| LC control no. | n 50009812 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PT2639.E8 |
| Personal name heading | Serner, Walter, 1889-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Seligmann, Walter Eduard, 1889-1942 Serner, Walter, b. 1889 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000117597577 |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1889 |
| Death date | 1942-08 |
| Place of birth | Bohemia (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | Rīga (Latvia) |
| Field of activity | Dadaist literature Authors Essayists |
| Affiliation | Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia |
| Found in | His Die Tigerin, 1971. Das Hirngeschwür, 1977: Vita, p. 159-160 (Walter Serner; b. 1/15/1889; 1933: all books banned and disappearance of Serner) German Wikipedia WWW site, Dec. 18, 2006 (Walter Serner; real name Walter Eduard Seligmann; b. Jan. 15, 1889, Karlsbad/Bohemia; m. Dorothea Herz, 1938; lived in Prague; deported to Theresienstadt, Aug. 10, 1942; essayist, author and Dadaist) English Wikipedia website, viewed Feb. 14, 2015 (In 1938 Serner married his partner Dorothea Herz in Prague, where he was working as a private teacher. When war broke out, they had no chance to escape from the occupied country. In 1942 he and his wife were interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and three weeks later were moved in the direction of "the East", where they perished in Riga; died Aug. 1942) New York times, 24 October 2016: page A6 ("Germany confronts, in a unique exhibit, its 'Holocaust of the Bullets"; Although Serner, born Walter Seligmann in Bohemia, converted to Catholicism in 1909, to the Nazis he was a Jew. In 1942, after an itinerant life, Serner and his wife were arrested and sent to Theresienstadt, and then on to the Latvian capital, Riga. Along with the 900 or so other Jews on their transport train, they were shot in a forest outside the city in August 1942.) <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/world/europe/germany-confronts-in-unique-exhibit-its-holocaust-of-the-bullets.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Falison-smale&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection> Wikidata in VIAF, 26 October 2016 (access point: Walter Serner, Essayist, Schriftsteller und Dadaist) |
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