Metadata: Beck, Hedwig: restitution claim
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:
- 823
- Title:
- Beck, Hedwig: restitution claim
- Title (official language):
- Beck, Hedwig: restitution claim
- Date(s):
- 1936/1959
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- Papers, 1936-1959, relating to an application made by two Czech sisters, Hedwig and Pauline Beck, for compensation for possessions stolen by the Nazis from their sister, Sabina Bauml (née Beck), including translations of residency permits; inventories of possessions confiscated by the Nazis; affidavits from friends and acquaintances in support of the application for compensation and post war correspondence between the French authorities and the Beck sisters relating to compensation.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Hedwig, Pauline and Sabina Beck were Czech sisters. Hedwig and Pauline emigrated to France during World War Two. Sabina Bauml (née Beck) was transported to Auschwitz with her son in January 1944.
- Access points: locations:
- Czechoslovakia
- France
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bauml, Sabina
- Beck, Hedwig
- Beck, Pauline
- Subject terms:
- Restitution and compensation
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70735
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Wiener Library
