Metadata: Johnson, Peter: Records of The Hyphen Social Club and other papers
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 Square London Greater London United Kingdom WC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 1159
- Title:
- Johnson, Peter: Records of The Hyphen Social Club and other papers
- Title (official language):
- Johnson, Peter: Records of The Hyphen Social Club and other papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Johnson, Peter
- Date(s):
- 1940/1987
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 9 files
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Peter Johnson, 1940-1987, comprising records of 'The Hyphen' social club including constitution, management committee minutes and agendas, accounts; lecture texts; newsletters; programmes of events; play scripts and correspondence and papers relating to Hildesheim, Lower Saxony including typescript list of Jews in the area, 1945; de-nazification questionnaire; list of former Nazis and papers regarding the use of German airmen in Britain.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Wolfgang Josephs (later Peter Johnson), a German Jew from Berlin, came to Great Britain in July 1933. He began work in the fur trade until he was interned as an enemy alien at the outbreak of war and later transported on the 'Dunera' to Hay Internment Camp, Australia. His parents having divorced in 1934, his father went to Amsterdam in 1937, from where he was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. His mother came to Great Britain in 1939 and went into service. On Johnson's return to Great Britain in 1941 he enlisted in the Pioneers Corps, later changing his name to Peter Johnson. He was a military interpreter for the British occupying forces in Germany at Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, from May 1945 to October 1946 where he was involved with the de-nazification process. Whilst there he also took an interest in the returnees from concentration camps, arranging correspondence between them and their families all over the world.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Johnson, Peter
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70274
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library