Metadata: Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers of Rudi Kennedy
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 311/32
- Title:
- Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers of Rudi Kennedy
- Title (official language):
- Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers of Rudi Kennedy
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kennedy, Rudi
- Date(s):
- 1925/2005
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 6 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Moving images
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Most papers relate to Rudi Kennedy’s fight for compensation for Jewish slave labourers in the Second World War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Rudi Kennedy (1927-2008) was born Rudi Karmeinsky near Breslau (now Wrocław), Poland. His family was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. His father worked as forced labour at the IG Farben rubber factory whilst Rudi worked building roads. He was later sent to Bergen-Belsen. Rudi Kennedy worked as a rocket scientist in Great Britain in the post-war period. He was the founder of the Association of Claims for Jewish Slave Labour Compensation.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kennedy, Rudi
- Subject terms:
- Forced labour (of Jews)
- Restitution and compensation
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
