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  1. Dr Richard Michels: personal papers

    This collection consists of correspondence and journals of Richard Michels, mostly whilst on board a variety of ships in his capacity as ship's doctor c1900; some photographs; and typescript accounts of Kempen, Posen by a relative on his wife's side of the family. The correspondence consists of folders of loose letters and bound volumes of letterbooks and journals. All of it is from Richard Michels to his mother.

  2. HART, Lt Cdr Leonard George Richard (1903-1987)

    Papers relating to his service in Germany, 1945-1947, principally comprising British Zone Review vol 1 no 7, published by the Control Commission for Germany, (British Element), Dec 1945; Royal Rupert Times and Garrison News, edited by Hart, Feb 1947; photographs of Belsen concentration camp, 1945. Papers relating to Hart's work as Recreational Libraries Officer, 1966, notably an article on Hart and the RN Library Service cut from Navy News no 141, Mar 1966. Beating the invader and If the invader comes, two printed leaflets advising civilians how they should behave in the event of a German i...

  3. Hadjeret el Meguil, Algeria: Various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents concerning life in Hadjeret el Meguil and other internment camps in Vichy North Africa was, according to a covering note at the beginning of the collection, donated to the Wiener Library, by way of gratitude for the assistance that was given to the depositor with respect to his restitution claims.Material re camps in North Africa including the following:Type-written copy of a novel, "Levinstein", by Peter Andreas, based on his experiences in forced labour units ...

  4. Edmund Hamber papers

    This collection consists of the letters which Edmund Hamber wrote to his children while he was incarcerated in Dachau concentration camp. In addition there are copy family photographs, copy article re the Hamber brothers and Kiba and sundry other material.

  5. Eric Erber collection

    The collection contains the personal papers of Eric, Robert and Anna, in particular vital records and identity documents. Eric’s papers include the materials he collected in seeking compensation for a property owned by his mother’s family. Robert’s papers contain materials on his dismissal from the Viennese tram company because of the Nazi race laws and a letter from the foreign representatives of the Austrian socialists offering Robert support as a political refugee. The collection also includes Robert’s correspondence with various institutions on the whereabouts of his brother Ernst, who...

  6. Cook book with annotations

    Cookbook entitled Grundrezepte als Schlüssel zur Kochkunst with pencilled annotations by the owner

  7. Marie Rosenberg: documents re restitution claim

    Papers which document a restitution claim by Marie Rosenberg.

  8. Refugee camps in Switzerland: Various records

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this collection.This microfilm collection of copy records documents the official policy regarding the management of refugees in Switzerland and the day to day running of refugee camps. The papers consist of memoranda, circulars and minutes of meetings of camp leaders.Copies of instructions issued by the Eidgenossisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartment, Polizeiabteilung, Arbeitslager für Emigranten including:Miscellaneous memoranda, 24 Apr 1940- 10 Apr 1942, 14 pp, including 'Reglement für die Lagerführung, Pr...

  9. Plaut family papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archveFamily papers

  10. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  11. Papers of the Stepney Jewish Lads' Club

    The Stepnian Stepney Jewish Club Chronicle West Central Jewish Lads' Club Magazine The Bradian Stepney Jewish Lads' Club Denzil Myer Magazine A to Z of Judaism Minute books, 1924-56. Copies of , 1932-49; ; ; and . Copies of , Nov 1922 and Jul 1928. History of the Stepney Jewish Lads' Club, 1901-36 and three Stepney Jewish Lads' Club booklets, 1914-15 and n.d.; pamphlet issued in memory of Robert Asknew, 1901-40; address of B.L.Q.Henriques on 'The club and the religious problem', 1930, and published by the Religious Advisory Committee, 1963. General correspondence files and correspondence wi...

  12. Adolf Neumann and Margot Cahn: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Margot Cahn (1928-1949) (1674/1-23) and Dr Adolf Neumann (1933-1938) (1674/24-29), who met in 1933 documenting their daily lives, meetings and social events in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until the November pogroms in 1938. Shortly after this event they both emigrated to different countries, Margot to England and Adolf to Scandinavia. Margot Cahn's life in London can be traced through her diaries until 1949. The diaries include poetry and contain memorabilia such as photographs, press cuttings, programmes as well as pressed flowers and leaves.

  13. German Trades Unions in Great Britain: Miscellaneous material

    This collection comprises newsletters, activity reports and and other material relating to the activities of the TUCGWGB.

  14. Frank family collection

    This collection consists of copy Red Cross telegrams between members of the Frank family during the war and with a people tracing agency after the war.

  15. Frank Collins: personal papers

    The collection comprises both original and copy material.

  16. Archives of the Union of Jewish Women

    Minutes of the general committee, 1902-18; executive committee, 1902-72; annual general meetings, 1960-71; council, 1963-70; general welfare sub-committee, 1946-59; Helen Lucas House committee, 1968-76; Delissa Joseph Memorial Fund, 1938- 64; case sub-committee, 1913-16, 1943-62; reconstruction scheme sub-committee, 1917-19; homes association sub- committee, 1927-37; and the loan funds sub-committee, 1933-5, 1943-59. Reports of meetings, 1902-25. Attendance registers for committees, 1958-71. Annual reports, 1903-61. Report of the Union of Jewish Women of Great Britain to the International C...

  17. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien: various papers

    The original papers in this collection document the activities of the representative organization of the Jewish cultural community in Vienna in 1939. Also included in the deposit and now housed in the Wiener Library 'Special Collections' are an original Jewish tram pass issued to Berta Brand and 2 pieces of 'Jude' badges.Correspondence and papers of the head office of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Wien including correspondence and statements from the housing and emigration departments of the IKW, which provide biographical details of Jews who have suffered persecution under the Nazis an...

  18. Adolf Frankl: papers re art exhibition

    This collection of papers relating to an art exhibition of Adolf Frankl's works consists of correspondence, opening addresses, newspaper reviews and catalogues.

  19. Deutsche Volksunion: leaflet and questionnaire

    This collection consists of two questionnaires for an opinion poll of the "Deutsche Volksunion (DVU), January 1989, directed against the European Community and the right to vote for non-Germans in Germany, and a printed circular letter from the DVU head, Gerhard Frey.

  20. Anneliese Silberstein: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Anneliesa Silberstein, a Jewish girl from Berlin who emigrated to Palestine in 1939.Personal papers Including certificate of inheritance and her father's last will, birth and marriage certificates of her parents, family register, photocopy of Anneliesa's Palestinian certificate of naturalisation (1743/1-) and some family correspondence (1743/2). Also included are two of Anneliesa's diaries (1743/3) in which she refers to the political situation and how it affected her life as a Jewish girl in Berlin. She discusses her fate and the meaning of l...