Metadata : Exile Archive
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Postal address:
- Senate House Library,University of London,Malet Street London Greater London United Kingdom WC1E 7HU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8500
- Web address:
- https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Postal address:
- Senate House Library,University of London,Malet Street London Greater London United Kingdom WC1E 7HU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8500
- Web address:
- https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library
- Reference number:
- EXS
- Title:
- Exile Archive
- Title (official language):
- Exile Archive
- Creator/accumulator:
- Adler, Hans Günther, 1910-1988, author of Holocaust literature
- Date(s):
- 1929/1998
- Language:
- English
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 16 boxes and 1 poster
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains personal papers, correspondence, official documents and literary and autobiographical scripts created by or relating to German-speaking exiles and exile-related organisations mainly in the UK. Some of the material dates from the period before and during the Second World War, such as a biography of Hitler by Rudolf Olden in the 1930s, and records of the activities of prisoners in internment camps on the Isle of Man in the early 1940s. A significant proportion of the collection is material created in the post-war period on the subject of exile, such as autobiographical accounts of exile by individual refugees, and the research papers of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. There are also records (including some copies of publications) of literary and other scripts focusing on the experience of exile and the events leading to it, written by exile poets, scholars and journalists and others before and after they emigrated.
- Archival history:
- This fonds was created by the Institute of Germanic Studies in the 1990s as a collection of material from a variety of sources related to the theme of exile. The material does not share any provenance above file- and sub-series-level groupings.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born in Prague, 1910; PhD, Charles University, 1935; sent to do forced labour 1941-1942; Theresienstadt concentration camp, 1942-1944; Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944-1945; emigrated to London, 1947; wrote and published novels, poetry and a number of important works on the Holocaust; died 1988. Publications: Theresienstadt (1955) Der verwaltete Mensch (1974) Die Freiheit des Menschen (1976) Eine Reise (1962, second edition 1999) Panorama (1968).The Exile Archive was established at the Institute in the academic year 1996-97. The Institute already holds the papers of several individuals such as Rudolf Majut, Herbert Thoma and Berthold Auerbach, who were exiled from Germany and Austria during the 1930s as a result of persecution under the National Socialist regime. However, since the setting up of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, the Institute has attracted archival donations from several emigrés, and the Collection now has material relating to both individuals and organisations.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- Literature
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Access, restrictions:
- Open. At least 48 hours notice is required for research visits.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110019281Box lists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Jennifer Hogarth, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Revised by Clare George May 2020.
- Reference number:
- EXS
- Title:
- Exile Archive
- Title (official language):
- Exile Archive
- Creator/accumulator:
- Adler, Hans Günther, 1910-1988, author of Holocaust literature
- Date(s):
- 1929/1998
- Language:
- English
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 16 boxes and 1 poster
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains personal papers, correspondence, official documents and literary and autobiographical scripts created by or relating to German-speaking exiles and exile-related organisations mainly in the UK. Some of the material dates from the period before and during the Second World War, such as a biography of Hitler by Rudolf Olden in the 1930s, and records of the activities of prisoners in internment camps on the Isle of Man in the early 1940s. A significant proportion of the collection is material created in the post-war period on the subject of exile, such as autobiographical accounts of exile by individual refugees, and the research papers of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. There are also records (including some copies of publications) of literary and other scripts focusing on the experience of exile and the events leading to it, written by exile poets, scholars and journalists and others before and after they emigrated.
- Archival history:
- This fonds was created by the Institute of Germanic Studies in the 1990s as a collection of material from a variety of sources related to the theme of exile. The material does not share any provenance above file- and sub-series-level groupings.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born in Prague, 1910; PhD, Charles University, 1935; sent to do forced labour 1941-1942; Theresienstadt concentration camp, 1942-1944; Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944-1945; emigrated to London, 1947; wrote and published novels, poetry and a number of important works on the Holocaust; died 1988. Publications: Theresienstadt (1955) Der verwaltete Mensch (1974) Die Freiheit des Menschen (1976) Eine Reise (1962, second edition 1999) Panorama (1968).The Exile Archive was established at the Institute in the academic year 1996-97. The Institute already holds the papers of several individuals such as Rudolf Majut, Herbert Thoma and Berthold Auerbach, who were exiled from Germany and Austria during the 1930s as a result of persecution under the National Socialist regime. However, since the setting up of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, the Institute has attracted archival donations from several emigrés, and the Collection now has material relating to both individuals and organisations.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- Literature
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Access, restrictions:
- Open. At least 48 hours notice is required for research visits.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110019281Box lists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Jennifer Hogarth, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Revised by Clare George May 2020.
