Papers of and concerning exile-related organisations
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TitlePapers of and concerning exile-related organisations
Held atUniversity of London, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Reference codeEXS/1
Date1940-2003
Scope and ContentThis series contains records created by a variety of organisations related to the subject of refugees and exiles from Nazi-occupied Central Europe. The organisations can be broadly classified into the following groups:
1) grass-roots level refugee groups like the the Birmingham Jewish Refugee Club, and the culturally-oriented Freier Deutscher Kulturbund and the Heinrich Heine Club, as well as informal groups of prisoners in the internment camps;
2) refugee organisations affiliated to non-governmental international movements (PEN Centre of German-speaking Writers Abroad); and
3) organisations carrying out research into exile-related subjects, such as the Kurt Hiller Gesellschaft and the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of German Studies (now the Institute of Modern Languages Research). The records of the latter organisation form the greatest proportion of this series, and include the audio recordings and transcripts of an oral history project on German-speaking exiles in the UK carried out in the mid-1990s.
The records of organisations in the first of these two categories date mainly from the period 1940 to 1946; the records of the organisations in groups 3) and 4) date from the post-war period (mainly from the 1980s and 1990s). All but one of the organisations, the Kurt Hiller Gesellschaft, are UK-based.
1) grass-roots level refugee groups like the the Birmingham Jewish Refugee Club, and the culturally-oriented Freier Deutscher Kulturbund and the Heinrich Heine Club, as well as informal groups of prisoners in the internment camps;
2) refugee organisations affiliated to non-governmental international movements (PEN Centre of German-speaking Writers Abroad); and
3) organisations carrying out research into exile-related subjects, such as the Kurt Hiller Gesellschaft and the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of German Studies (now the Institute of Modern Languages Research). The records of the latter organisation form the greatest proportion of this series, and include the audio recordings and transcripts of an oral history project on German-speaking exiles in the UK carried out in the mid-1990s.
The records of organisations in the first of these two categories date mainly from the period 1940 to 1946; the records of the organisations in groups 3) and 4) date from the post-war period (mainly from the 1980s and 1990s). All but one of the organisations, the Kurt Hiller Gesellschaft, are UK-based.
Conditions governing accessOpen. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits.
Extent7 boxes
System of ArrangementAlphabetical by organization name
Level of descriptionsub-fonds