 collection c 42 frames German Foreign and Security offices, Berlin

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Jewish Central Information Office

Microfilm of correspondence and papers regarding the fate of Jews in Slovakia, 1943-1945, chiefly between the German Foreign and Security offices in Berlin and representatives of the regime in Pressburg (Bratislava), including letters from Karl Adolf Eichmann, SS-Obersturmbannführer. Correspondence chiefly dates from after the Slovak National Uprising, Aug-Oct 1944, which had included a relatively high percentage of Jews.

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Open

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

German

Microfilm. Some of the frames are barely legible.

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Mar 2008 Antisemitism Berlin Eastern Europe Eichmann , Karl Adolf , 1906-1962 , Nazi Europe Genocide Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law Jews Nazism Political doctrines Racial discrimination Religious groups Slovakia Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes Western Europe

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Jewish Central Information Office

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Scope and content

Microfilm of correspondence and papers regarding the fate of Jews in Slovakia, 1943-1945, chiefly between the German Foreign and Security offices in Berlin and representatives of the regime in Pressburg (Bratislava), including letters from Karl Adolf Eichmann, SS-Obersturmbannführer. Correspondence chiefly dates from after the Slovak National Uprising, Aug-Oct 1944, which had included a relatively high percentage of Jews.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Unknown

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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

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

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Wiener Library

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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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Language(s)

  • English

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    Sources

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