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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. General Pinckvoss et al: Case file re prosecution

    This microfilmed file of correspondence concerns accusations of a relatively minor nature made against General Pinckvoss, Inspekteur des Wehrersatzbezirks, Kassel, and others.

  2. Ruth Ibbitson (née Peschel) collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ruth Peschel, a Jewish girl from Breslau who emigrated on a Kindertransport to the UK in 1939.These comprise correspondence with her family including a letter from her brother in Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as documents, including: work reference, police clearance certificate, tax clearance certificate, police notice of departure, identity card for young persons admitted to the UK under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children and short life histories. There are digital copies of her passport and steamship...

  3. Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Agathe Barthel's property

    Copy order re the confiscation of all Agathe Barthel's property in accordance with laws ordaining the removal of the property of communists and enemies of the state.German 

  4. Papers regarding Erich Wolfsfeld

    This collection consists of papers relating to German Jewish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, Erich Wolfsfeld.Papers Including mainly press cuttings regarding his exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, drawings, photographs and correspondence from Franka Minden. Also includes a short autobiography.

  5. Ernst Geiduschek: Memoir and other papers

    Original typescript account of arrest in Vienna and incarceration in Dachau concentration camp in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht and other related papers

  6. Gerhart Riegner : Correspondence

    Collection of letters and postcards found within the pages of books from the Gerhart Riegner library, which was bequeathed to the Wiener Library in 2002.

  7. 'Hidden Children-final script'

    Text entitled 'Hidden Children Final Script' 

  8. German POWs: congratulatory letters

    German POWs: congratulatory letters to Adolf Hitler 

  9. Kramer, Salinger and Goldschmidt families: genealogical notes

    This collection consists primarily of notes on the history of 3 German Jewish families. Also included is a photograph of a Dutch cartoon.

  10. Hilde Sanderson: family papers

    This collection of papers documents in part the lives of a German Jewish family, persecuted by the Nazis, and the processes involved in the subsequent claim for restitution from the German government. The following is a list of the family members whose names occur in the collections.\ Stanley Tash (Sally Tachauer), Hilde Sanderson (née Tachauer) and Gisela (Ella) Feuchtwanger (previously Plaut, née Tachauer) are all siblings.\ Hedwig, Rosa and Alfred Seelig are all siblings, the aunts and uncle of the above.\ Ilse Seelig, (later Warner) was a cousin of Regina Tachauer (née Tachauer), Stanly...

  11. Israel Supreme Court: Ruling re Jewish identity

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Israel Supreme Court judgement against Oswald Rufeisen re application to be considered a Jew. 

  12. Jewish Youth Federation, Holland: Copy report of 22nd AGM

    Report on the 22nd AGM of the Joodsche Jeugd Federatie (Jewish Youth Federation) 

  13. Judaism and Communism in Russia: various papers

  14. Josef Rosenbaum collection

    Correspondence and identity documents

  15. Jewish anti-defamation work in pre-Hitler Germany

    Copy report on anti-defamation work in pre-Hitler Germany under the following sub-headings: the Jews; Labor; Antisemitic propaganda among labor; Defense; ConclusionsEnglish 31 pages 

  16. Letter fragment regarding Deutsche Freikörperkultur

    Letter fragment regarding Deutsche Freikörperkultur.

  17. Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin: copy letter to Vatican

    Copy response by the Auswaertige Amt to the Vatican commenting on the status of the relationship between the German Reich and the Vatican 

  18. Franz Szell: correspondence re Alfred Rosenberg

    The letter seeks to demonstrate the racially mixed background of one of the Nazis most virulent exponents of Nazi racial ideology. The collection also includes copies (in several languages) of a letter addressed to Goering, Göbbels and von Neurath, amongst others, containing essentially the same information as in the open letter (936/2). The last letter is addressed to the Justice Minister, Trygre Lie, Oslo, and in addition to the information contained in the above, contains details of the author's own experiences.

  20. Eliezer Kaplan: Correspondence re Aliyah

    The correspondence consists of copy outgoing letters either authored by or forwarded to Eliezer Kaplan, and relates to the activities of Keren Hayesod (The Palestine Foundation Fund), in particular the settlement project (?) Mifal Bizaron. The letters bear a London address and a PO box in Jerusalem