Metadata : Fernbach family documents
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/
- 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:
- 1045
- Title:
- Fernbach family documents
- Title (official language):
- Fernbach family documents
- Date(s):
- 1869/1927
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Fernbach family, [1869-1927], comprise a manuscript entitled _Chronicle of the Fernbach family_, undated, and copies of Fernbach family documents including birth, marriage and death certificates, copies of photographs and obituaries.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Fernbachs were a Jewish family. Wolfgang Fernbach, trained in medicine and was a fervent Zionist. He became a financial journalist for an English newspaper and was a radical socialist during the First World War. He was a loyal friend of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and an extremely dedicated political activist. He was murdered in January 1919 as one of the seven 'Spartacists', shot in the 'Vorwärts' building in Berlin.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fernbach
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Fernbach
- Subject terms:
- Genealogy
- Personal records
- Vital records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70954
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.
- Wiener Library
- Reference number:
- 1045
- Title:
- Fernbach family documents
- Title (official language):
- Fernbach family documents
- Date(s):
- 1869/1927
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Fernbach family, [1869-1927], comprise a manuscript entitled _Chronicle of the Fernbach family_, undated, and copies of Fernbach family documents including birth, marriage and death certificates, copies of photographs and obituaries.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Fernbachs were a Jewish family. Wolfgang Fernbach, trained in medicine and was a fervent Zionist. He became a financial journalist for an English newspaper and was a radical socialist during the First World War. He was a loyal friend of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and an extremely dedicated political activist. He was murdered in January 1919 as one of the seven 'Spartacists', shot in the 'Vorwärts' building in Berlin.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fernbach
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Fernbach
- Subject terms:
- Genealogy
- Personal records
- Vital records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70954
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.
- Wiener Library
