Metadata : Private Papers of Miss A Weiss
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.13686
- Title:
- Private Papers of Miss A Weiss
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of Miss A Weiss
- Creator/accumulator:
- Weiss, Auguste
- Date(s):
- 1939/1944
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Documents (in German and English) concerning Auguste Weiss, a German-Jewish refugee who emigrated to England in 1939, including: German passport issued to her in Mannheim in April 1939; private and official correspondence concerning her emigration to the UK and her placement as a domestic help in London and Romford; correspondence etc concerning her application for a visa to the USA during the Second World War; 5 items of correspondence dated between 1940 - 1944 from her parents Sigmund and Emma Weiss, who were held in the French internment camps at Gurs and Resebedou (Haute Garonne), together with a postwar enquiry about their fate sent to the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross at Arolsen; postwar correspondence concerning her application for British naturalisation and other matters; and miscellaneous postwar correspondence, much of it regarding the legal estate of the family in Germany.
- Access points: locations:
- Bad Arolsen
- Gurs
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Weiss, Auguste
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Refugees
- 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/1030013540
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Reference number:
- Documents.13686
- Title:
- Private Papers of Miss A Weiss
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of Miss A Weiss
- Creator/accumulator:
- Weiss, Auguste
- Date(s):
- 1939/1944
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Documents (in German and English) concerning Auguste Weiss, a German-Jewish refugee who emigrated to England in 1939, including: German passport issued to her in Mannheim in April 1939; private and official correspondence concerning her emigration to the UK and her placement as a domestic help in London and Romford; correspondence etc concerning her application for a visa to the USA during the Second World War; 5 items of correspondence dated between 1940 - 1944 from her parents Sigmund and Emma Weiss, who were held in the French internment camps at Gurs and Resebedou (Haute Garonne), together with a postwar enquiry about their fate sent to the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross at Arolsen; postwar correspondence concerning her application for British naturalisation and other matters; and miscellaneous postwar correspondence, much of it regarding the legal estate of the family in Germany.
- Access points: locations:
- Bad Arolsen
- Gurs
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Weiss, Auguste
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Refugees
- 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/1030013540
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
