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  1. Schlesinger Hostel: papers

    This collection comprises original papers and correspondence which documents the establishment and maintenance of a refugee children's hostel in Highgate, London, 1938-1939. The papers offer a valuable insight into the processes and issues relating to such an enterprise. Two of the former children produced a documentary reader comprising copies and translations of much of the material in the archive (1625/1). It also includes copies of documents from Ilse Jacobsohn's (later Ilse Henry) own file. The personal files of the other children are not open to the public.

  2. Dresner family collection

  3. Georg and Eva Oppenheim collection

    This collection contains copy documentation pertaining to Georg Oppenheim's legal training and career; his trial for anti-nazi activities; his post war restitution claim and original correspondence to Eva Stein from her family and Georg Oppenheim.

  4. Ruth Wiener collection

    The papers include pre-war documents and correspondence while Ruth lived in Amsterdam; material documenting life in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps including diary and plan of Westerbork; postwar correspondence from her father, who treated her as head of the family in his absence and after her mother's death; also papers of the Klemens family.In addition readers need to book a reading room terminal to view digital content including video interviews with Ruth and Paul Klemens, c1980s

  5. Eric Erber collection

    The collection contains the personal papers of Eric, Robert and Anna, in particular vital records and identity documents. Eric’s papers include the materials he collected in seeking compensation for a property owned by his mother’s family. Robert’s papers contain materials on his dismissal from the Viennese tram company because of the Nazi race laws and a letter from the foreign representatives of the Austrian socialists offering Robert support as a political refugee. The collection also includes Robert’s correspondence with various institutions on the whereabouts of his brother Ernst, who...

  8. Sudetenland medal, ribbon, and Prague Castle Bar retrieved by US soldier Harry S. Kent

    1. Nazi party documents, correspondence and artifacts collection

    The medal is one of several artifacts of high ranking Nazi party members retrieved by United States soldier Harry S. Kent while serving in Europe during World War II (1939-1945). He was a Viennese Jewish refugee, born Siegmund Katz, who returned to Europe as a soldier with the US Army. The artifacts were likely collected as evidence by the US Army following the war.

  9. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac R,. 26 year old tannery worker from Warsaw. He was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war, the fire-warden for his building, and describes the emergency procedures take during the bombardment. He left Warsaw before the Germans entered it, making his way to check on his mother via Pulawy, Ryki, and Kazimierz Dolny, and then returning to Warsaw. He describes the damage inflicted by the German aerial bombardment, and says that in Pulawy the Germans were already seizing Jews for forced labour. In Pulawy, likewise, the Germans ruined the Jewish community financially by confisca...

  10. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of rabbi E. S., from Kremenets, a yeshiva student from the Beit Yossef yeshiva in Międzyrzec. He describes attempting to return home to Kremenets from Międzyrzec under German bombardment. At first in Międzyrzec bombs destroyed the railway but no casualties resulted, however, incendiaries and more bombs killed over 200 people in the city. The author made his way to Terespol, then to Luzhki and Divin, encountering a flood of refugees, both civilian and military, and eventually to Kobryn where the Germans caught up with him, drafting him for forced labor to bury German and Polish sol...

  11. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of D. K.. 25 year old yeshiva student in the Kleck yeshiva, resident of Brisk. He describes the heavy bombardment of the German planes, and the incendiaries which destroyed parts of the city, and led to multiple casualties. The Germans occupied Brisk and conscripted both Jews and Poles to forced labor, forced Jews to open stores on the Sabbath, and looted Jewish businesses. They detained many in the city but the detainees were freed when the Russians were about to take over the city. The Russians in their turn detained ethnic Germans in a camp and shot several as spies for the Ger...

  12. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of N. B. a 15 year old yeshiva student from Goworowo, who gives a brief account of the state of several towns under German occupation. Lapy, occupied by the Germans then by the Soviets, mostly destroyed by bombardment. Goworowo, occupied by the Germans; most of the Jews were forced to leave the city and many were killed. He lists names of several of the victims. Protocol No. 52 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence ...

