• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1712
• English
• 1919-1995
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection consists of correpondence from Grete and James Pick, who emigrated to China, to their friends Willy and Else Heymann, who had emigrated to New Zealand.Letters providing details of the procedures for refugees arriving in Shanghai, impressions of Chinese culture, James Pick's professional life in Tientsin, and Pick's return to Germany after the Second World War.Also included are a copy letter to Willy Heymann by a general who he cared for in World War I, the wedding ode for Else and Willy Heymann's wedding, Else Heymann's memoirs of her visit to Constantinople between 1917-191...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1842
• English
• 1934-1936
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the personal papers of Else Löwy-Leseritz, a Jewish medical doctor from North Rhine-Westphalia, who was murdered in the Holocaust.Photocopies of the medical qualifications and work references of Else Löwy-Leseritz.

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1792
• English
• 1939-1940
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection consists of correspondence from Emilie Bergmann who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England. She describes her life in the ghetto, the scarcity of food and requests for food parcels, her health problems and her longing to be released.Correspondence from Emilie Bergmann, who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England.

1. Manuskripte
2. Dokumenten- u. Materialsammlungen

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 378 / 1
• German
• 1967
• Manuskripte getrennte Paginierung
• Updated 10 years ago

Ersatz für den vergriffenen "Catalogue of Camps and Prisons in Germany and German-Occupied Territories Sept. 1, 1939 - May 8, 1945" (Gestapo, SA und SS unterstehende Lager, Zwangsarbeiterlager, Durchgangslager, Vernichtungslager, Konzentrationslager, Arbeitserziehungslager, Ghetto Theresienstadt, SS-Sonderlager Hinzert, Sicherungslager Vorbruck-Schirmeck, Jugendschutzlager, Lager in Norwegen und Frankreich etc.; Ermittlungsstand von 1967; (1933-1945) Mschr., hekt.

1. Manuskripte
2. Abhandlungen, Studien, Berichte

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 548 / 1
• German
• 1963
• Manuskripte 45 Seiten
• Updated 10 years ago

Der Bericht beschreibt die Träger rechtsradikaler Tendenzen im Bundesgebiet, ihre Argumente und Parolen; er informiert über rechtswidrige Aktionen, die Täter und deren Beweggründe sowie über die Einflüsse verfassungswidriger Kräfte; der vierte und fünfte Teil befaßt sich mit den Auswirkungen des internationalen Faschismus in der Bundesrepublik und den staatlichen Abwehrmaßnahmen; (1962) Mschr., hekt., verfasst 1963.

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1803
• English
• 1913-1991
• 2 folders, 88 photographs
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the personal papers of Eric Curzon and his wife Käthe (née Kupferberg),  Jewish refugees who met in London after they had both fled Nazi German persecutions in their home towns of Vienna and Leipzig.Personal papers including Eric Curzon's documents such as qualifications; Heimatschein; birth, police clearance and naturalisation certificates; last will and testament; and a brief personal account relating to the Austrian annexation and his emigration. Also included is Käthe Curzon's correspondence from family and friends as well as a diary (1939-1941) written in ...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1739
• English
• 1945-2007
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains an eyewitness account and reminiscences by Eric Nash, a Jewish Czech physician who survived Terezin and Auschwitz concentration camps and the death march to Dachau, where he was liberated by the American army. Most members of his closest family did not survive the Holocaust.Personal account and reminiscences. Also included is a letter (with a translation into English) written to relatives in New York shortly after his liberation describing in graphic detail the fate of his loved ones and his experiences in the concentration camps; and notes regarding a trip through ...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1154
• English
• 1886-1994
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This miscellaneous collection of copy papers document, in part, the life of Eric Walters-Kohn's family. The material comprises copy published and unpublished documents

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1585
• English
• 2000
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Account of Reichskristallnacht in Aachen 

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1736
• English
• 1939-2007
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains correspondence regarding the family history of Erica Prean. Research into the history of the family was carried out as part of a project at the Walburgisgymnasium in Menden to commemorate the lives of the Jewish citizens who were victims of the Shoah. Family papers Including is a photocopy of a family photograph.Also included are transcripts and translations into English of letters sent to Ilse Bernstein and her daughter Erica in England from Ilse's parents Carl and Emmy Bernstein and aunt Adda (1939-1940) English and German Also text of talk given at HMD 27.1.2018,...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1801
• English
• 1916-2008
• 1 box
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the personal papers of Erich and Fanny Walter (née Pilpel) and those of her father Emil Leon Pilpel and sister Charlotte Smith (née Pilpel).

