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  1. Brotherhood

  2. Jack Scott collection

    The collection consists of the personal and family paper of Jakob Schloss/ Jack Scott, including wartime documentation of his own war service and his father’s deportation from France, and later documentation of memorials and tributes to Baruch Schloss and Jack’s commando. It also includes photographs of family members and memorial sites.

  3. Geoffrey Marx collection

    The collection consists of material belonging to the Marx and Eversfield families, the vast majority from Marika Szücs/ Lӧw-Beer/ Eversfield/ Rotter. Includes a large amount of wartime and post-war correspondence between England and Hungary (including letter informing Marika of her mother’s death at Auschwitz), personal and family papers documenting immigration, and collection of Marika’s art, fashion and advertising work.

  4. Correggio Jewish community: Archives

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  5. Olga Warburg collection

    The collection comprises extensive childhood memoirs written by Olga Lachmann née Warburg during her time in Amsterdam, as well as other family papers including business correspondence of her father regarding ‘the Jewish question’, and records of Olga’s family.

  6. Jervis Royalton Roe collection

    Jervis Royalton Roe: personal account of political events in Austria, 1938; two diaries documenting his war-time experiences

  7. CD 2

  8. Jeremiah Heinemann: papers

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  9. Gabriele Weil collection

    This collection includes family papers of the Weil family and their relatives, such as birth, death and marriage certificates, papers detailing Kurt Weil and his family’s attempts to emigrate from Germany, family trees, family photographs, and medals from the First World War. It also includes extensive family correspondence: between different branches of the family after they immigrated, between Kurt and his sister Dr Else Weil, and between Kurt and his family while he was interned in Onchan Camp. There is also documentation of Dr Else Weil’s life, and later correspondence between Gabriele ...

  10. Aleksander Dyzenhaus collection

  11. Janina Szereszewska collection

    This collection contains identity documents, correspondence, affidavits and restitution claim material

  13. CD 1

  15. John Glazer collection

  16. Allenstein Jewish community: Archives

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  17. Leslie Brent collection

    The collection consists of wartime correspondence between Lothar Baruch/ Leslie Brent and his family and other individuals in Germany; both short Red Cross messages and longer letters.

  18. Fritz Bötel collection

  19. Hilda Sargent collection

    The papers comprise the following: Two copies of her typed and edited transcrips “Extracts of Letters from an Austrian Law Student 1932-1936) - 40 pages. Stedronsky was imprisoned for protesting and part of the letters are his prison diary. Photograph of Reichs-party day in Nuremberg Sep 1937 with Stedronsky in 10th row of marching Austrian Legionnaires Photograph of Stedronsky in ’storm trooper’ uniform with two comrades dated Sep 1937 3 Holiday photographs Jul 1935 annotated. Original letters (84 pages mostly written both sides) in English and Pitman shorthand - plus Hilda Sargent's writt...

  20. Ken Ambrose collection

    This collection documents the life of Ken Ambrose and his family from the 19th century until the modern era. Papers include original documents and certificates pertaining to several members of his family; correspondence both official and family-related, some describing fate of friends and family during the Holocaust and also attempts to emigrate by others. Also included are a number of photographs and objects.