Metadata : Private Papers of R Halter
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.13529
- Title:
- Private Papers of R Halter
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of R Halter
- Creator/accumulator:
- Halter, Roman
- Date(s):
- 1939/1944
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Photocopy of part of a handwritten account (16pp ms, 1997) of his childhood experiences of the German occupation of his home town Chodecz in Poland in 1939, the deportation of the entire Jewish population to the Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in late 1940 where he was put to work in a metal-processing factory, surviving the ordeal until 1944 when he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, describing the long journey there in the locked cattle-trucks; photocopies of official German documents recording the transfer of prisoners from Stutthof to Flossenburg concentration camps in November 1944, with a list of the prisoners including Roman Halter's name; and photocopies of various photographs (mostly from published sources) captioned by Halter.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Halter, Roman
- 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/1030013389
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Reference number:
- Documents.13529
- Title:
- Private Papers of R Halter
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of R Halter
- Creator/accumulator:
- Halter, Roman
- Date(s):
- 1939/1944
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Photocopy of part of a handwritten account (16pp ms, 1997) of his childhood experiences of the German occupation of his home town Chodecz in Poland in 1939, the deportation of the entire Jewish population to the Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in late 1940 where he was put to work in a metal-processing factory, surviving the ordeal until 1944 when he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, describing the long journey there in the locked cattle-trucks; photocopies of official German documents recording the transfer of prisoners from Stutthof to Flossenburg concentration camps in November 1944, with a list of the prisoners including Roman Halter's name; and photocopies of various photographs (mostly from published sources) captioned by Halter.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Halter, Roman
- 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/1030013389
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
