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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. National Front: leaflet opposed to immigration of Hong Kong residents

    This leaflet produced by the National front was designed to instil fear into British people of a large influx of Hong Kong residents in the wake of the handover the territories by the British government to the Chinese government.

  2. Report on the extermination of the Jews in Europe - not dated

    Copy report on the Nazi extermination camps. The facts within the report are allegedly based upon the testimonies of both Jews who witnessed mass killings and SS personnel who were guards at the camp.

  3. Martin Berger collection

    The papers reflect his interests in and membership of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, The Trade Union Centre for German Workers in Great Britain and the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain.

  4. Eric Colebeck stamp collection

    A collection of stamps commemorating the Holocaust arranged into 10 volumes covering the following subjects: resistance and anti-nazi fighters who showed outstanding courage; events such as the massacre at Lidice; martyred cities; concentration camps; special memorials and museums. All of the material is accompanied by detailed descriptions.

  5. Copy documents re 1936 Olympics

    Copy documents concerning preparations for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

  6. Ludwig Bieder: correspondence and papers

    This collection documents the lives of members of an Austrian Jewish family whose destinies were forever changed by the rise of Nazism. The papers date from immediately after the Anschluss until the 1950s, by which time the surviving members had settled in their newly adopted countries. The largest group of letters date from 1938-1939, after Ludwig Bieder left Austria for Switzerland and before he departed for New Zealand. The principal subjects are his desperate attempts to extricate his parents from Vienna to a safe haven; his efforts to obtain a visa for himself; and his love affair with...

  7. Hermann Claudius: copy official papers

    This collection consists of copy official documents mostly declarations of income for the Reichsschriftumskammer of Hermann Claudius, poet and author.

  9. Norbert Zils: letter re Marianne Isaac

    This copy letter was given to the depositor by the recipient, Ruth Wolf. Ruth Wolf had earlier responded to a letter to a Birmingham newspaper from the same author, requesting information on the whereabouts of Marianne Isaac. It appears that the author, Norbert Zils, a history teacher from a small town in (West) Germany, was trying to put together an exhibition on the fate of the town's Jews. He was particularly concerned that the local people do not succeed in repressing knowledge of events which took place during the nazi era.

  10. Ilse Kaiser: correspondence re Erich Kaiser

    The copy correspondence in this collection between Ilse Kaiser and the publishers K. G. Saur Verlag concerns the inclusion of a biographical entry for Erich Kaiser, Ilse's brother, a German emigré journalist.

  11. Opening ceremony for synagogue in Mannheim

    Detailed description of the speeches and opening ceremony for the new Synagogue in MannheimPictures of the head of the Jewish community Mannheim Fritz Mayer, mayor of Mannheim Dr. Reschke, Rabbi Dr. Bloch, head of Jewish community Baden Otto Nachmann, prelate Hermann Maas, Heidelberg and pictures of the ceremony and audience 

  12. Copy article re Terezin

    Copy article entitled Das ‘Musterghetto' Theresienstadt in which the author provides some historical background to the camp and describes life as an inmateGerman 2 pages 

  13. C.C. Aronsfeld: copy personal correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence relating to a letter published in the Times newspaper in 1977 by C.C. Aronsfeld, formerly deputy director of the Wiener Library, which questioned the extended closure period on records held at the Public Records Office relating to the author of an Anti-Semitic book on Anglo-Jewry, (Das Judentum in England , by Peter Aldag), published in Germany in 1940. Some of the correspondence betrays a latent anti-Semitism.

  15. German pre-war propaganda in England: Reports and publications

    This microfilm collection contains a variety of pre-war propaganda materials produced for consumption in Great Britain, including documentation about or from the Anglo-German Fellowship, Deutsche Ausländer Dienst, Deutsche Fichte Bund and the Anglo-German Information Service.

  16. Waldmann-Mandel collection

    The collection consists of the vital records and identity documents of Maurice Waldmann, Rita Waldmann-Mandel and Ludwig Mandel. It also contains letters to Ludwig Mandel, including one sent by his mother in Theresienstadt.

  17. Jews of Bukowina: Papers re compensation of German Jewish nationals

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documentation contains expert witness testimony concerning the German nationality of Jewish former residents of Bukowina, Rumania/ Ukraine in the context of claims for compensation in post war German trials:Criticism of Martin Broszat's paper (see below) from the United Restitution Organisation, Frankfurt, nd15 pages Frames1-14Copy expert witness testimony by Dr Emilie Kubaschek, for the Verwaltungsgericht der Freien Hansestadt, Bremen, in the case of Dr Wolf Mandel and V...

  18. Max Perls: Family papers

    This is a collection of correspondence from friends and family in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland and Stettin, close to the German border, to Max Perls and his wife in Chile.Correspondence from friends and family in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland and Stettin, close to the German border, to Max Perls and his wife in Santiago, Chile. Includes at -/20 a typescript poem by Friedrich Kroner, which appeared in Aufbau, Friday 14 November 1947. It was originally penned on 3 February 1944, while the author was in a slave labour camp in Thüringen

  19. Polish Jewish experience: Various papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of material, documenting the experiences of Jews in Poland, comprises 3 groups: reports; transcript newspaper articles and extracts; transcripts and extracts of letters from Poland.ReportsRapport sur la situation des Juifs en Galicie Orientale 1940, frames 3-12Rapport speciale sur la situation des Juifs à Lodz, frames 14-16La situation en Pologne, frames 18-20Tausende von jüdischen Flüchtlingen in Wilna, frames 21-22Die Deutschen in Warschau- das Martyrium der jüdischen Bevö...

  20. Antisemitism in Poland: reports re Jewish schools

    This collection comprises two reports on the situation of Jewish schools in Poland in 1931 and 1937 respectively. The first focuses on the effect of the anti-Jewish boycott movement; the fears of further restricted entry into the teaching profession; the failure of the Polish Socialist Party in opposing the antisemitic measures and the need for well known writers and professors to voice their disapproval of the current trend. The other report (date of receipt February 1937) provides statistics on the state of school provision for Jewish school children and describes the extent of poverty an...