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  1. World Jewish Congress: minutes of meetings

    This collection includes copies of minutes of meetings of the executive and administrative committees of the World Jewish Congress, held in Paris and Vienna, in addition to other papers.

  2. Intelligence reports re Nazi atrocities

    This collection comprises 3 separate deposits, of which the provenance of only 2 can be identified. 809/1 was deposited by R D Gray in November 1988 along with a number of books and pamphlets, which have been catalogued separately as part of the Wiener Library book and pamphlet collections. The material in this deposit relates mainly to the interrogation of German prisoners of war. It appears that the depositor (a retired academic at the time of deposit) was a member of an interrogation team during the war: Some original pencil notes on the interrogation of prisoners of war in the summer of...

  6. Victor Zorza: Press cuttings and news copy

  7. 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 The papers include an unpublished account of his time in Theresienstadt; sundry related documents and correspondence from and about his time in Theresienstadt.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...

  8. Copy expert report report re the duty of obedience of SS leaders

    This expert report from Dr. Hans-Günther Seraphim, lecturer of Göttingen University, deals with the implications of refusal by SS officers to comply with orders to execute those regarded as enemies of the state

  9. Papers re Jewish family research

    Material regarding Jewish family history and issues relating to non-aryan nobility.

  10. Edith Nussbaum: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers includes copy birth certificates, police registration documents, Jewish passport, British naturalisation certificate and restitution papers

  11. Rosa Glueck: Copy Theresienstadt id card

    Copy identity card issued by jüdisches Siedlungsgebiet Theresienstadt for Rosa Glueck, born Leipzig 1878, countersigned by Leo Baeck as Judenältester 

  12. Miscellaneous material

    Miscellaneous material

  13. Lilly Crewe: Cook book

  14. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  15. German revisionist leaflet

    Advertisement for German revisionist publications, written by Heinz Roth. Denies the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

  16. Wilfrid Israel: copy correspondence

    The material in this collection comprises copies of correspondence to and from Wilfrid Israel, the originals of which are held in archives in the UK, the USA and Israel. The letters were used by Naomi Shepherd in the research on her book Wilfrid Israel: German Jewry’s Secret Ambassador. There follows Naomi Shepherd’s introduction to the collection.Wilfrid Israel was a prolific letter writer and this collection indicates the breadth of his interests and activities including pacifism and internationalism during the first two decades of the 20th century; Zionism- in which he was a follower of ...

  19. Return of displaced persons at Hamburger Ring Displaced Persons Camp

    Return of displaced persons at Hamburger Ring Displaced Persons CampIt seems to have been annotated by the former commandant of the camp who notes that not all of the inmates are ‘real DPs', having arrived there well before the end of the war.

  20. Yom Hashoah 2008