gb-003348-wl1418
type: RecordSet
conditions of access: Open
has beginning date: 1964-01-01
has end date: 1973-01-31
has or had holder: gb-003348
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Collection
history: The book is the true account of a libel case brought in 1964 in London by Dr Wladislaw Alexander Dering, former prisoner-doctor in Auschwitz against Leon Uris, author of Exodus, and the publishers of that book, for alleged defamation of character, specifically in Uris' statement that Dering had performed 17,000 'experiments' in surgery without anaesthetic. The jury found for the plaintiff but only awarded him the smallest coin in the realm and awarded costs to the defendants.
identifier: WL1418
record resource extent: 2 folders
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection consists of correspondence and contracts regarding the publication of Auschwitz in England , by Mavis M. Hill and L. Norman Williams. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and contracts re the publication of the book and issues relating toa BBC broadcast of a dramatisation of the book. In addition there is a copy transcript of the testimony of Dering during the trial (1418/146).
title: Documentation re the publication of Auschwitz in England