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Object description
Photocopy of an unpublished edition of letters (70pp ts) written during July - November 1940 by German-Jewish refugee Georg Strietzel to his wife Lore whilst an internee in Huyton camp, Liverpool, and later with the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in Shipley Barracks, Bradford, describing his daily life in the Huyton camp, expressing his longing to be with his wife and son, commenting on other family members and fellow internees, and tracing his efforts to arrange his release from internment and to join the AMPC. The letters (translated and edited by Georg's son) are prefaced by a brief family history, narrating Georg's early life in Breslau where he subsequently found employment with the Jewish communal administration, was arrested after `Kristallnacht' in 1938 and held in Buchenwald concentration camp before being allowed to emigrate to England in April 1939 with his wife and son, settling in the Manchester area where his brother Max was already living - Georg Strietzel later took the name George Streat. With the document are photocopies of various concert programmes featuring Max Strietzel and his Pioneer Corps Orchestra.
Content description
Photocopy of an unpublished edition of letters (70pp ts) written during July - November 1940 by German-Jewish refugee Georg Strietzel to his wife Lore whilst an internee in Huyton camp, Liverpool, and later with the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in Shipley Barracks, Bradford, describing his daily life in the Huyton camp, expressing his longing to be with his wife and son, commenting on other family members and fellow internees, and tracing his efforts to arrange his release from internment and to join the AMPC. The letters (translated and edited by Georg's son) are prefaced by a brief family history, narrating Georg's early life in Breslau where he subsequently found employment with the Jewish communal administration, was arrested after `Kristallnacht' in 1938 and held in Buchenwald concentration camp before being allowed to emigrate to England in April 1939 with his wife and son, settling in the Manchester area where his brother Max was already living - Georg Strietzel later took the name George Streat. With the document are photocopies of various concert programmes featuring Max Strietzel and his Pioneer Corps Orchestra.
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