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A.P. PERES. CORRESPONDENCE WITH Dr. E. BENES AND OTHER PAPERS, 1939-1948

Catalogue reference: 1163

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This record is about the A.P. PERES. CORRESPONDENCE WITH Dr. E. BENES AND OTHER PAPERS, 1939-1948 dating from 1939-1948.

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Reference
1163
Title
A.P. PERES. CORRESPONDENCE WITH Dr. E. BENES AND OTHER PAPERS, 1939-1948
Date
1939-1948
Description

These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years. The papers include correspondence between Alfred Pavel Peres and the president of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes.

Arrangement

The material has been arranged into the following order: minutes of meetings with Peres and Benes and others (1163/1); correspondence to named individuals and general-much of it in Czech (1163/2); news reports re the post war situation in Czechoslovakia (1163/3); press cuttings (1163/4); miscellaneous material

Held by
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>Peres, Alfred Pavel</persname>
Physical description
2 folders
Immediate source of acquisition

August 1994

Administrative / biographical background

Little is known about Alfred Pavel Peres save for the fact that he was an international lawyer and that he helped Benes get visas for political liberals. He was a member of the Deutsch-demokratischen Freiheitspartei.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/90e4a0b2-a7d5-499b-8ca9-70597f7cbad8/

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A.P. PERES. CORRESPONDENCE WITH Dr. E. BENES AND OTHER PAPERS, 1939-1948