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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Kurt Weinberg: Family and business papers

    This collection comprises the papers of the Weinberg family, cigar manufacturers of Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia : business papers- including contracts, consigment notes, accounts, tax details, loan contracts, land register entries for the property of the Weinberg family; family papers including marriage agreements, wills, powers of attorney, correspondence 

  3. Captain Perry: copy personal papers

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers of Captain P. J. C. Perry of the British Control Commission, sector Berlin, documents in part his role and activities as a member of the British military authorities in Berlin in the immediate post-war period. He is variously described as the nutrition officer of the nutrition and agriculture department of the military authority; Commander for the admission of motor vehicles; and ‘Herrn Keppenperie' (964/4).

  4. Notes re the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany

    Notes on the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany. The notes provide details on the fate of German banking and industry in the zones of the 4 occupying powers. Issues such as nationalisation (socialisation), decartellisation are discussed and reference is made to the fate of some of Nazi Germany's leading banks and companies. The sources for these notes are newspaper reports; notes taken at press conferences; and extracts from the constitutions of various Länder

  5. Correspondence re Josef Meyer testimony

    Correspondence re Joseph Meyer testimony 

  6. Kitchener Camp report and other papers

    Papers of and about Ernest Martin Joseph including transcript of a lecture on the history of Richborough (Kitchener Camp) for refugees and protocol of a meeting of thanksgiving for Ernest Martin Joseph's life.

  7. German information centre

    This collection comprises various papers relating to Holocaust remembrance and compensation to victims, which were collated by the German Information Centre. Copies in German and English of each of the papers are included.

  9. Hashoah Ve'hagvura book of remembrance

    This unbound volume was produced by Yad Vashem in 1966 to mark remembrance day for the Holocaust and Heroism, and was designed for use in schools. It contains photographs depicting the rise of Nazism; the destruction and desecration of synagogues in Vienna, 1938; the Warsaw Ghetto; Yellow Stars; Lodz; Dachau; partisans and the Jewish Brigade.

  10. Esterwegen concentration camp rule book

    Esterwegen concentration camp rule book 

  11. Jews in Hungary: Miscellaneous documents

    Apparently unrelated documents concerning Jews in Hungary.

  12. Peter Andreas Nonnengardt-Nouvelot: papers re imprisonment in North Africa

    Peter Andreas Nonnengardt-Nouvelot: papers re imprisonment in North Africa 

  13. Esther Brunstein: text of speech given at UN

    This document is the text of a speech made by Esther Brunstein at the United Nations Building, New York, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  15. Documents on occupied Norway

    German documents on occupied Normandy, above all addressing propaganda and education.

  16. Overview of French anti-Jewish legislation

    Copy report on French anti-Jewish legislationThe report includes the following subjects: general statistics on the French Jewish population; definition of a Jew; Jewish professional activities; Jewish property; Jewish capital; the treatment of foreign JewsThe original was probably written sometime shortly after the second Statut des juifs, 2 June 1941, of the Vichy Regime since this legislation is consistently referred to throughout.7 pages

  17. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  18. Moritz Plaut: biography

    This biography of Moritz Plaut, a banker, and resident of Berlin (1822-1910) was written by his daughters, Franziska Model, Margarethe Lehmann, Susanne Blumenthal and published, with original photographs pasted in, in June 1922.

  19. Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material

    Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material 

  20. Holocaust survivor interview transcripts

    The transcribed life stories of Holocaust surviviors in this collection are the result of Freda Kosmin’s efforts to record and preserve the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust, paying particular attention to what they achieved after the war. The project was therefore given the title: How Hitler failed: From Survival to Success.The project was instigated when Freda met one of the interviewees then saw him speak publicly about his experiences. He agreed to be interviewed by Freda and also recommended other potential interviewees. There are 7 interview transcripts in total, each seve...