GB 1556 WL 1319 - Goldschmied family papers

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GB 1556 WL 1319

Title

Goldschmied family papers

Date(s)

  • 1938-1971 (Creation)

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1 file

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Biographical history

The papers in this collection document the fate of a Jewish mixed race family in Vienna during the Nazi era. The depositor's father, Alwin Goldschmied, was arrested in April 1938 by the Gestapo and eventually perished in Auschwitz having reached there via Drancy. The daughter, the depositor, Ellinor, came to England in 1939 with the assistance of the Quakers. Maria Goldschmied, the depositor's mother, seems to have spent the majority of the war in a small town called Stiefern with relatives some 90 km from Vienna. In August 1946 she came to England.

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GB 1556 WL 1319 1938-1971 Collection level 1 file Adler , Ellinor , b 1925 , née Goldschmied
Goldschmied , Maria , fl 1938-1971
Goldschmied , Alwin , fl 1938-1971

The papers in this collection document the fate of a Jewish mixed race family in Vienna during the Nazi era. The depositor's father, Alwin Goldschmied, was arrested in April 1938 by the Gestapo and eventually perished in Auschwitz having reached there via Drancy. The daughter, the depositor, Ellinor, came to England in 1939 with the assistance of the Quakers. Maria Goldschmied, the depositor's mother, seems to have spent the majority of the war in a small town called Stiefern with relatives some 90 km from Vienna. In August 1946 she came to England.

Deposited by Ellinor Adler.

Goldschmied family papers, 1938-1971, document the fate of a Jewish mixed race family in Vienna during the Nazi era and notably include passport ID cards and correspondence, personal accounts by Maria Goldschmied and photographs.

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Open

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

German and English

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.

February 2008 Wars (events) Adler , Ellinor , b 1925 , née Goldschmied Antisemitism Austria Communication process Communication skills Europe Goldschmied , Alwin , fl 1938-1971 Goldschmied , Maria , fl 1938-1971 Jews Letter writing Literary forms and genres Literature Nazism Nonfiction Personal narratives Photographs Political doctrines Prose Racial discrimination Religious groups Totalitarianism Vienna Visual materials Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Writing

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Deposited by Ellinor Adler.

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Goldschmied family papers, 1938-1971, document the fate of a Jewish mixed race family in Vienna during the Nazi era and notably include passport ID cards and correspondence, personal accounts by Maria Goldschmied and photographs.

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Chronological

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Open

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

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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German and English

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Description exists to this archive 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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  • English

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