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  1. Thea Wessley: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence received by Thea Wessley in England from her family and friends in Austria. Thea Wessley, a Jewish girl from Vienna, was sent to England in 1939 in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her parents, Siegfried and Fanny Deuches, were separated and perished in concentration camps in the Holocaust. Includes English summary.Correspondence sent by her parents as well as her grandfather Hermann Zwicker, and other relations and friends. The correspondence documents the life of an Austrian refugee girl in England, the worries of her parents about her health, educ...

  2. Papers of the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables, Tottenham

    Minute books, 1889-1989 (22 vols.); annual reports, 1896-1995 (incomplete series); legal and financial papers, including deeds for High Road, Tottenham, 1897-1914; correspondence, photograph albums and loose photographs, including albums for Berthons House, Walthamstow, c.1899, and one for the Home, Tottenham, 1906 Minute book of the trustees of the British Tay-Sachs Foundation, 1966-74 (1 vol.)

  3. Papers of Rabbi H.F.Reinhart

    Correspondence and papers relating to the West London Synagogue, including correspondence with individuals, papers from religious classes and papers about alterations to and the decorations of the synagogue. Correspondence and newspaper articles relating to Reinhart's resignation, 1957. Correspondence, papers and financial material for the Westminster Synagogue. General correspondence files, including material on the building of the Seymour Hall, 1934, the foundation of new synagogues within the Association of Synagogues in Great Britain, the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief and...

  4. Schlesinger Hostel: papers

    This collection comprises original papers and correspondence which documents the establishment and maintenance of a refugee children's hostel in Highgate, London, 1938-1939. The papers offer a valuable insight into the processes and issues relating to such an enterprise. Two of the former children produced a documentary reader comprising copies and translations of much of the material in the archive (1625/1). It also includes copies of documents from Ilse Jacobsohn's (later Ilse Henry) own file. The personal files of the other children are not open to the public.

  5. Hahlo family collection

    The collection contains vital records, identity papers and other personal papers of members of the Hahlo family, principally Peter Hahlo. In addition there are interviews with Peter and Fay Hahlo conducted by their son, Gerry, as well as the memoirs Georg Hahlo wrote for his children and family photographs.

  6. Edward Stern collection

    This collect comprises mostly the personal papers of Edward Stern with reference to his school record, his employment history and his army record; also included are papers pertaining to his wife, Ellen and his father and mother, Heinrich and Erna.

  7. 'The Cedar Boys', Waddesdon collection

    This collection contains mostly copy papers and photographs pertaining to the Steinhardt family, Waddesdon Manor and the Flersheim-Sichel-Stiftung.Audio interview with the donor, Helga Brown, who describes how she and her family lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s; that her father ran the Jewish orphanage school, Philanthropin, having been forced out of his teaching post at a state school; how her sister persuaded the UK branch of the Rothschild banking family to support and fund the relocation of the boys to Waddesdon Hall, Buckinghamshire; how Julian Lyton played a key role in the pro...

  8. Wendy Lefort family papers

  9. 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.

  10. Edith Newton (née Kramm) collection

    This collection comprises mostly correspondence between Edith Newton née Kramm, a Jewish refugee from Austria, and Paul Newton, formerly Neugröschel, also a Jewish refugee probably from Austria. In addition there is some general correspondence including official correspondence related to Naturalisation and a collection of photographs.

  11. Steinhardt family papers

    Contains mostly documents related to the family's immigration to UK in 1939

  12. Abram Wolraich collection

    The collection consists of 5 pdfs containing 251 pages of documents and correspondence with and on Abram Wolraich regarding his care after arriving in Britain, as well as a presentation for schools on Abram’s life.

  13. Ernst Kamm personal papers

    The collection contains personal papers and photographs.

  14. Correspondence with Mueller, Ernst

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Beside the exchange of materials on historical as well as current affairs the correspondence focuses on research Mueller conducted for the Library, issues related to the postwar activities of some Kartell-Convent (K.C.) branches and the person of Bruno Weil, and an eyewitness account by Mueller for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. Contained are some press cuttings and an invitation for a public talk in London.

  15. Correspondence with Lask, Gustav

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the consignment of an excerpt from Lasks’ prewar diaries to The Wiener Library. Concerning his experiences of the November Pogrom 1938 this excerpt was later merged into the Library’s eyewitness testimony collection.

  16. Correspondence with Friedländer, Fritz

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Aside from the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V) the correspondence documents Friedländer’s long-term involvement in The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. As commissioned interviewer he gathered several accounts from Holocaust survivors who had settled in Australia after the war. The letters throw light on methodological and financial details, the progress made by Friedländer, and eventually the project’s termination in the early 1960s. The correspondence comprises handwritten and typewritten letters.

  17. Correspondence with Grossmann, Kurt R.

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on a wide range of various issues, including among others the number of Holocaust victims, the German edition of Gerald Reitlinger’s study ‘The Final Solution’, or Antisemitism in West Germany. Grossmann’s own work is reflected by numerous requests for books and other source material from The Wiener Library.Contained are: excerpts and statements on Grossmann’s book ‘Germany’s moral debt’; a post card; an article about anti-Semitic incidents in Germany (1960).

  18. Correspondence with Schaeffer, Hans

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on various subjects including among others: the exchange of materials; the authoring of several articles for the Library’s Bulletin; information on individuals acquainted with Schaeffer associated with the Nazi leadership; Schaeffer's diaries and archival legacy including proposed conditions regarding a donation to The Wiener Library and a permanent loan to the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich. Contained are several shorthand notes, a WL memo, a press cutting, and a postcard.

  19. Correspondence with Lamm, Hans

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence on various subjects including among others: the acquisition of Lamm’s doctoral thesis; options of participation in the Dokumentenwerk project, an edition of documents on the persecution of Jews in the Nazi era the Library was working on at the time; problems of publishing a book in Eugen Kogon’s publishing house Frankfurter Hefte.The correspondence further centres on enquiries by Lamm for bibliographic information and access to source material. The latter refers to some projects he was working on including a book project about German president Theodor Heuss, a TV show on the ...

  20. Correspondence with Friedmann, Fridolin Moritz Max

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Beside an enquiry for source material and the provision of contact details of a potential interviewee for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project the correspondence centres on an engagement of Friedmann by The Wiener Library for compiling an index to the German Jewish Press for the years 1920-1933 relating to the information published there on the origin and growth of the Nazi Party.