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  1. Heinrich Pollatschek collection

    Copy family correspondence including postcards from Heinrich Pollatschek in Buchenwald to his wife, Zdenka, between August 1938 and March 1939; also letters and postcards from Heinrich and Zdenka Pollatschek from Kielce ghetto, Poland to family in Vienna and London. The correspondence describes the miserable conditions which they endured including food scarcity and cramped accommodation. Heinrich is described as working as an orderly at the office of the Jewish Council of Elders. His wife suffered from high blood pressure and severe rheumatism; also includes English summaries of some of the...

  2. Derek Gordon Cole Collection

    The papers in this collection document the activities of Lieutenant Cole as a guard in a POW camp in Rimini, Italy, in 1946 where elements of the 14th Waffen-SS Galizien Division were held captive; and later in Palestine where he was involved in operations to prevent illegal Jewish immigration and anti-terrorist operations.

  3. Documents on occupied Norway

    German documents on occupied Normandy, above all addressing propaganda and education.

  4. Karl Loewenstein collection

    This collection consists of some personal papers of Karl Loewenstein, controversial former head of the security apparatus at Theresienstadt. The papers include an unpublished account of his time in Theresienstadt; sundry related documents and correspondence from and about his time in Theresienstadt. There are apparently two copies of the report entitled Aus der Hölle Minsk in das Paradies Theresienstadt. One deposited here at the Wiener Library in 1956 via HG Adler, also former inmate of Theresienstadt, and author of the still definitive history of the ghetto. The other is deposited with th...

  5. Ralph Liebman papers

    This collection comprises a hard copy word-processed history of the family by Ralph Liebman.Also included in Catalogued digital collections are scans of photographs of family members, scans of war-time letters from Harry in the USA to Ralph in England, last letter from mother in Gurs to Ralph

  6. Julius Kunig: POW Diary

    Julius Kunig: POW diary and enclosures

  7. Hans Globke: deposition concerning Jewish name changes in the Third Reich

    This is an original signed statement by Hans Globke, formerly chief adviser to Konrad Adenauer and earlier, official commentator on the Nuremberg Racial Laws. The statement deals with the provision of names denoting the Jewish origins of German citizens. The document is typescript with corrections apparently initialled, signed and dated by Globke.

  8. Henry Hellmann and Eva Hellmann: personal papers

    Personal papers Including political articles and papers by Henry Hellmann; Hellmann's reminiscences of his parents, Michael and Anna Jacubowicz, and various autobiographical accounts of Henry and  Eva Hellmann; correspondence with family and friends; marriage and death certificates; school reports; journalists membership and press cards; photographs; as well as obituaries and condolences relating to Eva and Henry Hellmann.

  9. Central British Fund: Reports and other papers re orphans

    These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

  10. Kartell Convent: Miscellaneous material

    Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material 

  11. 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)

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. German navy: good conduct certificate

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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

  19. 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 ...

  20. 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.