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  1. Correspondence with Asociación Austria Cultural

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding Robert Otto Gerö, an Austrian Jew living in Argentina. As former member of the Judenpolizei in Vienna Gerö had reportedly helped the Gestapo to detect Jews in hiding in order to avoid his own deportation.

  2. Hugo Nothmann: Printed letters

  3. Bertha Pappenheim: Copy letter

    Copy letter of Bertha Pappenheim, dated FrankfurtBarely legible 

  4. Correspondence with Lectures pour tous

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Contained are: drafts of an invitation text, lists of invited individuals, press cuttings referring to this event

  5. Correspondence with Mumm, Giselher

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    An enquiry by Mumm for documentation of his persecution by the Gestapo during the Nazi era.

  6. Correspondence with Hildebrand, Astrid

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding investigation into war crimes in Latvia, in particular the role of Julijs Bracs, member of the execution squad of the Gestapo in Riga.

  7. Dresner family collection

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  8. Buchenwald: Miscellaneous documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access the digital version of this archive.This is a microfilm collection of original records of and about Buchenwald concentration camp.

  9. Order re measures against Jews, Vienna

    Order from the Führer des SS Oberabschnittes österreich, Vienna, to all SS units referring to an order of Gauleiter Buerckel that all section leaders were to be responsible for preventing actions by the SS against Jews and that if measures have to be taken against Jews these would be carried out by the authorities and the Gestapo.It bears a stamp (in French) of the U.S. 3rd Army, which suggests it became a captured document probably during the occupation of Austria by the allies at the end of the war.

  10. Nazi persecution of Jehova's Witnesses

    This collection of copy documentation records the Nazi persecution of Jehova's witnesses. It consists of a range of documents, the originals of which are held by a variety of archives, and were brought together by the Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher. It is assumed that this is only a fraction of the total material which this institution holds. The purpose behind this selection is unknown.The range of material covers lists of camp inmates from a number of concentration camps; Nazi military court verdicts in cases of conscientious objection; Gestapo correspondence; case files on in...

  11. Gunter Wittenberg: copy personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Gunter Wittenberg, a former German Jewish refugee from Berlin. The papers contain an extract from his diary covering the early years in this country and correspondence and papers relating to his work history.

  12. Correspondence with Schoeps, Hans Joachim

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on various subjects including requests for information on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp and the "Schoeps-Kuchmann" affair in which Schoeps accuses Wehrenalp of being a Gestapo informer; publications of Schoeps

  13. Correspondence with Synagogen-Gemeinde Köln

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence about an indictment against Emanuel Schäfer and crimes committed in Semlin concentration camp, an indictment against the former head of the Gestapo Cologne, and a planned article on the history of the Jews of Cologne.

  14. Correspondence with Ullstein Verlag

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding mutual enquiries for copies of certain published material. This includes requests by Ullstein for documents on the limitation of the freedom of press during the Nazi era (1959), for photos of the persecution of Jews (1960), and for Gestapo related documents for the exhibition catalogue Monumenta Judaica (1963). Conversely, the Library asked for portraits of famous representatives of German Jewry.

  15. Correspondence with Israelitische Gemeinde Würzburg

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The letters concern an enquiry by the Library for access to preserved Gestapo files on the deportation of Jews from the Lower Franconia region.

  16. Correspondence with Kersten, Kurt

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding source material about the arrest of German social democratic politicians Rudolf Breitscheid and Rudolf Hilferding in France, and the latter’s death in the Gestapo prison in Paris.

  17. Copy documents re Bad Aussee resistance movement and Operation Bernhard

    This collection of copy documentation relates to the Austrian resistance movement during the Nazi era and to the attempt by the Nazis to wage economic warfare by flooding Britain with counterfeit British currency in the operation named Unternehmen Bernhard, after the Gestapo officer in charge, Bernhard Krueger

  18. Eric and Käthe Curzon: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of Eric Curzon and his wife Käthe (née Kupferberg),  Jewish refugees who met in London after they had both fled Nazi German persecutions in their home towns of Vienna and Leipzig.Personal papers including Eric Curzon's documents such as qualifications; Heimatschein; birth, police clearance and naturalisation certificates; last will and testament; and a brief personal account relating to the Austrian annexation and his emigration. Also included is Käthe Curzon's correspondence from family and friends as well as a diary (1939-1941) written in ...

  20. Ellinor Adler: Family documents

    This collection of family documents describes the plight of a Viennese family: an aryan woman, her Jewish husband and their daughter. In addition to some original documentation, there are 2 personal accounts by the mother, Maria Goldschmied, which cover the period from the arrival of the Nazis to the 1970s when she used to still visit her native Austria. Of particular interest are the memoirs at 1319/11-12 and material relating to Alwin Goldschmied's arrest, including a visitor's pass allowing his wife to visit him in prison which was retained and used to rebut official denials that he was ...