Collection GB 1556 WL 703 - Menzner, Emmerich, SS Oberreiter: Letter from Poland (1942)

Identity area

Reference code

GB 1556 WL 703

Title

Menzner, Emmerich, SS Oberreiter: Letter from Poland (1942)

Date(s)

  • 1942 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

1 file

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Little is known about the author save for that which is contained in the letter itself, namely that Emmerich Menzner was a rank and file member of an SS cavalry regiment in an unidentified part of Poland in 1942, and that he hailed from Litzmannstadt (Lodz).

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Archival history

GB 1556 WL 703 1942 collection 1 file Menzner , Emmerich , fl 1939-1942 , SS cavalryman

Little is known about the author save for that which is contained in the letter itself, namely that Emmerich Menzner was a rank and file member of an SS cavalry regiment in an unidentified part of Poland in 1942, and that he hailed from Litzmannstadt (Lodz).

Jewish Central Information Office

Letter from SS Oberreiter Emmerich Menzner to his friends back home, describing life in the regiment and in particular making reference to an apparent war crime which his unit carried out, 1942.

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

German- Sütterlin script

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.

November 2007 Wars (events) Eastern Europe Humanitarian law Lodz Menzner , Emmerich , fl 1939-1942 , SS cavalryman Nazism Occupied territories Poland Political doctrines SS x Schutzstaffel Totalitarianism War crimes World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

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Jewish Central Information Office

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Letter from SS Oberreiter Emmerich Menzner to his friends back home, describing life in the regiment and in particular making reference to an apparent war crime which his unit carried out, 1942.

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Accruals

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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- Sütterlin script

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Finding aids

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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Language(s)

  • English

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