Metadata: Private Papers of W Berent
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
- Reference number:
- Documents.15912
- Title:
- Private Papers of W Berent
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of W Berent
- Creator/accumulator:
- Berent, Walter
- Date(s):
- 1930/1946
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Photocopy of the translated memoirs (26pp ts) of Walter Berent, originally written in 1954, concerning his experiences as a German Jew living in Danzig in the 1930s, where he held a senior post in the regional courts before being forced out of office by the Nazis in 1937, the anti-Jewish abuse to which he and his family were subjected and their decision to leave Germany, conditions in Danzig after the outbreak of war in September 1939, his journey to Italy with his wife on a tourist visa obtained against the odds from the Italian consulate in Danzig (their children had gone to England on a Kindertransport), their internment following Italy's entry into the war (June 1940), in camps at Campagna, Tortoreto, Ferramonti and Picinisco, the arrival of German troops there in September 1943 which compelled the Berents and other internees to leave the camp and take refuge in the surrounding mountains where they survived in a cave hide-out before making their way to Rome, finding clandestine accommodation in the city for the remainder of the war, and re-joining their children in England in 1946.
- Access points: locations:
- Gdansk
- Access points: persons/families:
- Berent, Walter
- 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/1030015610
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25