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  1. Kartell Convent: Miscellaneous material

    Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material 

  2. Sonderfahndungsliste

    This is believed to be a typescript transcript of an Associated Press telex containing the names on the infamous Nazi Black List, a facsimile copy of which the Wiener Library holds. The list contains the names of all those whom the Nazis regarded as a potential threat to their plans and would therefore be arrested after the successful invasion of Great Britain. Details about the form and content of this edition are unknown (the depositor purchased it from a dealer)

  3. Wilhelm Pollak: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Wilhelm Pollak, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who was forced to emigrate in 1939 after his release from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.Personal papers including correspondence and diary entries (including summarised translations) concerning Pollak's imprisonment, arrangements for his emigration to England and his stay at various internment camps. Also included are photocopies of inventories of Phillip and Friederike Pollak's property in Vienna.

  4. George Jacob Rosney: Copy war time correspondence

    War time correspondence between George J Rosney, who enlisted with the British Liberation Army, and his relatives.Includes correspondence between George J Rosney stationed with 3rd Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery and his uncle Ludwig Mayer and cousin Hans Mayer in London (1944-1945) (1663/1-2); details of his search for his parents after the end of the war who were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp and diary of a visit to Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp where his parents were taken before being transported to Auschwitz (1945) (1663/3); correspondence by George Rosne...

  5. German navy: good conduct certificate

  6. Kristallnacht: List of synagogues destroyed and eyewitness testimonies

    985/1 consists of responses, most of which are dated November/ December 1939. In addition, there is a list of respondents. The project's results comprised a set of statistics on the fate of Germany's synagogues (985/2). The fate of the synagogues was still a subject of interest in 1959 as evidenced by a copy of a letter on the subject from C. C. Aronsfeld (985/3). 985/2 also contains a list dated 1960.

  7. G.F.J. Bergmann: Material re Jewish alpinists in Germany

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection documents an interest in mountain climbing in the 1920s and 1930s, in particular Jewish involvement in the sport. It includes a number of issues of alpinist journals with articles on the involvement of Jews in the sport by Bergmann. Also original correspondence on the subject.

  8. Muehlstein family collection

    This collection contains the family papers of the Muehlstein family, Jewish refugees from Vienna.Family papers including correspondence and supporting documents relating to restitution and pension claims and war-time Red Cross correspondence between parents and children. Also included is a photograph of Erika and Herbert Muehlstein before their emigration in 1937.In an audio interview the donor describes: being born in Vienna 2 years after her brother in 1932; how her father was beaten up and persecuted by the Nazis; how her brother, who was also badly affected followed his sister after a f...

  9. Kartell Conventus (Australia): Newsletter

    This newsletter from an Australian based Kartell Conventus was written by Karl Freeman in Sydney and contains a contribution from George Bergmann.Note: pages 4, 6 and 7 are missing

  10. Julius Essinger: letters of internment in France

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains Julius Essinger's correspondence (including translations) sent to his family whilst he was interned at Camp de Noe and Camp de Vernet d'Ariege in occupied France in 1942/1943. He was later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where he perished.Correspondence in which Essinger writes about the conditions in the camps and the scarcity of food; his gratitude for clothing, food and money sent by relatives; the fate of other inmates; family matters; his fear of deportation; and hopes to ...

  11. Esther Pauline Lloyd: camp diaries

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists of two surviving diaries of a British Jewish resident of Jersey, Channel Islands, whilst in internment camps first in Compiegne, France, and later Biberach, Germany. In addition to a daily account of life in the respective camps at Compiegne and Biberach, the diaries contain notes, addresses, recipes and draft letters.

  12. Fred Kormis Collection

    The papers in this collection consist mostly of photographs of the work of the sculptor and medallion maker, Fred Kormis. In addition there is some correspondence mostly relating to his work, including letters of thanks from Lord Mountbatten, Menachem Begin and members of the British War Cabinet during the Second World War, for whom Kormis sculpted medallions.

  13. Jewish Relief Unit: personnel files

    This collection consists of the personnel files of former members of the Jewish Relief Unit. This organization, which was based in Great Britain, provided support and assistance of all kinds to Jewish Displaced Persons in the aftermath of the war in Germany. Of particular interest are reports of conditions at individual camps.

  14. Cohn family papers

    This collection contains the business and personal papers of three generations of the Cohn family: Documents belonging to Joseph and Johanna Cohn's papers such as a publican licence, wills and title deeds. Business and personal papers of Heinrich (Heimann) Cohn, including contracts and ac-counts booklets relating to his companies, letters to his wife and mother, as well as a re-quest from his mother-in-law Hedwig Lesheim to allow Heinrich’s family to move to Berlin. Correspondence re restitution claims by Ella Cohn and Herbert Curtis.

  15. Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent: Records

    The documents in this collection offer an insight into the day to day lives of the inmates of the Kitchener Camp for refugees near Sandwich at Richborough, Kent in 1939. This collection comprises 4 separate deposits. The core material was deposited by Phineas May in October 1987 (Accession numbers 54096-54102) when he was Honorary Custodian of the Jewish Museum at Bloomsbury House. He also deposited the entertainments licence at 644/5 in May 1988. In addition Peter Mansbacher, a former inmate of the camp, deposited some material which includes a brief autobiographical sketch at 644/7 and me...

  16. The last tribe

  17. Arnold Rosé: copy documents re wartime musical activities

    The collection was deposited at the Wiener Library on the instruction of Richard Newman, co-author of Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz, Amadeus, USA, 2000. Alma Rosé was Arnold's daughter and became the conductor of the Auschwitz orchestra, where she died in 1944. Whilst the book obviously focuses on the experiences of Alma there is substantial biographical account of many members of the family including her father and his relation to the Mahler family.

  18. Heinz Süssmann personal papers

    Personal papers and correspondence of Heinz Süssmann

  19. Alfred Unger collction

  20. Lichtenstein and Rothschild Families Collection

    The material in this collection allows insights into life and persecution of members of two Jewish families from Austria and Germany. While the rather administrational documents refer primarily to the Lichtenstein family, the included photographs depict members and social life of the Rothschild family.