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  1. Kahn-Freund correspondence

  2. Ministry for armaments and war production: Order

    Copy order from Albert Speer, minister for armaments and war production re the prohibiton of unauthorised manufacture and supply of goods 

  3. Sayeed: Book list

    List of books supplied by Mrs Sayeed to the British Library, Department of Oriental manuscripts and the Mocatta Library, UCL. 

  5. Hinda Elsztajn: report re Nazi persecution

    Interview transcript of Hinda Elsztajn, former inmate at Auschwitz and victim of Dr. ClaubergFrench Brussels 9 pages 

  6. Ida Day: Letter to Wiener re 'Lapins'

  8. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg: Letter re Spear family

    Copy letter from Bernhard Rolle of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg, to Hans Spear of Enfield Middlesex re the fate of his familyGerman 

  9. Letter addressed to the Jewish Central Information Office

    Letter addressed to the Jewish Central Information Office from Hans Grabowski of the Jüdische Gemeinde, Herford, detailing the fate of the town's Jewish communityGerman

  10. Passport issued to Jacques Kaufmann

    Passport issued to Jacques Kaufmann from the mayor of Schiefbahn, North Rhine WestphaliaFrench 

  11. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  12. 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...

  13. Warburg family tree and other papers

  14. War crimes trials: Document transcripts and other papers

    This collection consists of trial transcripts and copy documents relating to the trial proceedings at Nuremberg, which followed the trial of the major war criminals. The papers in this collection comprise copy trial transcripts, and reports and correspondence relating to some of the 'subsequent trials' mentioned above. It is worth noting that the trial transcripts are verbatim whereas those in the published version are often abridged or extracted.

  15. Nuremberg war crimes trials: Reports and other papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection consists of mostly original documents relating to the Nuremberg Trial of the major German war crminals. The papers in this collection are those which she had worked on and which had been in her desk when she left.The bulk of the material appears to be a case for the indictment broken down into 6 parts covering such offences as war crimes, crimes against Jews, and the plunder of art treasures. Each case is supported by argument and reference to documentary evidence. The names of the individ...

  16. Herta Ningo: family papers

  17. Joachim Prinz: Miscellaneous papers

  18. Mayor of Nuremberg: notice to Council officers

    Typescript notice from the mayor of Nuremberg instructing council officials to ensure that they always use correct German, ie free from foreign influenceThese instructions issued by the mayor of Nuremberg to the city's council officials reflect the Nazi preoccupation with maintaining the supposed purity of the German language. The last paragraph strongly urges individuals, professions, businesses etc to be described in terms of their ethnicity; they are either German or Jewish. They can not therefore be described as being Christian since the latter does not define ethnicity.

  19. Reichskanzlei and Reichspräsident: Official correspondence

    These miscellaneous letters from various offices within the Nazi party hierarchy cover a variety of apparently unrelated, low level subjects. A fifth letter (possibly addressed to the depositor), from a British soldier, describing efforts to trace friends and family of the addressee, is written on paper, on the back of which is printed the name and address of Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbankpräsident.

  20. Notice re exhibition of healing methods of nature, Dresden

    Mimeographed notice re exhibition on the healing methods of nature at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden