Correspondence with Deak, Gertrud

Identifier

3000/9/1/310

Language of Description

English

Level of Description

File

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

10 letters

Biographical History

Gertrud Deak was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor. She had been deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944/45. She lived in London after the Second World War, and worked partly for The Wiener Library.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding an eyewitness account by Deak for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project as well as her subsequent employment at The Wiener Library. The latter includes matters regarding her payment, leave, and also emotional problems related to her former internment in concentration camps.

Conditions Governing Access

closed

Related Units of Description

https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/71059
For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the .

People

Deak, Gertrud

Corporate Bodies

The Wiener Library

Subjects

Trauma
Persecution, after-effects
Personal narratives
Survivors

Places

Great Britain

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