A.P. Peres: correspondence with Dr E. Benes and other papers

Identifier
WL1163
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70278
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Jan 1948
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Deutsche Demokratische Freiheitspartei [1919-]

Biographical History

Little is known about Alfred Pavel Peres save for the fact that he was an international lawyer and that he helped Benes get visas for political liberals. He was a member of the Deutsche Demokratische Freiheitspartei.

Acquisition

Donated August 1994

Donor: Kate Peres

Scope and Content

These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years. The papers include correspondence between Alfred Pavel Peres and the president of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes.

System of Arrangement

The material has been arranged into the following order: minutes of meetings with Peres and Benes and others
(-/1); correspondence to named individuals and general- much of it in Czech (-/2); news reports re the post war situation in Czechoslovakia (-/3); press cuttings (-/4); miscellaneous material.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

People

  • Beneš, Edvard
  • Peres, Alfred Pavel
  • Spurny, Grisa
  • Ripka, Hubert
  • Masaryk, Jan
  • Nosek, Vaclav

Subjects

  • Governments in exile
  • Documents

Places

  • Sudetenland [1938-1945]
  • Czechoslovakia [1918-1992]
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