Correspondence with Bergman, George Francis Jack
Extent and Medium
52 letters
Biographical History
Dr George Francis Jack Bergman (born Georg Franz Bergmann; 1900-1979) was a Jewish-German solicitor. The World War I veteran and subsequent Freikorps member had emigrated to France in 1933. With the beginning of the Second World War he served in the Foreign Legion and was incarcerated in several French internment camps in Algeria by the Vichy Regime at some point. Liberated by the Allies, he joined the British Army in 1943. Later Bergman immigrated to Australia, where he conducted research on Jewish history.
See Röder, W. and H. Strauss (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, vol. 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, öffentliches Leben, Munich, Saur, 1980, p. 55.
Scope and Content
Correspondence regarding the consignment and discussion of Bergman’s research work and source material. This concerns particularly a typescript on Jewish-German mountaineers, and large materials (including own diaries) on the fate of Jewish refugees in French internment camps in North Africa. Furthermore, the situation of Jews in Australia as well as the malfunctioning practice of restitution claims in France are briefly addressed
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People
- Bergman, George F. J.
Subjects
- Hadjerat M'Guil (internment camp)
- Restitution
- Refugees
- Jewish history
Places
- North Africa
- France
- Australia
- Algeria