Concentration camp correspondence from various prisoners
Extent and Medium
1 folder
Creator(s)
- Lewis - David
Archival History
Acquired at Mullock's Auction House by depositor in June 2012
Acquisition
Donated by David Lewis
Scope and Content
This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at Ravensbruck concentration camp (1944).
Also included is a letter addressed to Moses Birnbaum in Berlin regarding his request for postponement of his family's deportation (1943); work book for foreign nationals ('Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer') of Kasimir Radzullys from Lithuania; and Magda Ebenholz's company identification card ('Werkausweis') who was working as office clerk for Franz Glinicke Sohn & Co GmbH at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp.
System of Arrangement
Chronological
Conditions Governing Access
See Wiener Library access conditions at: http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/usinglibrary/usingthelibrary.aspx
People
- Nowakowska - Konstanya
- Birnbaum - Moses
- Radzullys - Kasimir - b 1900
- Steckowski - Bernhard - b 1891
- Gans - Emil
- Deja - Boleslaus
- Ebenholz - Magda - b 1925
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews
- Nazism
- Migrant workers
- Foreigners
- Jewish
- Holocaust
- Concentration camps
- Persecution
Places
- Ravensbruck - Brandenburg - Germany
- Dachau - Bavaria - Germany
- Ettersberg - Thuringia - Germany
- Oranienburg - Brandenburg - Germany
- Lodz - Poland
- Fürstenwalde - Brandenburg - Germany
- Berlin - Germany