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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Norman Hancock correspondence

    /1-19 Letters received mostly from fellow scouts in Austria asking for assistance to get out of the country. Other correspondents include the Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees, the Catholic Committee for Refugees from Germany, the Council for german Jewry and The Times newspaper

  2. Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

    Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.German 9 pages 

  4. Copy documents re British post-war Fascists

  6. Robert Norton family papers

    Copy personal papers of Robert Norton, formerly Robert Joachim Neubauer

  7. Anti-German protest and prayer meetings, Great Britain: leaflets

    This collection consists of original leaflets advertising anti-German protest meetings and exhorting readers to boycott German products in the light of increasing discrimination against Jews in Germany. A number of British Jewish interest groups and political groups are represented. There is also a series of prayers on behalf of 'our bretheren in Germany' produced by the office of the Chief Rabbi.A note in the collection states that the non-religious material originally appeared in shop windows throughout the East End.All of the material is in English and the prayers are also in Hebrew.

  8. Programme and correspondence re Das Schloss

  9. Walter Rosenberger: Correspondence and papers

    This collection consists of correspondence re property holdings and taxation of a former German Jewish judge in the Berlin Civil Court

  10. Report re antisemitism in Holland

    Report re events in Holland with particular reference to anti-Semitic activityDutch 17 pages 

  11. Reunion of the Kindertransportees: correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence from former German Jewish refugees, who came to Great Britain on the Kindertransporte, and who attended the reunion of former Kindertransportees, organised by Bertha Leverton in 1989

  12. Memo re teaching of history

  13. German Government: Holocaust Memorial day papers

    This collection consists of various papers, mostly speech transcripts from the German president and chancellor on Holocaust Memorial Day, 2000.

  14. Commemoration speech by President Roman Herzog

    This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

  15. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland

    Readers need to resrve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.The material consists of correspondence of both the Reichsvereinigung and Reichsvertretung; contemporary press extracts relating to both organisations; various reports and papers providing statistical data on the Jewish population in Germany, with particular reference to the expropriation of Jewish property

  16. Elli Kamm: personal papers on Terezin ghetto

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elli Kamm relating to her and her sister's restitution claim.Personal papers Including restitution papers, eyewitness testimonies, Elli Kamm's 'Arbeitsbuch' and various work references.English, German

  17. Rolf Oppenheimer: family papers

    This collection comprises one folder containing the personal papers of Rolf Oppenheimer including his father's WWI Iron Cross certificate, work references, RAF application papers, naturalisation papers; also his uncle, Walter Fels' restitution claim including an affidavit from Ernst Niquet confirming that he hid Walter Fels in Berlin during the latter years of the war. In an audio interview the donor describes life in Berlin during the Novemberpogrom, 1938 prior to coming to Great Britain, including his membership of the Hitler Youth; details of the desperation of residents trying to l...

  18. Austrian League: Letter re Bavarian Movement

    Letter calling for the founding of a ‘Free Bavarian Movement' by Otto Hecht of the Austrian League 

  20. Report entitled league of Nations and racial persecution in Germany

    Typescript report entitled The League of Nations and Racial Persecution in Germany, designated ‘Strictly Confidential- not to be communicated' with the following sub-headings: ‘International representation against persecution before the foundation of the league'; ‘Position since the foundation of the league'; ‘Position of minorities in Germany'; ‘Possibility of Action under the covenant'; ‘Procedure before the League'; ‘Importance of action'English 6 pages