Collection: Private Papers of Major A W Freud

Photocopy of his ts memoir (67pp) covering principally his experiences as an internee in the United Kingdom and Australia (1940 - 1941); with the Pioneer Corps, attached to the 87th Company at Pembroke Dock, South Wales and elsewhere (1941 - 1942) and with the Austrian Country Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during training in England, Scotland and Italy and on a mission behind enemy lines in Austria, April - May 1945, together with other papers including an interesting ms account (24pp) of conditions for internees being transported to Australia in the DUNERA, passes, secret radio codes and documents relating to his post-war service with No 2 War Crimes Investigation Team, including a report on Zyklon B as well as correspondence, mainly in German, from his father, Martin (the eldest son of Sigmund Freud) written between 1935 and 1965 and covering principally Dr Freud's experiences in England after fleeing Austria in 1938 including his service in the Pioneer Corps (after being released from internment), 1940 - 1941, and subsequent employment on factory work, civil defence in London and, from 1943 onwards, as an auditor for the National Dock Labour Corporation with useful references to Austrian emigres, including his wife and daughter who fled to the United States from occupied France via North Africa, and civilian conditions; together with other papers relating to him and the Freud family and post-war correspondence and papers relating mainly to other emigres including internees and former members of SOE such as F M Warner (including a copy of Warner's memoir 'Don't you know there's a war on?'), for example, but comprising also letters from academics and official institutions and an account of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939 and a report by a British Liaison Officer operating with clandestine forces in Yugoslavia, 1943 - 1944. Includes 24 photographs (some colour) showing Freud and others in uniform, as well as photographs of Belsen.

Photocopy of his ts memoir (67pp) covering principally his experiences as an internee in the United Kingdom and Australia (1940 - 1941); with the Pioneer Corps, attached to the 87th Company at Pembroke Dock, South Wales and elsewhere (1941 - 1942) and with the Austrian Country Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during training in England, Scotland and Italy and on a mission behind enemy lines in Austria, April - May 1945, together with other papers including an interesting ms account (24pp) of conditions for internees being transported to Australia in the DUNERA, passes, secret radio codes and documents relating to his post-war service with No 2 War Crimes Investigation Team, including a report on Zyklon B as well as correspondence, mainly in German, from his father, Martin (the eldest son of Sigmund Freud) written between 1935 and 1965 and covering principally Dr Freud's experiences in England after fleeing Austria in 1938 including his service in the Pioneer Corps (after being released from internment), 1940 - 1941, and subsequent employment on factory work, civil defence in London and, from 1943 onwards, as an auditor for the National Dock Labour Corporation with useful references to Austrian emigres, including his wife and daughter who fled to the United States from occupied France via North Africa, and civilian conditions; together with other papers relating to him and the Freud family and post-war correspondence and papers relating mainly to other emigres including internees and former members of SOE such as F M Warner (including a copy of Warner's memoir 'Don't you know there's a war on?'), for example, but comprising also letters from academics and official institutions and an account of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939 and a report by a British Liaison Officer operating with clandestine forces in Yugoslavia, 1943 - 1944. Includes 24 photographs (some colour) showing Freud and others in uniform, as well as photographs of Belsen.

Cataloguer AC

Catalogue date 2005-01