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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Book

    1. Fred Lindheim family collection

    Picture book, Die Struwwel Liesse, taken along 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.

  2. Asch Family Papers

    1. Nestor Winters collection

    Contains two letters from the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, informing Mrs. C. Asch of London that members of the Asch family have been liberated in Theresienstadt and have returned to Berlin, August-September 1945.

  8. Correspondence of the German Jewish Aid Committee

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains material of a correspondence between the German Jewish Aid Committee in London and couple of Refugee organizations, like the Jewish Refugee Committee/ Trainee department in Leeds, the British Committee for Refugees from Czecho-Slovakia and the York Refugee Committee. The correspondence is regarding visa and trainee possibilities for Jews who want to escape Germany or other occupied countries and stay in Great Britain. All of the organizations tried to save as many Jews as possible by the use of trainee visa for Great Britain. Unfortunately Jews who applied need to be in a ...

  15. Selected Records from the Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, United States of America: General Correspondence (FO 115)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of the United States of America relating to Jews, the sale in Argentina of exit permits for Jews in Nazi Germany, the evacuation of Jewish refugees from occupied Europe in 1944, and illegal immigration.

  16. Kartel Convent: Various papers

    This collection contains circulars from the KC in Great Britain and the American Jewish KC Fraternity, Inc.

  19. UNRRA work in Europe

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Brief shots of fires used by Britain as defense against invasion in 1940. Work of UNRRA in Europe: camp in Germany for refugees and displaced persons; food supplies sent to Austria.

  20. Reunion of the Kindertransportees: correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence from former German Jewish refugees, who came to Great Britain on the Kindertransporte, and who attended the reunion of former Kindertransportees, organised by Bertha Leverton in 1989