Metadata : Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): 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 SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 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 SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 1366
- Title:
- Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): Family documents
- Title (official language):
- Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): Family documents
- Creator/accumulator:
- Finkler, Walter, 1902-1960
- Date(s):
- 1908/1969
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- Papers of an Austrian Jewish family, Walter and Hansi Finkler and their daughter, Evelyn, who escaped the Nazis and come to England in 1939. Including personal papers of Walter and Hansi Finkler and Josefine Lustig, Hansi's sister, 1908-1969; official correspondence, 1938-1946; diaries, 1921-1935; correspondence, 1920s-1943 and ephemera and photographs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Walter Finkler was born in 1902 in Vienna where he studied at both a music academy and at a medical institute. Although he terminated his medical training early he had already written a number of scientific papers on a variety of subjects ranging from a study of monkey glands to the sexual behaviour of flies.He arrived in England at the end of March, 1939, where he spent approximately the first year in the Kitchener Camp for refugees. Later he was interned on the Isle of Man. He was actively involved in the Kitchener Camp orchestra. In 1946 he trained as a food scientist in Manchester where the family lived until 1954 after which the family moved south. Walter died in 1960.Hansi Finkler was born in 1906 and married Walter in 1927. She arrived in England in early March 1939 where she had several jobs as maid or cook in various parts of the country. Evelyn, born in 1930, had come to England in 1938 where she stayed at the 'Haven' hostel in Camden Town, a home for Jewish refugee children from Europe sponsored by the Lyons family. She was reunited with her mother in the early 1940s and they lived in a bedsit in West London where they did piece work to make ends meet.
- Access points: locations:
- Austria
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Finkler, Hansi
- Finkler, Walter
- Kaye, Evelyn
- Lustig, Josefine
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70438
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library
- Reference number:
- 1366
- Title:
- Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): Family documents
- Title (official language):
- Kaye, Evelyn (1930-): Family documents
- Creator/accumulator:
- Finkler, Walter, 1902-1960
- Date(s):
- 1908/1969
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- Papers of an Austrian Jewish family, Walter and Hansi Finkler and their daughter, Evelyn, who escaped the Nazis and come to England in 1939. Including personal papers of Walter and Hansi Finkler and Josefine Lustig, Hansi's sister, 1908-1969; official correspondence, 1938-1946; diaries, 1921-1935; correspondence, 1920s-1943 and ephemera and photographs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Walter Finkler was born in 1902 in Vienna where he studied at both a music academy and at a medical institute. Although he terminated his medical training early he had already written a number of scientific papers on a variety of subjects ranging from a study of monkey glands to the sexual behaviour of flies.He arrived in England at the end of March, 1939, where he spent approximately the first year in the Kitchener Camp for refugees. Later he was interned on the Isle of Man. He was actively involved in the Kitchener Camp orchestra. In 1946 he trained as a food scientist in Manchester where the family lived until 1954 after which the family moved south. Walter died in 1960.Hansi Finkler was born in 1906 and married Walter in 1927. She arrived in England in early March 1939 where she had several jobs as maid or cook in various parts of the country. Evelyn, born in 1930, had come to England in 1938 where she stayed at the 'Haven' hostel in Camden Town, a home for Jewish refugee children from Europe sponsored by the Lyons family. She was reunited with her mother in the early 1940s and they lived in a bedsit in West London where they did piece work to make ends meet.
- Access points: locations:
- Austria
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Finkler, Hansi
- Finkler, Walter
- Kaye, Evelyn
- Lustig, Josefine
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70438
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library
