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Diary of Walter Tausk

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.173 | RG Number: RG-15.118M

Overview

Description: Contains four volumes of the diary of Walter Tausk. Walter Tausk describes own experiences in Nazi Germany related to antisemitism and polices against Jews. The diary contains also newspaper clippings, photographs of leading Nazis, letters to Walter Tausk, fascists leaflets, business cards of companies Tausk worked for and meal vouchers for Jews.
Date: inclusive: 1933-1940
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Collection Creator: Walter Tausk

Physical Details

Language: German
Genre/Form: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Diaries. Leaflets. Memoirs. Photographs.
Extent: 648 digital images : JPEG ; 0,815 GB.
1 microfilm reel (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Organized in four volumes: v.19, v.20, v.23, v 25 of the seven still existing volumes.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Reproduction in any form must be approved by the Wrocław University Library
Copyright Holder: Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Wroclaw. Jews--Poland--Wrocław--History. Atrocities.
Geographic Name: Wrocław (Poland)--History.
Personal Name: Tausk, Walter, 1890-1942?

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Wroclaw University, Library, Department of Manuscripts, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2007.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

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