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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 

  5. Jewish Board of Deputies' Aliens Committee: minutes and reports

    The material sheds light on the role of the Aliens Committee of the Board of Deputies with respect to the treatment of aliens in Britain in the early 1930s.

  6. Reports re Jewish refugees in Great Britain

  7. 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

  8. Lothar Nelken: Diaries

    Diaries of Lothar Nelken

  13. Oskar Neumann collection

    Collection of original letters with English translations from Oskar Neumann in Tombelone (?) sent to family in Great Britain. Mention is made of relatives in France and England.

  14. 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.

  20. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.