Diary of Walter Tausk
Extent and Medium
648 digital images, JPEG
1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Walter Tausk
Archival History
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Wroclaw University, Library, Department of Manuscripts, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2007.
Scope and Content
Contains four volumes of the diary of Walter Tausk. Walter Tausk describes own experiences in Nazi Germany related to antisemitism and polices against Jews. The diary contains also newspaper clippings, photographs of leading Nazis, letters to Walter Tausk, fascists leaflets, business cards of companies Tausk worked for and meal vouchers for Jews.
System of Arrangement
Organized in four volumes: v.19, v.20, v.23, v 25 of the seven still existing volumes.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
People
- Tausk, Walter, 1890-1942?
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Wroclaw.
- Atrocities.
- Jews--Poland--Wrocław--History.
- Wrocław (Poland)--History.
Genre
- Diaries.
- Leaflets.
- Photographs.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Memoirs.
- Document