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  1. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    This finding aid is the result of a stage-by-stage series of arranging and indexing processes which could only be completed as recently as 1989.The collection “Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland” is a fragmentary sub-collection (18 shelf meters) covering the years 1939 - 1945. Some of the files date back to the early thirties: the so-called “Vorakten” (background files) by attorneys and by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung wirtschaftlicher Interessen von in Deutschland wohnhaften oder wohnhaft gewesenen Juden GmbH“/FWI (Association for assistance in financial matters of Jews residing i...

  2. Reichskulturkammer Generalkartei (Reich Chamber of Culture: General Index)

    A1-A123: A microfilm copy of the central registry of membership of the Reichskulturkammer (RKK), 1930s-1940s, arranged alphabetically by individual surname. Originally maintained by the personnel section of the RKK, index cards have been supplemented by entries made by Allied occupation authorities. For each individual, one or more cards provide: name and address, birthdate and place, profession, RKK membership data and notations regarding political reliability and racial background. Also included in some instances are annotations from the Allied occupation authorities on denazifi...

  4. Lady Rose Henriques Archive

    The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

  5. Mosley's answers

  7. Log book of the Rover Scout Crew at Hay Internment Camp, NSW, Australia

    This log book documents the activities of a group of Austrian and German Jewish refugees whilst internees at Hay Internment Camp NSW, Australia. They formed themselves into a group called the Rover Scout Crew whilst on passage to Australia on the infamous 'Dunera Voyage' in July/ August 1940.

  9. Edith Herzer: correspondence re restitution

    The papers in this collection document the compensation claims made by Edith Herzer and her sister Hilde, German Jewish immigrants to Great Britain, whose parents were murdered at Auschwitz. Correspondence from the United Restitution Office in both London and Germany and compensation offices in Germany, along with forms, court decisions and affidavits, reveal the processes involved in claiming compensation for loss of profession, loss of inherited property and suffering caused by the Nazi regime.Correspondence and other papers re the claims of Edith and Hilde Herzer for compensation for los...

  10. Merzbach family documents

    The collection contains letters of condolence from colleagues in the banking world on the death of Wilhelm Merzbach in 1924. In additon there are some original and copy documents dating back to the era of the ghetto and the 'protected Jew'.

  11. Grete Salus: Poems

    This collection of typescript poems was written by Grete Salus during the period of her incarceration in the camps of Terezin, Auschwitz and Oederan.

  13. International Bureau for the Right of Asylum Aid to Political Refugees

    The reports and other papers in this collection concern a proposed international convention on the problem of refugees from Nazi Germany, in France.

  14. Central British Fund: Reports and other papers re orphans

    These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

  15. Reports and other papers re Jewish Social Work conference

    The reports and other papers in this collection relate to the Third International Conference on Social Work which took place in London in July 1936. It was held in conjunction with the International Conference for Jewish Social Work. The collection consists in the main of reports on the situation of Jews in many European countries and the USA.

  16. Julian Lehmann: Various draft articles and other writings

    This collection consists of draft articles and draft fragments of 2 unidentified works [of historical/ fiction?] by Julian Lehmann, a German Jewish journalist and pre-war immigrant to Great Britain. It is not known how many of the articles were published. The articles deal with many aspects of Jewish life and history with particular emphasis on the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish figures. Most of them range in length from approximately 2 to 8 pages- except for the drafts of the book-length works.

  17. International Refugee Organization, Bad Kissingen: reports

    These papers consist of information sheets; administrative and provisional orders; and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.

  19. Account of life in a ghetto

    This typescript copy account of life in an unidentified ghetto commences with a note in English that the letter extracts were received in New York from Switzerland. It is also headed ‘strictly confidential, for your personal information only' and annotated with the date May 1942.

  20. Personal account by Louis Lustig

    Personal account by Louis Lustig of his arrest for treason in March 1938 and his subsequent imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration campGerman 2 pagesThis personal account of life in Sachsenhausen was addressed to a Mrs Kerr in Johannesburg. The memoir is prefaced with the caveat that details of the author's experiences have been forgotten because after the imprisonment he deliberately tried to put the episode out of his mind. He describes himself as 82 years old at the time of writing.