Abstract
The notes sets out the approach to transcribing, translating and annotating the German language correspondence of Marianne Angermann-Bielschowsky and her the diaries of her mother, Charlotte Angermann, which are held by the Hocken Collections, Dunedin, New Zealand. These texts were written in Old German handwriting and deal with the experiences of Marianne Angermann-Bielschowsky in Madrid, Spain during the Spanish Civil War, as well as those of her mother in Dresden, Germany.