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  1. Reports and correspondence re Gurs and other French concentration camps

    These papers offer some insight into conditions in French internment camps during the 1940s, in particular in Gurs. Most of the reports and correspondence are contemporary copies or transcriptions.

  2. B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck (London) Lodges: archives

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentComprising documents, including bound reports, volumes, and index cards as well as some photographs and single objects, the collection includes the organisational papers of the Leo Baeck (London) Lodges and their affiliated bodies. Spanning more than seven decades, the material covers the complete period of the Lodges’ existence. The preserved papers appear, however, to be incomplete and only part of an originally larger bulk of material.The documents provide an overview of the organisational structures of the Leo Ba...

  3. Gordon family papers

    The collection consists of official and private documents belonging to the members of the Gordon, Auerbach, Heimann and Buchan families, including their correspondence and photographs. The letters between Alfred and Lore Gordon, most of which were written between June 1938 and January 1946, represent about two fifths of the entire collection. In addition there is a large body of correspondence between Lore and her parents in Germany, including some letters and Red Cross telegrams sent during the war.

  4. Buchwald family: papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Buchwald family, Jewish refugees from Bratislava who emigrated in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions. Family papers including correspondence with Violet Bonham Carter regarding sponsorship for Villiam to enable him to leave Bratislava (1938-1939); Villiam’s school reports from schools in Bratislava and Salford grammar school; Katerina Buchwald's National Health and Pensions Insurance Contributions Card (1939); testimonials for Max and Irma Freud and Mr S Neurath; post-war correspondence with family (Katerina’s sister Magda) and friends, and ...

  5. Berta Einstein: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Jewish refugee Berta Einstein who emigrated to London in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War.Personal papers Including birth certificate, qualifications, work references, letter of recommendation by the Jewish Religious Committee of Memmingen, correspondence with the Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees regarding her application for work in England, list of items taken to England, medical certificate as well as photographs and correspondence with family and friends.

  6. German POWs: congratulatory and thank you letters

    German POWs: congratulatory letters to Adolf Hitler and thank you letter to the German Red Cross, with cover letter from the German Foreign Office in Berlin

  7. Paul Hollander: personal papers

    This collection of copy papers contains material which documents the activities of Paul Hollander, a German Jewish refugee in France who joined the French Foreign Legion at the beginning of World War II and was subsequently sent to a forced labour camp in North Africa. Of particular interest in this collection are reports on conditions in the labour camps of Colomb Behar, Kenadsa (Algeria) and Bour-Arfa (French Morocco) (963/11) and the prison camp of Hadjerat m'Guil (963/7)At 963/19 is a copy letter from Dr. C. F. J. Bergmann regarding the possibility of compensation payments from the Fren...

  9. Ronald Roberts collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises the personal papers of Ronnie Roberts (1921-2001), a mixed race Barbadian/German from Mainz who was imprisoned at various civilian internment and labour camps in Germany during the Second World War. After being subjected to racism in Nazi Germany he emigrated to England in 1938/1939 where he failed to make a life for himself. He returned to Germany and after the outbreak of the war was imprisoned at internment camps due to his British subject status (his father was of British nationali...

  10. High court for the British zone in Cologne: Copy appeal judgement against Petersen et al

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This authenticated copy of an appeal court judgement concerns the case of former ship captain, Rudolf Jasper Petersen, and 6 colleagues who are accused of summarily executing a number of the ship's crew for desertion, in the night of 5-6 May 1945. The original verdicts were quashed for all but 2 of the defendants. In addition there is an apparently unrelated copy expert opinion, dated 1946, on the treatment of 'denouncers'

  11. School museum of Kalynivske village

    There were up to three hundred documents by 2022. The collection included memoirs of the village's residents - concentration camp inmates, and diaries about the Holocaust (about 10 original diaries that did not survive the occupation ща 2022). Nothing from this part of the collection concerning the Jewish history of the village survived the Russian occupation in 2022. Citation: “There were records of testimonies, such as Natasha Sereda's, how she was in 1944, at the beginning of the year the Germans came, gathered them all here, how they were expelled. She, to her credit, took a student's n...