  13. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The author, S. M. from Lodz, describes how at the order of Major Ulyushkovsky he and many other Jewish refugees left Lodz on September 6, 1939. He describes the difficulties on the road to Warsaw, including German bombings and machine-gun fire behind Pruszkow and anti-Semitic incidents from the Polish army. At the village of Wiskitki he learned the Germans occupied Warsaw and returned to Lodz. He provides a description of the initial repressive orders given the Lodz Jews, including curfew, expulsion from schools, firing of all state employees and physicians, and confiscation of radios. On N...

  14. [Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Zambrow (occupied by the Germans, burned, Ryki (occupied by the Germans, bombing caused severe damage), Międzyrzec Podlaski (occupied by the Germans, then by the Soviets, then by Germans again, when the Red Army left all young people left with it, several streets burned entirely), Skierniewice (occupied by the Germans, totally burned by bombing), Belchatow (occupied by the Germans, about 8000 Jews fled on the first day, thousands more later, Jewish shops looted, books conf...

  15. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. L., 18 years old, and Z. L., 21 years old carpenter, brothers from Ostrow Mazowiecki, giving details about the massacre of 561 of the city's Jews by the Germans. They describe how the Germans together with the local Poles drove the Jews out of their homes, took them outside of town, and forced them to dig mass graves. They were then forced to lie in the graves, and to take their children down into the graves, and were shot with rifles and revolvers. The survivors fled to the Russian side of the border. Protocol No. 192 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements pro...

  16. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Pessie R, from Suwałki. She describes that when the Russians left Suwalki, and the Germans entered it, they looted all merchandise fgrom Jewish stores, and fined the proprietors and the rich large fines. They issued an order that Jews must gather three days' worth of food, and were arresting people and holding them in the synagogue. The author was warned by a Polish neighbors, and hid in the cellar while her three children fled. She was let out by a neighbor, and left town for the Lithuanian border with other refugees. They remained in the no-man's-land on the border, and sever...

  17. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Record No. 17]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Perl Kirshzweig, a tailor from Warsaw describes how refugees from Łódź arrived in Warsaw and were hosted by locals, like her. Several shell fired hurt a lot of people and among them also Jews, who were treated kindly in the hospital until it was bombed, too. The situation in Warsaw rapidly declined and there was no water, electricity or food and the hospitals were extremely dirty. Jews, who wanted to take the Bus to the hospital in Łódź were forced out of their seats and their tickets sold to polish Christians. In contrast to that, Kirshzweig testifies about acts of kindness from german sol...

  18. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of N. K., 17 year old student from Warsaw. He describes the repressions and orders on Jews after the German occupying forces entered Warsaw; Jews had to give up their radios, and were forbidden from having more than 2000 zloty in their possession. Monetary fines were imposed and a curfew set in place punishable by shooting. The Jews were forbidden to live in certain streets, and restricted from purchasing new housing in others. He describes seizures of Jews for forced labor and the resulting deaths and physical damage as a consequence, as well as the closing of Jewish businesses, ...

  19. [Jews and the 'Non-Aryan' suffer in nation's life]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several newspaper articles in German and English regarding criticism on the policy of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. The newspaper articels are published in the years of 1936 and 1938. All of the articles express and disucuss the situation in Germany. Articles like 'Racialism divides people of Reich', 'Jews and 'Non-Aryan' suffer in nation's life', 'the consequences are tragic' or 'deportation of Anti-Nazis'. The articels have an enlightening character as well as an accusing one. The publisher adress in their articles the nation of their countries, th...

  20. The Disaster of Wyszkow - Bulletin No. 4

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the destruction of the town of Wyszków. It describes the aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the city, which resulted in many casualties that could not due to the strength of the shelling be buried. When the Germans entered the city they shot and killed many of the wounded. The bulletin lists numerous names of victims. The victims were buried in mass graves. The Germans occupied the city, arrested refugees attempting to leave and burned tor...