According to the online description, this collection contains letters sent by Jewish refugee Dr Walter Manfred (‘Fred’) Bergmann, a medical surgeon, to his wife Ruth Bergmann, first from an internment camp in Huyton, Liverpool and then, after transfer of the camp, from Douglas on the Isle of Man (1687/1-41). (See also transcripts and translations of letters 1687/14-41 (1687/2).) There is only one letter written by Ruth Bergmann to her husband. She and her children found refuge in a hostel in Cheshire with the help of the Quakers. The letters document the family’s efforts to obtain Fred’s release and his life at the internment camps. Also included are the memoirs of their daughter Renée (1687/3) writing about the lives of their parents before the Second World War, the house arrest at the Jewish hospital in Leipzig in 1938/1939, the family’s escape from Germany, their time as refugees in England, and new beginnings in the East End of London after the war.
Original source name : Bergmann family: internment letters and memoirs
English translation : Bergmann family: internment letters and memoirs
Creator : Family
Document- type 1 : diary/memoir
Document- type 2 : personal
Reference number : GB 1556 WL1687
Language(s) : English
Geographical coverage : United Kingdom
Time range : 20th-21stc.
Year(s) : 1940-2004
Theme 1 : family
Theme 2 : war and displacement
Link to the item in the catalogue : https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/Search/AdvancedSearch
Publication(s) : Tyack, Renée, They Called Her Cassandra: a Story of Survival, Brighton 2008
English translation : Bergmann family: internment letters and memoirs
Creator : Family
Document- type 1 : diary/memoir
Document- type 2 : personal
Reference number : GB 1556 WL1687
Language(s) : English
Geographical coverage : United Kingdom
Time range : 20th-21stc.
Year(s) : 1940-2004
Theme 1 : family
Theme 2 : war and displacement
Link to the item in the catalogue : https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/Search/AdvancedSearch
Publication(s) : Tyack, Renée, They Called Her Cassandra: a Story of Survival, Brighton 2008
Archive name : The Wiener Holocaust Library
Archive name (English) : The Wiener Holocaust Library
Archive address : 30 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
City : London
Country : United Kingdom
Official website and institutional resources : https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/Search/AdvancedSearch
Finding aid(s) : No
Archive name (English) : The Wiener Holocaust Library
Archive address : 30 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
City : London
Country : United Kingdom
Official website and institutional resources : https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/Search/AdvancedSearch
Finding aid(s) : No