Metadata : Private Papers of E J Kolb
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Reference number:
- Documents.11893
- Title:
- Private Papers of E J Kolb
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of E J Kolb
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kolb, E J
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Translation (71pp ts, with introduction and footnotes), from the original Hungarian into German, of a journal kept by Kolb while he was a prisoner in the 'Ungarnlager [Hungarian Camp]' in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen between July - December 1944, having been active in the wartime Hungarian Jewish resistance movement and transported to Belsen as part of the so-called `Kasztner Group' of ransomed Hungarian Jews, recording in impressionistic fashion the journey from Budapest to Belsen and life in the Hungarian Camp, with particular regard to religious and cultural activities but also detailing everyday events; Kolb left the camp in December 1944 for Switzerland.
- Access points: locations:
- Bergen-Belsen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kolb, E J
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030011762
- Reference number:
- Documents.11893
- Title:
- Private Papers of E J Kolb
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of E J Kolb
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kolb, E J
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Translation (71pp ts, with introduction and footnotes), from the original Hungarian into German, of a journal kept by Kolb while he was a prisoner in the 'Ungarnlager [Hungarian Camp]' in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen between July - December 1944, having been active in the wartime Hungarian Jewish resistance movement and transported to Belsen as part of the so-called `Kasztner Group' of ransomed Hungarian Jews, recording in impressionistic fashion the journey from Budapest to Belsen and life in the Hungarian Camp, with particular regard to religious and cultural activities but also detailing everyday events; Kolb left the camp in December 1944 for Switzerland.
- Access points: locations:
- Bergen-Belsen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kolb, E J
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030011762
