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  1. Eva Noack-Mosse: Theresienstadt diary and other papers

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This diary covers the period of her incarceration at Theresienstadt from 12 February 1945 to 1 July 1945 and is preceded by an 11 page personal account of life under the Nazis from 1934. An addition to the original foreward, dated 1975, suggests that this version is a transcript copy. In addition to the diary there are a number of her personal documents form the period. The diary is dated Obersdorf, Allgäu, 1945.

  2. Walter Rauch: correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence relating to Walter Rauch who was interned as a Jewish refugee at Douglas, Isle of Man, and in Australia.Correspondence and papers including are his application for release from internment and pamphlet calling for boycott of Jewish shoe shops (1723/6).English German

  4. Antonia Jacoby collection

    This collection contains a photocopy and transcripts of correspondence from Antonia Jacoby sent to her family in 1933 and in 1940, a few days after she escaped from Germany and emigrated to Japan. The complex financial problems she describes are a reflection of the new laws imposed on Jews in Germany at the time. The letter from Japan was written to Marie Behrendt, wife of Antonia's cousin Fritz Behrendt, who used to live in Breslau before emigrating to Argentina.

  5. Joe Quittner personal papers

    This collection comprises certificates; personal correspondence; material re education/ training; material pertaining to Joe Quittner's refugee experience; miscellaneous papers including detailed inventory of the collection

  6. Political Intelligence Department: various papers

    These papers are evidence of the work of the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office in its efforts to guage official and public opinion in Nazi Germany on a whole range of subjects.

  7. Hepner and Cahn: family papers

    This collection of papers consists primarily of original (and some copy) correspondence between friends and relatives of the Cahn Hepner family. Käthe Ruth Cahn-Hepner (1924-2019) and Mrs Jacobs-Hepner, the depositors of this collection, are the daughters of Fritz and Leonie Cahn, German Jews who spent the war years in Switzerland. The depositors provided brief notes about most of the correspondents, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. This information has been incorporated into the descriptions below, along with information from additional sources, which sheds further light on their fa...

  8. Norman Hancock correspondence

    /1-19 Letters received mostly from fellow scouts in Austria asking for assistance to get out of the country. Other correspondents include the Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees, the Catholic Committee for Refugees from Germany, the Council for german Jewry and The Times newspaper

  9. Grossbard family: Correspondence

    This collection comprises correspondence from the friends and family of Siegfried Grossbard, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who eventually became resident in Great Britain. Much of the material was used by Michael Gordon, the depositor and son of Siegfried, in his history of his father's experience of the Nazi years Plaything of Destiny [Wiener Library OSP 497]. The latter provides a full history of the family and a commentary on the correspondence. Not all of the correspondence referred to in Plaything of Destiny is held within this collection. In particular there are no letters from the G...

  10. Otto Bendix: letter to wife

    This original farewell note (with transcription) documents the last moments of Otto Bendix' life in Berlin prior to deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942.

  11. Oppenheim: copy family documents

    This collection of copy family documents sheds some light on the fate of the Oppenheim family from Kassel.

  12. Malvin Warschauer: copy papers

    The papers in this collection offer a detailed insight into the life and ideas of one of Germany's most distinguished Rabbis, Malvin Warschauer. They also give an account of the lives of Jews in Germany, particularly Berlin, from the end of the 19th century to the Nazi era

  13. Copy papers re the Holocaust in Poland

    1295/1 Sheet of copy photographs containing the following 3 images: nd1) undated photograph of children in a classroom at Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. The children perished at Auschwitz in May 1944. The teacher was the depositor's mother. 2) undated photograph of a woman, Sarah Krischer, who was selected by Mengele in May 1944. She was 27 years old. Her 2 sisters, brother and nephews as well as parents were selected by Mengele and gassed on the day of arrival. 3) undated photograph taken in Volhynia province, Poland. The 2 men with beards were murdered. The one on the left is Rabbi I...

  14. Löbl family papers

    This collection contains correspondence from the parents of Robert Löbl concerned with his safe custody in the UK. Also contained are photographs of Robert and printouts of Pages of Testimony from Yad Vashem Shoah Victims’ Database. 

  15. Marx family documents

    This collection of papers consists of the immigration documentation of a German Jewish family who emigrated to Great Britain in the 1930s. The collection consists of paperwork generated by the British and American immigration authorities and documentation brought from Germany by the Marx family members./1:Immigration paperwork re Ludwig Marx, 1939-1941/2: Immigration paperwork re Regina Marx, 1939-1941/3: Immigration paperwork re Robert Marx, 1939-1941

  16. Esterwegen concentration camp rule book

    Esterwegen concentration camp rule book 

  17. Annie Vallance collection

  18. Hugo and Gretel Klein: copy correspondence

    This collection comprises the literal translation of letters written in old German Gothic script by the parents of Kay Fyne and her brothers and sister (now living in the U.S.). Kay's brother-in-law, Kurt Klein, who lives in Seattle, Washington, managed to decypher a lot of the script, which Kay has used to help in her own interpretation of how she felt her parents would wish to express themselves. She has, however, tried to keep as near as possible to the actual written style.A lot of the references and names in the letters refer to members of both her father's and mother's families and th...

  19. Selmar Biener: papers re restitution claim

    The material consists of original material and some copy documentation. It has been arranged in date order.

  20. Kaethe Spiegel: papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access the digital version of this archive.Microfilm collection of family papers and writings of Käthe Spiegel. This collection consists of two parts: Käthe Spiegel's personal and family papers, including obituaries of her father; and an essay entitled Studien zum Werke des Agathokles, a cover title for a critique of Mein Kampf.