Private Papers of E I Sanders

Ts reminiscences (total 53pp), based in part on his contemporary diaries and correspondence, covering his Austrian Jewish background (he was born Erich Schwartz) and escape from Vienna in 1938, service as a private with 88 Company Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, 1940 – 1943, with Special Operations Executive, 1943 – 1945, with 6 Base Censor Group (1945) and finally with the Control Commission Austria with details principally of his service with SOE including his training, duties as a wireless operator and life in Italy during preparation for a potential mission in Austria with useful descriptions of other SOE agents and his civilian contacts in Italy as well as links with his family, including his brother who died in Italy before the meeting they had arranged could take place; also photocopies of five photographs of SOE members in uniform, a printed record of members of SOE who died while serving with the organisation and photocopies (total 92pp) of ts papers relating principally to 12 Force SOE, including transcripts of official records provided by the SOE Adviser and disjointed extracts from the memoirs of Lieutenant Patrick Martin-Smith, in addition to media articles and letters, with useful details of the DANBURY/SEATHRIFT and HISTORIAN missions including descriptions of clandestine operations in Austria and Northern Italy, 1944 – 1945, insight into the chaos surrounding the surrender of Axis troops in Austria at the end of the war, contact with Italian partisan forces and with anti-Nazi Austrian civilians, escaped and evading Allied personnel and reports (often very detailed) on the experiences of individual SOE agents including Lieutenant Otto Karminski, Lieutenant Bryant and Major Walter Freud. Together with two leaflets issued by the Jewish People's Council Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, based in London (1p each, October 1938 and March 1939), calling for a boycott of Nazi goods, and the dangers of Fascism abroad and at home.

Ts reminiscences (total 53pp), based in part on his contemporary diaries and correspondence, covering his Austrian Jewish background (he was born Erich Schwartz) and escape from Vienna in 1938, service as a private with 88 Company Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, 1940 – 1943, with Special Operations Executive, 1943 – 1945, with 6 Base Censor Group (1945) and finally with the Control Commission Austria with details principally of his service with SOE including his training, duties as a wireless operator and life in Italy during preparation for a potential mission in Austria with useful descriptions of other SOE agents and his civilian contacts in Italy as well as links with his family, including his brother who died in Italy before the meeting they had arranged could take place; also photocopies of five photographs of SOE members in uniform, a printed record of members of SOE who died while serving with the organisation and photocopies (total 92pp) of ts papers relating principally to 12 Force SOE, including transcripts of official records provided by the SOE Adviser and disjointed extracts from the memoirs of Lieutenant Patrick Martin-Smith, in addition to media articles and letters, with useful details of the DANBURY/SEATHRIFT and HISTORIAN missions including descriptions of clandestine operations in Austria and Northern Italy, 1944 – 1945, insight into the chaos surrounding the surrender of Axis troops in Austria at the end of the war, contact with Italian partisan forces and with anti-Nazi Austrian civilians, escaped and evading Allied personnel and reports (often very detailed) on the experiences of individual SOE agents including Lieutenant Otto Karminski, Lieutenant Bryant and Major Walter Freud. Together with two leaflets issued by the Jewish People's Council Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, based in London (1p each, October 1938 and March 1939), calling for a boycott of Nazi goods, and the dangers of Fascism abroad and at home.

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