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  1. Ilse Majer-Williams: family papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the family papers of Ilse Majer-Williams, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who escaped the Holocaust by being sent on a Kindertransport to wealthy sponsors in the UK in 1939. Personal papers including Ilse Majer-Williams' personal account and her biography; correspondence with family and friends; list of Ilse's belongings taken to the UK; papers documenting her parents' efforts to emigrate such as tax returns, insurance papers, tax and police clearance certificates, correspondence with the...

  3. Toch and Korn families: personal papers

    This collection consists of the papers of the Toch and Korn families, Jewish refugees from Vienna. Whilst the children Erika and Harry Toch emigrated to England and Palestine, respectively to flee Nazi persecution, their parents Wilhelm and Margarethe Toch were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp from where only their mother returned. Erika got married to Polish refugee, Salman Korn, in 1941 whose papers and correspondence are also included.Included are correspondence and papers from Theresienstadt, Deggendorf DP camp as well as Kitchener and Mooragh internment camps; school repor...

  4. Eva Webb: personal papers

    Personal correspondence and autobiographical account of Eva Webb. Also included is correspondence relating to her war compensation claim, confirmation of the death of Heinrich Poper by Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association and letters from her father.

  5. Edith Jayne: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Edith Jayne who emigrated with her Jewish parents from Vienna to Lisbon in 1938. Due to U.S. quota restrictions they had to wait another three years until they reached their intended destination of the United States.Personal papers including photographs, birth certificate and two biographical accounts (includes affidavit for pension purposes confirming and describing her background).

  6. Henry Hellmann and Eva Hellmann: personal papers

    Personal papers Including political articles and papers by Henry Hellmann; Hellmann's reminiscences of his parents, Michael and Anna Jacubowicz, and various autobiographical accounts of Henry and  Eva Hellmann; correspondence with family and friends; marriage and death certificates; school reports; journalists membership and press cards; photographs; as well as obituaries and condolences relating to Eva and Henry Hellmann.English German French

  9. Peter and Frieda Newton collection

    Personal papers including Frieda Newton's certificate of origin ('Heimatschein'), school reports, birth certificate, work references, papers for emigration such as medical certificate, police and tax clearance certificates, correspondence with the Austrian Self-Aid Domestic Agency in London, hairdressing and manicure certificate issued by the emigration department of the Jewish Community in Vienna as well as letters by the Jewish Refugees Committee confirming the deportation of Frieda Newton's family members. Also included are Peter Newton's Territorial Army enlistment certificate, naturali...

  10. Fred Worms collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Fred Worms, a former Jewish refugee who emigrated to England as a student. He became a highly successful businessman and philanthropist who contributed to developing cultural, sporting and religious facilities in Jerusalem and Israel.

  11. Erich and Magdalena Schulhof: family papers

    This collection consists of the family papers of Erich and Magdalena Schulhof, a Jewish family who fled Berlin after they were forced to sell their business due to the increasing Aryanisation of Nazi-Germany in the late 1930s.Personal papers including the couple's school reports and qualifications; birth, death and baptism certificates; naturalisation certificate; passports; papers relating to Erich Schulhof's work and the family's restitution claim; correspondence with family and friends; family portraits and copy of the family history. Also included are the papers of their children and th...

  12. Wilhelm Pollak: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Wilhelm Pollak, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who was forced to emigrate in 1939 after his release from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.Personal papers including correspondence and diary entries (including summarised translations) concerning Pollak's imprisonment, arrangements for his emigration to England and his stay at various internment camps. Also included are photocopies of inventories of Phillip and Friederike Pollak's property in Vienna.

  15. Gertrud and Max Joseph, Ida and Paul Simons and Arthur and Hans Bial: papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the Jewish family of Gaby Glassmann-Simons, in particular her grandparents, Gertrud and Max Joseph and Ida and Paul Simons.These papers include personal accounts as well as interviews with Walter Rau and Hans Sahl. Also included is other material relating to Jewish persecution such as an article by Gaby Glassman regarding Irene Bloomsfield's work on intergenerational communication within families affected by Nazi persecution (2003), and correspondence and papers relating to the Jewish community in Stralsund.The collection also consists of the pers...

  16. Stefanie and Walter Simon and Max Auerbach: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Walter and Stefanie Simon and Stefanie's father Max Auerbach, Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Germany in the mid 1930s because of the increasing difficulties in earning a living.Personal papers including Max Auerbach's school reports, qualifications, death certificate, two Iron Cross medals (1914-1918) and internment badges; Stefanie Simon's identify cards and passport, CV, school reports and qualifications,  birth, marriage and naturalisation certificates as well as photographs, internment badge and family history report; and Wal...

  18. Emilie Bergmann: correspondence from Otwock ghetto

    This collection consists of correspondence from Emilie Bergmann who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England. She describes her life in the ghetto, the scarcity of food and requests for food parcels, her health problems and her longing to be released.Correspondence from Emilie Bergmann, who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England.

  20. Account of the Kohn family's fate during the Holocaust

    This collection consists of a family history report on the fate of Thomas Brady's grandparents, Bernhard and Hedwig Kohn and their daughter Herta from Vienna who perished in the Holocaust.Account of the Kohn family's fate including illustrations of contemporary documents and details of other members of the family who were murdered.