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Country: United Kingdom
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Reichsfuehrer SS: Copy letter re Jewish Hospital, Munich

    Copy letter from Reichsführer SS, Himmler, to Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, re the removal of patients from the Jewish hospital, Munich to Terezin, as the premises are required for a school for nurses and midwives from LebensbornGerman 

  2. Bacmann: Copy deportation form

    Copy deportation form including order to confiscate possessions of Mr Bacmann, issued by Reichsministerium der besetzen Ostgebiete. 

  3. Office of Reichsführer SS: Correspondence and papers

    This collection of correspondence mostly emanating from the office of Reichsführer SS deals in the main with administrative matters. It includes 2 original letters from Reichsführer SS, Himmler (1144/1/14; -/23). It also includes an incomplete set of an in-house information sheet providing instructions to SS members on a variety of matters such as dress protocol for visits to concentration camps by SS members (1144/2/4); qualification for wearing the 'Death's Head' ring of the SS (1144/2/2); and orders forbidding membership of clubs deemed inappropriate.

  4. David Spector: Miscellaneous papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This miscellaneous collection of mostly copy papers and news cuttings was deposited by David Spector in a number of separate deposits, the details of some of which have been recorded. They consist mainly of papers relating to the activities of British Fascists before during and after WWI

  5. Danish workers during the Nazi era: Various papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Danish workers during the Nazi era: Various papers

  8. Copy eyewitness reports regarding the November Pogrom

    These copy reports are apparently strays from a full collection of 356 reports (WL Document Collection 1375) gathered in the weeks and months following the November Pogrom of 1938 by the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam. They bear a similar reference number to the rest of the reports in this collection, pre-fixed by the letter 'B'. These reports have been numbered separately (B40, B41, B42) and are in relation to the destruction of synagogues in Germany during the November Pogrom. 

  9. NSDAP Auslandorganisation: newsletter extracts

    This collection consists primarily of typescript extracts from the official organ of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation. It appears that the extracts were compiled contemporaneously, possibly by the JCIO. The date of the last extract, January 1936, gives some indication as to the date of completion. The choice of extracts is explained in a footnote to a summary of the extracts (840/2) which states that only those articles were chosen which contained particularly interesting items of news and announcements. The subjects include matters of finance, economics, schools and the welfare of German wom...

  10. Copy antsemitic material

    This copy anti-Semitic material includes a letter from Jane Birdwood as director of Choice magazine; and various articles on Iraq, Maastricht, and the so called Jewish conspiracy.

  11. Czech and Czech Jewish immigrants in Great Britain: various documents

    Material which documents some of the activities of organisations in Great Britain which were involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era.

  12. Oskar Neumann collection

    Collection of original letters with English translations from Oskar Neumann in Tombelone (?) sent to family in Great Britain. Mention is made of relatives in France and England.

  13. Ernst Ludwig Saunders collection

  15. 'The Cedar Boys', Waddesdon collection

    This collection contains mostly copy papers and photographs pertaining to the Steinhardt family, Waddesdon Manor and the Flersheim-Sichel-Stiftung.Audio interview with the donor, Helga Brown, who describes how she and her family lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s; that her father ran the Jewish orphanage school, Philanthropin, having been forced out of his teaching post at a state school; how her sister persuaded the UK branch of the Rothschild banking family to support and fund the relocation of the boys to Waddesdon Hall, Buckinghamshire; how Julian Lyton played a key role in the pro...

  16. Marie Rosenberg: documents re restitution claim

    Papers which document a restitution claim by Marie Rosenberg.

  17. Miscellaneous material

    Folder of miscellaneous material in an apparently original folder of the Reichsfilmkammer including material re the funeral service for the painter Leo Lesser Ury; open letter from Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, President of the Amateur Atheletic Union of America to the president of he organising committee for the 1936 Olympics; correspondence re the newspaper, der Judenkenner; newspaper cuttings on a variety of subjects and more

  18. List of SS men in Auschwitz

    Typescript list of former SS men at Auschwitz given by Max Bryskier and Lucian Den (presumably former inmates) at Canobbio-Lugano, Castello die Trevano. The list of five names gives brief details of the SS men's crimes.German 1 page 

  19. Wehrmacht: Copy instructions re management of troops

    Copy translation of ‘Special issue of notes for the officer corps' issued by the High Command of the Wehrmacht under the following headings ‘the morale of troops must be raised'; ‘false interpretation of the word surrender'; ‘it is urgently necessary to make clear to the troops the exact sense of this conception on the part of the general'; ‘when and why officers must save themselves'; ‘instructions for the handling of soldiers' GPS' 

  20. Cahn family: copy correspondence