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  1. 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.

  2. Chances of surviving a German concentration camp: report

    This copy report on Jewish resistance and survival in concentration camps poses a counter argument to Bruno Bettleheim's contention that camp experience created an infantile passive response, suggesting instead that inmates developed a variety of ways of resistance. This report was written in his capacity as an employee of the Dutch Sociologisch Instituut and is essentially a programme for research replete with rationale and methodology, also including a pro forma letter to authors of eyewitness testimonies seeking permission to use their accounts. Several parts of this text subsequently ap...

  3. Stiftung Hilfswerk 20. Juli 1944: Various papers

    This collection contains circular letters and papers celebrating the 75th birthday of Emil Henk; also a death notice for the same

  4. Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence

    Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence to the donor's aunt, Greta, in August 1942 just prior to deportation to Terezin; includes transcriptions, translations and a copy photograph

  5. George Deutsch: family papers

    This collection contains a set of Red Cross letters between members of the Deutsch family in London and Vienna respectively from 1940 to 1943. Also included is an undated postcard.

  6. Glossary of terms related to the Dresdner Bank with short commentary

    Glossary of terms related to the Dresdner Bank with short commentary 

  7. Book: 'Juden in Freiburg im Breisgau' with enclosures

    This book Juden in Freiburg im Breisgau was published in Trier by Gebrüder Maas & Companie, 1890

  8. Dresel family papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Dresel family including original documents, originals and translated correspondence, biographical material

  9. Jewish war orphans Holland: copy official documents

    This collection consists of case papers relating to the fate of Dutch Jewish foster children whose parents died during the Holocaust. Eleven cases are represented here, out of a total of 1363.

  10. Control Office for Germany and Austria: Copy letter to the members of the Ps/W Division

    Letter addressed to members of the Ps/W Divison, C.O.G.A. and lecturers re visits to POW campsEnglish 

  11. SA copy newsletter to former comrades

  12. Paul Plaut family papers

  13. Reports on South America as a haven for refugees from Nazi Germany

    This collection of reports focuses on South America as a haven for German Jewish emigration. According to the editor's introduction they were published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc. with a view to being published in various (unspecified) newspapers. This particular edition was presumably written for the American market, since the reports are in English and are printed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which was, by then, based in New York.The reports cover Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and discuss the climate, geography, demographics and politics of each country. The first 3 reports...

  14. Adolf Wald: Bar Mitzwah album

    The album contains mostly letters, cards and telegrams congratulating the subject on reaching his Bar Mitzwah

  16. Hugo and Gretel Klein: copy correspondence

    This collection comprises the literal translation of letters written in old German Gothic script by the parents of Kay Fyne and her brothers and sister (now living in the U.S.). Kay's brother-in-law, Kurt Klein, who lives in Seattle, Washington, managed to decypher a lot of the script, which Kay has used to help in her own interpretation of how she felt her parents would wish to express themselves. She has, however, tried to keep as near as possible to the actual written style.A lot of the references and names in the letters refer to members of both her father's and mother's families and th...

  17. Steinhardt family papers

    Contains mostly documents related to the family's immigration to UK in 1939

  18. Hebrew Committee of National Liberation: Copy letter re settlement in Palestine

    Copy letter from Hillel Kook aka Peter Bergson, chairman of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, to Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in which he explains in some detail his ideas for the settlement of Palestine.English 23 pages 

  19. Hilde Badrian: School identity card

    The Ausweis-Karte is issued by the art school “Schule Reimann Berlin” for Miss Hilde Badrian for the Arts and Applied Arts Department. The school regulations are printed on the backside of the card. German 

  20. Peter Hulsen collection

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to listen to the audio interview with the donorRecipe book and other papers including audio interview of Peter Hulsen who describes being born in Breslau, into a wealthy, secular Jewish household; coming to Great Britain on the last Kindertransport; staying in an orphanage in Brighton for 5 years; an interview with Anna Essinger and subsequent stay of 9 months at Bunce Court School; a career in retail including 30 years at Marks and Spencer; survival of his father who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials and also at Bletchl...