  12. School Museum on the basis of the branch Bobrovokutskyi institution of general secondary education of I-II degrees - preschool educational institution of Kalynivske core institution of general secondary education of I-III degrees

    About 100 original photographs from the early to late 20th century with textual accompaniment. Of those photos, 4 are of local Jewish schoolchildren before World War II, and 18 photos depict local Holocaust victims. 10 self-made museum stands.

  13. Izbicki-Balzam family. Collection

    This collection contains : a pre-war photo of Jankiel (Jakob) and Cywya Izbicki-Balzam, ca. 1930 ; a postcard in Yiddish and German, written by Abram Przedborski on behalf of his wife Hanna Balzam and his sister-in-law Cywya Balzam in Dampremy, Belgium, to their parents in Krzepice, Poland, regarding money Hanna and Cywja sent over to help, 1942 ; a parcel request form filled out by Jankiel (Jakob) Izbicki while being held at the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks), addressed to Marie Bertechants in Dampremy, 1942.

  14. Paula Weinrib-Shayevitz. Collection

    This collection contains: an identity card photograph of Joseph Seiderman, ca. 1935 ; an identity card photograph of David Fajerstejn, ca. 1938 ; a photograph of siblings David and Abraham Icek Fajerstejn walking down a street, 1942.

  15. Pilcer-Jama family. Collection

    This collection contains : a pre-war portrait of the deported Hena Jama and a pre-war portrait of her deported son Jules Pilzer (also Pilcer).

  16. I. Ralston. Collection

    This collection contains : a letter from the Belgian Red Cross to Miss D. De Grave and Misses De Doncker regarding the whereabouts of Henri Gosset who had been sent away from the assembly camp in Drancy, France, to an unknown destination, 1942 ; a photocopy of a certificate allowing Frajda Krywin to deliver a parcel of food to her brother Hersz Krywin, held in Saint-Gilles prison, 1942 ; a post-war Political Prisoner’s Beneficiary Status Card issued to Gela (Géla) Calka, 1958.

  17. Concentration camp uniform of a political prisoner. Collection

    This collection contains : uniform trousers in blue and white striped canvas, fastened with mismatched buttons and a waistband lined with white canvas, worn in an unidentified concentration camp by an unidentified political prisoner ; grey tweed suit jacket, closed with a button and safety pin (other buttons missing, sleeve buttons present), number 867291 inscribed on a strip of white cloth pinned to the left pocket, worn in an unidentified concentration camp by an unidentified political prisoner.

  18. Photos of railway cars and wagons. Collection

    This collection contains : a pre-war photo of a third-class passenger wagon of the NMBS-SNCB, of the same type used for the deportations of Jews from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau from 4 August 1942 until 15 January 1943 (transports I to XIX) ; two post-war photos of a NMBS-SNCB freight car of the same type used for the deportations of Jews from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau from 19 April 1943 until 31 July 1944 (transport XX to transport XXVI).

  19. Daniels-Ulmer family. Collection

    This collection consists of five handwritten letters and parcel requests sent by Max Daniels and Hedwig Ulmer during their internment at the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen, Belgium, between December 1942 and January 1943. The documents primarily address urgent pleas for assistance with food, clothing, and medical supplies. The letters provide insight into their deteriorating living conditions and reveal their dependence on external support to survive. Specific requests include items such as black tea for pain relief, soap, warm clothing, preserved food, games for relaxation, and medical suppli...

  20. Goldberg-Kaufman family. Collection

    This collection contains : a wartime portrait of Chana Laja Kaufman ; a wartime portrait of Aron Lejzer Goldberg ; a wartime photo of Chana Laja Kaufman and her two children, Abraham and Liliane (Lily) Goldberg ; a wartime photo of siblings Abraham and Lilane (Lily) Goldberg.