Correspondence with Deak, Gertrud
Extent and Medium
10 letters
Biographical History
Gertrud Deak was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor. She had been deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944/45. She lived in London after the Second World War, and worked partly for The Wiener Library.
Scope and Content
Correspondence regarding an eyewitness account by Deak for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project as well as her subsequent employment at The Wiener Library. The latter includes matters regarding her payment, leave, and also emotional problems related to her former internment in concentration camps.
Conditions Governing Access
closed
People
- Deak, Gertrud
Corporate Bodies
- The Wiener Library
Subjects
- Trauma
- Persecution, after-effects
- Personal narratives
- Survivors
Places
- Great Britain