Correspondence with Bernfes, Alexander B.

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1556 3000/9/1/139
  • Dates of Creation
      06/04/1961 - 30/08/1963
  • Language of Material
      German
  • Physical Description
      6 letters

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding archival material on the Warsaw Ghetto, and a potential involvement of The Wiener Library in an upcoming exhibition on this subject.

Administrative / Biographical History

Alexander Bernfes (1909-1986) was a Polish born British Holocaust survivor. After having escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941 he came to England and built up a large collection of Holocaust related films, photographs and other testimonies of German atrocities.

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