Metadata: Brand family: correspondence
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 693
- Title:
- Brand family: correspondence
- Title (official language):
- Brand family: correspondence
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brand, Max, fl 1939-1947, former refugee
- Date(s):
- 1939/1947
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- The Brand family correspondence collection (693/1-29), 1939-1947, originates from Max Brand's family in Vienna, mostly from Olga, his sister, but also from his father and mother; the latter is usually written in Sütterlin script.It deals almost exclusively with details of family life. There is very little which sheds light on general conditions as they obtained for Jews in Vienna during this period.
- Archival history:
- The material was deposited in response to an appeal made by the Wiener Library in the _Jewish Chronicle_, 1988, for personal papers documenting experiences of people during and after Kristallnacht.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Brand family were a Jewish family from Vienna. Max Brand came to Great Britain in 1939. Nothing is known of the fate of family members.
- Access points: locations:
- Vienna
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brand
- Brand, Max
- Brand, Olga
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70922
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library