Metadata : Private Papers of A Ward
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.6575
- Title:
- Private Papers of A Ward
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of A Ward
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ward, A
- Date(s):
- 1930/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Photocopy of a memoir (13pp ts) consisting of recollections of his childhood in a Jewish family in Poland during the 1930s (Lublin and Radom districts), life in the Kozenice ghetto after the German occupation in 1939 and subsequent experiences in labour camps in the Radom area before being transferred to Buchenwald, Flossberg and finally Mauthausen concentration camps, liberation from the latter camp in May 1945, and his 'rehabilitation' in England after the war; photocopies of several documents relevant to the memoir (3pp ts); and a series of letters (15pp ms) written to him following a talk he gave about his experiences to pupils at Claremont High School, Harrow, in 1993.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ward, A
- 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/1030006431
- Reference number:
- Documents.6575
- Title:
- Private Papers of A Ward
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of A Ward
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ward, A
- Date(s):
- 1930/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Photocopy of a memoir (13pp ts) consisting of recollections of his childhood in a Jewish family in Poland during the 1930s (Lublin and Radom districts), life in the Kozenice ghetto after the German occupation in 1939 and subsequent experiences in labour camps in the Radom area before being transferred to Buchenwald, Flossberg and finally Mauthausen concentration camps, liberation from the latter camp in May 1945, and his 'rehabilitation' in England after the war; photocopies of several documents relevant to the memoir (3pp ts); and a series of letters (15pp ms) written to him following a talk he gave about his experiences to pupils at Claremont High School, Harrow, in 1993.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ward, A
- 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/1030006431
