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  1. Eric Walters-Kohn: Copy family documents

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers document, in part, the life of Eric Walters-Kohn's family. The material comprises copy published and unpublished documents

  3. Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck

    Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck including typescript notes of a meeting between Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Leo Baeck, October 1955 (1156/9)This collection of correspondence between Leo Baeck and Mrs Ilse Grimbly, Leo Baeck's former secretary, is mostly of an ephemeral nature.

  4. Ilse von Hassell: Correspondence to Alex Wetzlar

    Two letters and two postcards from Ilse von Hassell to Alex Wetzlar re the diaries of her former husband Ulrich von HassellThis collection of correspondence from Ilse von Hassell to Alex Wetzlar sheds some light on the publication of her former husband's diaries. Copies and transcripts are included.

  5. Miscellaneous documents re aliens in the British army

    This collection of papers documents the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish servicemen in the British Army during the Second World War.

  6. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...

  7. Wolfgang and Werner Loewy: Correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

  8. Dr Elmar Rich: Copy documents re German nationality

    Copy documents re the ethnicity of Dr. Elmar Rich and his wife, including a letter from the regional council, dated 7 August 1940, stating that he does not belong to the German race.German Czech 

  10. A.P. Peres: correspondence with Dr E. Benes and other papers

    These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years. The papers include correspondence between Alfred Pavel Peres and the president of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes.

  11. Alice Fink: Family papers

    These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

  12. Copy list of Auschwitz prisoners

    On each sheet it is stated that Hermann Langbein authenticated the signature (on the original), as General Secretary of the Internationale Auschwitz-Komitee.

  13. Copy article re Terezin

    Copy article entitled Das ‘Musterghetto' Theresienstadt in which the author provides some historical background to the camp and describes life as an inmateGerman 2 pages 

  14. Copy order re confiscation of Jewish property

    Copy order from the head of the military government in Belgium and Northern France to commanders throughout the region re the confiscation of Jewish property 

  15. Bacmann: Copy deportation form

    Copy deportation form including order to confiscate possessions of Mr Bacmann, issued by Reichsministerium der besetzen Ostgebiete. 

  16. Terezin: Note re materials and shortage of doctors

    Copy note from the health section of the Jewish Management Committee of Terezin re materials and shortage of doctors 

  17. Max Perls: Family papers

    This is a collection of correspondence from friends and family in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland and Stettin, close to the German border, to Max Perls and his wife in Chile.Correspondence from friends and family in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland and Stettin, close to the German border, to Max Perls and his wife in Santiago, Chile. Includes at -/20 a typescript poem by Friedrich Kroner, which appeared in Aufbau, Friday 14 November 1947. It was originally penned on 3 February 1944, while the author was in a slave labour camp in Thüringen

  18. Copy letter re conditions at Drancy

    This copy letter re conditions in Drancy during the Nazi era was enclosed with an account of life in Drancy called There by the Grace of God by the depositor, A.R. Thomas. The latter is now housed with the Unpublished Memoirs, Number 4101. The letter, which is addressed to Serge Klarsfeld, the prominent Nazi hunter, is signed by five former British merchant navy seamen who were prisoners at Drancy. The purpose of the letter is to offer support to Klarsfeld in his prosecution of Paul Touvier, a former member of the regime at Drancy.

  19. International Committee for Intellectual Refugees: Statement of activities

    Statement of the activities of the International Committee for Intellectual Refugees, a Geneva based organization, founded to provide support to intellectuals, persecuted by the NazisEnglish 2 pages 

  20. Copy witness statements re Auschwitz war criminals

    Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who descr...