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1788
• English
• 1891-1988
• 2 boxes
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection consists of the family papers of Erich and Magdalena Schulhof, a Jewish family who fled Berlin after they were forced to sell their business due to the increasing Aryanisation of Nazi-Germany in the late 1930s.Personal papers including the couple's school reports and qualifications; birth, death and baptism certificates; naturalisation certificate; passports; papers relating to Erich Schulhof's work and the family's restitution claim; correspondence with family and friends; family portraits and copy of the family history. Also included are the papers of their children and th...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1737
• English
• 1920-1933
• 3 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the personal papers of Erich Hirschowitz, a German Jew who emigrated to Paris as a refugee in 1933.Included are his school and university qualifications; French identity card; speech held by Erich and Ernst at Adele and Bernhard Hirschowitz's wedding in 1932 and notes on his experiences in exile in 1933. Also includes family photographs, press cutting and six prints of '"Die alte Stadt" Mappe II: Bilder aus dem alten Berlin'

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1063
• English
• 1986
• 4 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

The original letters and postcards in this collection document the experiences of Erich Kaiser, a German emigré journalist in France The papers consist of original correspondence mainly between Erich and sister Ilse (-/1); examples of Erich Kaiser's journalism (-/2); miscellaneous papers (-/3); and correspondence with the Wiener Library (-/4)

1. Nachlässe
2. Hentig, Werner Otto
3. Aufzeichnungen, Korr'n

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ED 113 / 3
• German
• 1964
• Updated 10 years ago

Masch. Aufzeichnungen "Erinnerungen" W.O. von Hentig 1964, hier zur einzelnen Personen (Eisenlohr, Brockdorff-Rantzau, Weizsäcker, Neurath, Nadolny, Maltzan, Dieckhoff, Heinrich XXXI, Trott zu Solz, Schulenburg, Kroll, Papen, Hassell, Voretzsch, Riesser, Schüler, Rümelin, Bülow, Hoesch, Mackeben, Dircksen, Ullrich, Zech, Schlobies, Haxthausen, Zechlin, Ribbentrop), 56 S., mit Begleitschreiben W.O. von Hentig an Dr. Ulrich, 31. März 1964.

1. Manuskripte
2. Erinnerungen, Erlebnisberichte, Autobiographien

• auf Anfrage seiner im Rahmen eines Schüleraustausches in den USA weilenden Enkeltochter Lisa Drössler

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 2035 / 1
• German
• 1999-2002
• Manuskripte 38 Seiten
• Updated 10 years ago

Curriculum vitae from Günter Bernhard Leo Fettweis (5 Seiten). Der Band enthält die briefliche Bitte der Enkeltochter von Günter Fettweis, Lisa Drössler, ihr seine persönlichen Erfahrungen mit dem Nationalsozialismus mitzuteilen (23.3.1999); das Antwortschreiben des Großvaters (26.3.1999); die maschinenschriftliche Abschrift seiner Tonbandaufzeichnung (6.4.1999 bzw. Frühjahr 2002); die Hausarbeit "SS - KZ - PR, Schutzstaffel, Concentration Camps, Propaganda" von Lisa Drössler;Themen, die G. Fettweis in seiner Aufzeichnung anspricht: Seine damalige Einstellung zum Nationalsozialismus und die...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1767
• English
• 1920-1994
• 3 folders
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the family papers of Ernest and Edit Gruenwald who emigrated to the UK from Silesia and Hungary respectively to flee Jewish persecution.Personal papers including birth and marriage certificates, Edit's school reports, correspondence relating to Ernest's unsuccessful applications to enlist with the army, certificate of naturalisation, Cessation of Seagoing Service (Merchant Navy) certificate, correspondence from the Foreign Compensation Commission regarding claims against the Czechoslovak and Hungarian Compensation Funds, work references and correspondence relating t...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1715
• English
• 1921-1979
• 1 box
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the personal papers of Ernst and Vera Velden who emigrated separately as Jewish refugees to England in 1939 and later got married.Included are emigration papers such as birth certificates, school certificates, Heimatschein; and application and certificates of naturalisation. Also includes a photograph; correspondence from family and friends relating to news about the lives of relatives, support for Jewish relief funds, Ernst's search for employment and application for an American visa; and papers relating to war compensation claims for both Ernst and Vera Velden.

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL524
• English
• 1941-1959
• c97 frames
• Updated 2 years ago

Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access the digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents deals with a law suit brought by Osram, against a former employee, Ernst Schaefer before the Reichsverwaltungsgericht, Berlin, 1941. The gist of the ruling is that in light of a new law affecting Jewish WWI veterans (29 December 1938) the firm was justified in terminating a previous agreement in which Schaefer was to receive a pension and other benefits.The collection includes covering letters addressed to the Wiener Library, a copy of the court's finding and ...

1. Image Collection NIOD

• NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
• 35893
• Dutch
• Updated 5 years ago

Eröffnung des Justituts zur Erforschung der Judenfrage. Im Rahmen einer feierlichen Kundgebung eröffnete Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg in Frankfurt als erste Ausserstelle der Hohen Schule der NSDAP das 'Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage' in Gegenwart namhafter deutscher Vertreter von Wissenschaft, Partei und Staat und zahlreicher ausländischer Ehrengäste. - Damit wird von der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung mitten im Krieg die wissenschaftliche Arbeit über eine Frage aufgenommen, die als Völker Europas angeht. Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, daneben links den Oberbürgermeister der Sta...