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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Correspondence with Ainsztein, Reuben

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents Ainsztein’s long-term freelance work for The Wiener Library, primarily by contributing numerous pieces - articles, reviews, summaries - to its Bulletin. Moreover, work related fees are subject of some letters.

  2. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Belgium: General Correspondence (FO 123)

    Contains general correspondence from the Embassy and Consulates of Belgium relating to the possibility of Jewish refugees in Vichy France to be admitted to the Belgian Congo, 1942.

  3. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe papers

    1. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany.

  4. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews In the file: - Correspondence with people and institutions in the United States and Great Britain, the Red Cross and others regarding Jewish refugees and rescuing Jews.

  5. Max Sanders: personal papers

    This collection consists of mostly original personal papers of Max Sander, a German Jew, who apparently came to Great Britain in 1939 and, according to an unidentified note died, in London in 1979. Little more is known about the subject beyond the following few details gleaned from the papers themselves.

  6. Correspondence with Anglo-German Educational Reconstruction (G.E.R.)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence concerning the dissolution of G. E. R. and the options of providing The Wiener Library with parts of the remaining archival material.

  7. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944 Also in the file: Lists of names of refugees some of whom are in camps and some of whom have emigrated including the country to which they emigrated.

  8. Reuben family papers

    Contains correspondence and forms related to Mrs. E. Reubens, of Cardiff, Wales, and her efforts to assist Jewish displaced persons at the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp, 1945-1946. Includes pre-war correspondence regarding her involvement in Jewish organizations in Britain that sought to assist German-Jewish refugees, dated 1933-1938.

  9. 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.

  10. David Cheney: papers relating to the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain

    This collection consists of David Cheyney's papers relating to his work as secretary of the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain.

  11. 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.

  12. Rebeka Rosenberg collection

    This is a supplement to the collective history of the Blanknstein family compiled by Sisa Svidovsky. It comprises printed translations of letters and postcards received by Rebeka (Rita) Rosenberg née Blankstein from her relatives and friends between 1939 and 1942. The letters describe family life in occupied Poland, neutral Switzerland, Great Britain at war, USA and Palestine.

  13. Hand towel

    Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

  15. Henni Lesley: copy family documents

    Little is known about the subject of this collection, save that which can be gleaned from the papers themselves. It appears that Henni Lesley, formerly Lewin, formerly a Jewish resident of Berlin, was at one time imprisoned at Lichtenburg Concentration Camp (1541/1); that she probably emigrated to Great Britain shortly after her release(circa 1938/9); and that her parents were deported East in March 1943, never to be seen again (1541/4).

  16. Czech and Czech Jewish immigrants in Great Britain: various documents

    Material which documents some of the activities of organisations in Great Britain which were involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era.

  18. Evacuees, Farm Settlers, Other A-K

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. UJRA Refugee Case Files

    Includes Jewish mothers and children evacuated from Britain to Canada for the duration of the war. Currency regulations prevented transfer of funds from England, necessitating UJRA financial assistance in form of loans. The Council for Overseas Children was specifically charged with responsibility for this group. Also contains cases concerning relief to newly settled refugee farmers from Sudetanland, the latter having been initially sponsored by the Farm and Establishment Committee of what was the newly-formed Canadian Jewish Committee for refugees. Refugees from Japan and refugees in trans...

  19. 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.

  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).