Collection GB 1556 WL 895 - Segal, Lilli: correspondence and papers (1987-1995)

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GB 1556 WL 895 1987-1995 collection 1 folder Segal , Lilli , b 1913 , doctor

Lilli Segal, a German Jew, was born in Berlin in 1913. Segal fled to France after the Nazi seizure of power, where she engaged in illegal courier work to Germany and was finally arrested and deported to Auschwitz.

She managed to escape and fled to Switzerland. In the 1980s and 1990s she was involved in research into the history of Nazi medicine.

Publications: Die Hohenpriester der Vernichtung: Anthropologen, mediziner und Psychiater als Wegbereiter von Selektion und Mord im Dritten (Reich, Dietz Berlin, 1991) and Vom Widerspruch zum Widerstand: Errinerungen einer Tochter aus gutem Hause.

Deposited by two individuals at various intervals including Lilli Segal.

Papers of Lilli Segal, 1987-1995, comprise correspondence including letters to Professor Müller Hill regarding Nazi medical experiments (895/1-4); letter regarding numbers of Holocaust victims from Hans Mommsen (895/28); correspondence with the Nationale Mahn und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald regarding the memorialisation of the Holocaust (895/13-16) and copies of relevant newspaper cuttings, book extracts and photographs.

Correspondence has been arranged into date order and numbered. The other material consisting mostly of copy newspaper articles is arranged separately.

Open

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

German

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

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 Concentration camps Genocide Holocaust Humanitarian law Medical ethics Medical profession Medical sciences Nazism Political doctrines Segal , Lilli , b 1913 , doctor Totalitarianism War crimes

Deposited by two individuals at various intervals including Lilli Segal.

Papers of Lilli Segal, 1987-1995, comprise correspondence including letters to Professor Müller Hill regarding Nazi medical experiments (895/1-4); letter regarding numbers of Holocaust victims from Hans Mommsen (895/28); correspondence with the Nationale Mahn und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald regarding the memorialisation of the Holocaust (895/13-16) and copies of relevant newspaper cuttings, book extracts and photographs.

Correspondence has been arranged into date order and numbered. The other material consisting mostly of copy newspaper articles is arranged separately.

Open

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

• anglais

• latin

German

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

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.

• anglais