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  1. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State recommends to the Brazilian Embassy 11 non-Aryan catholic refugees in Great Britain willing to emigrate to Brazil.

  3. The Tythrop Institute: copy papers re appeal for funds

    This collection of copy papers deals with the project of a group called the Langham Committee, whose object was to put to work several hundred German, Austrian and Czech Jewish refugees on the renovation of a delapidated manor House and grounds, Tythrop House. For a system of block guarantees a small band of young people came together calling themselves 'the Langham Committee' which has been able to ensure that some 200 working class men and girls are able to enter Great Britain.This copy appeal and account documents the committee's activities. 929/3 is a narrative account of its activities...

  4. Herbert Malinow collection

    This collection comprises material which documents the period when Herbert Malinow was interned as an enemy alien and subsequently transported on the infamous ship, HMS Dunera to Australia. It includes diaries, correspondence and press cuttings

  7. Identification tag worn by a young boy on a Kindertransport

    1. Fred Lindheim family collection

    Cardboard Red Cross tag with his name inscribed worn by Fred Lindheim in December 1938 when his parents sent him from Frankfurt, Germany, on a Kindertransport to Belgium. His parents were able to get visas to England and the family emigrated there in 1939. They then immigrated to the US in 1940.

  8. Animal bone souvenir with an inscription acquired by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ullrich Remak collection

    Souvenir animal bone acquired by Ullrich Remak. It has an inscription “Souvenir from Birkenward Hostel, 14. II. 1942" where Ullrich stayed after being sent to Scotland from Germany on a Kinderstransport (Children's transport) in 1939.

  13. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  14. Magazine of Central Promenade Camp, Isle of man

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an example of the Central Promenade Paper, a weekly newspaper of the Central Promenade Camp in Douglas, Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). The newspaper is relating mainly to civilian internment camps on the Isle of Man, including a series of camp orders, letters and other papers from internees concerning conditions of internment and questioning the official categorisation of 'enemy aliens', instructions to internees who were about to be released and other miscellaneous papers can be seen. The ne...

  15. Youth Aliyah: Copy documents re the Hascharah Training Centre, Braunton, Devon

    Account of the Hascharah training centre at Braunton, Devon, consisting of typescript notes, transcripts of letters and copies of letters and other documents with Fred Dunston's annotations22 pages English 

  16. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The collection consists of a wallet and documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau before the war when she emigrated from Rhede, Germany, to Great Britain in 1938 and of photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Meyer and his extended family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  17. Fritz Blank letter

    Copy of a letter written by Fritz Blank, presumably in 1941, to a cousin, Martha. In the letter, Blank pleads for assistance to family members attempting to escape the Holocaust.

  18. Hay internment camp, New South Wales, Australia: copy camp magazine

    This collection appears to consist of two separate deposits, the provenance of which is not known. The first item is a copy of the Camp 7 Hay magazine Boomerang. The second is a woodcut image of the camp, dated 1940-1.

  19. Lothar Nelken: Diaries

    Diaries of Lothar Nelken

  20. Podhorcer family documents

    This collection of family documents consists of official papers such as copy birth, marriage and death certificates of an Austrian Jewish couple, who, it is assumed managed to escape to Great Britain just before the war (certificates declaring the couple's payment of any outstanding debts to the state are dated 1939).