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  1. Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to ...

  2. Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period and regarding it

    In the Records Group there are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its founding. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries in ghettos, camps and hiding places and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping to before and during the Holocaust. The letters were sent to family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends and close friends in European countries and countries across the sea.In the collection there are letters written outside the boundaries of Europe and sent to Jews living in...

  3. Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    The Record Group includes correspondence with relief and welfare organizations in Britain and Germany during the Nazi period and after the war, reports regarding the activities of these organizations and reports from visits of Jewish leaders in Germany after the war, including much information concerning the situation of the Jews living in various places in the country.

  4. Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    In the Collection there are 97 files containing original documentation mainly regarding the following subjects: A. The history of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust;B. Efforts of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Hungary throguh which Hansi and Joel Brand conducted their activities, 1942-1944; G."Joel Brand: Die Geschichte eines Geschäfts"(Joel Brand, the Story of a Businessman), a radio play written by Heinar Kipphardt based on Joel Brand's life. C. The roles of various Jewish institutions which were active in the Free World whose goal it was to rescue the Jews of Hungary;D. Documen...

  5. 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).

  8. Bernhard Baer: A biographical account

    Biographical notes on Bernhard Baer. The notes provide details of his life, born into a German Jewish family in Berlin in 1905, and trace his experiences through the First World War and its aftermath, his escape from Nazi persecution to England in 1938 and his subsequent career as an expert in colour printing and a publisher of artists' graphic work.English Typescript 24 pagesThe account was written in note form shortly after the subject's death in 1983. It is divided into two parts: the first covering the years 1905-1948; and the second 1949-1983.

  9. Reports re Jewish refugees in Great Britain

  10. Regensburger family papers

    This collection of papers concerns the experiences of a German Jewish family which settled in Great Britain in 1939. Correspondence and personal papers of Resi Regensburg re naturalization, the possibility of voluntary work, restrictions for aliens and the remittance of money abroad

  11. A. M. Priestley: copy transcript correspondence

    This collection of copy correspondence documents the experiences of a German Jewish refugee, Frederick Sittner, whilst held in Dixon's Interment Camp, Paignton, Devon. These surviving transcripts are a fraction of a much larger collection. In addition a subsequent deposit from the same source (Accession No. NB 281 ) comprises a letter with further background material on Friedrich Sittner and his relationship with Mrs Priestley [The letter also mentions that the original correspondence was deposited at the Imperial War Museum in 1994]; a copy extract from Sittner's 'instructions' re the disp...

  12. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...

  13. Wolfgang and Werner Loewy: Correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

  14. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  15. The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain: Board minutes and papers

    Minutes and correspondence of the board of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, covering such subjects as restitution claims; social work; the newsletter: AJR Information; cultural activities; membership of the organisation 

  16. ‘The St. Louis Affair': list of passengers who found refuge in Great Britain

    This copy list of passengers on the infamous ship, the St. Louis, was probably generated from a database at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington.

  17. B'nai Brith Leo Baeck London Lodge: Members life histories

    Personal, mostly autobiographical accounts of former German and Austrian Jewish refugees, who subsequently became members of the Leo Baeck London Lodge. Also list of authors at 1288/56.This collection of memoirs provides a rich and varied account of the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees to Great Britain. They range in length from 1 page to almost book length.

  18. 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 

  19. Reverend Wernham: Correspondence

    Correspondence of Reverend Wernham including material relating to his activities assisting German and Austrian Jewish refugees

    This collection of correspondence of the Reverend Wernham contains letters, which document his assistance to German Jewish refugees just before and after the outbreak of war. Also included is material documenting German attitudes to the political situation immediately prior to the outbreak of war.

  20. Reunion of Kindertransport documents

    This collection is the second of two deposits made with the library concerning the reunion of the former children of the Kindertransports. It represents the bulk of the material in the possession of Bertha Leverton, founder and primary administrator of the Reunion of the Kindertransport (ROK) organization. The collection concerns her work planning reunions; writing and editing monthly newsletters; acting as a liaison to Kinder and those interested in the Kindertransport; conducting educational lectures on the history of the Kindertransport; and generally promoting its story. Most of these d...