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  1. 'Hidden Jews of Berlin': transcript interviews

    This collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted for the TV programme The Hidden Jews of Berlin. Also floppy disk of the same. The subjects include detailed accounts of life in hiding in Berlin during World War II; experience of capture, interrogation by Jewish collaborators and Gestapo and betrayal by Jews; Mischlinge; Fabrikation; Siemens; Rosenstrasse protest; Grosse Hamburger Strasse; life in Berlin before the war.

  2. Gerhard Weiler: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Gerhard Weiler, a Jewish scientist who emigrated in 1934 after receiving an offer to set up his own chemistry laboratory at Oxford University for his research.Gerhard Weiler's diaries, mostly of a personal nature describing his travels, activities with friends and family as well as comments on political events around the world. Also included is an extract from a Black List of the Gestapo which includes his name.English  German

  3. Ludwig Steiner: Dachau concentration camp release permit

    This collection contains a photocopy of Ludwig Steiner's release permit ('Entlassungsschein') from Dachau concentration camp. Due to his Jewish background Steiner was arrested and spent one year at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg and later Dachau concentration camp before being released mortally ill in September 1940.

  4. Cohn/ Baer family papers

    The material consists mostly of birth and death certificates, permits and travel documents. Included are papers which document the increasingly oppressive measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews. At 628/9 is Martha Cohn's identity card with the conspicuous “J” on the cover denoting Jew and which bears the additional information that she was ‘evacuated' from Berlin on 16 December 1942. At 628/10 is the order from the Amtsgericht, Berlin, that she must adopt the forename ‘Sara' to identify her as a Jew, dated 11 Jan 1939. At 628/11 is an order stamped by the Gestapo that she must leave G...

  5. Jakob Zelnik collection

  6. Edgar Dreyfus: Family papers

    The papers in this collection document in part the lives of a French Jewish family and their experiences during the German occupation.

  7. 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...

  8. Kurt Sabatsky: reports on leading Nazis and incidents of Jewish persecution

    This collection consists of typescript reports about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution. Many of the reports are written in the first person. In the last report (-/23), an account of the author's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen, the author reveals his identity - Kurt Sabatsky, formerly District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library. At -/13 is a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representative...

  9. Siegfried Kessler: Correspondence

    This collection of mostly original correspondence between Siegfried Kessler, a Czech Jewish exile in London, and various organisations and individuals, sheds light on the conditions of Czech Jews in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the war and the processes involved in getting them out.According to an incomplete curriculum vitae at -/20

  10. Joseph Sheldon: account re the liberation of Esterwege concentration camp

    This collection comprises an account by Joseph Sheldon, formerly Jozef Szwarcman, a medical officer holding the rank of Lieutenant in the 1st Polish Armoured Division, of his experiences shortly after the liberation of Esterwege concentration camp, Lower Saxony,and a page torn from a volume which listed details of inmates of that camp.

  11. Anti-Jewish enactments in the Reichsprotektorat

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.It also includes some material on the deportation of Jews from Vienna, Prague and Brünn. In addition there is some reference to the deportation of Gypsies from Berlin and former Czechoslovakia. The papers provide a detailed insight into the logistics of deportation including the appropriation of belongings over the years 1939-1944. Reference is made to the preparation of Theresienstadt as a camp for deported Jews.Correspondents include the Zentralstelle jüdische Auswanderung, Prague; Israelitische Ku...

  12. Copy report of transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk

    This is an apparently authentic certified copy of a report about a transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk, which commenced on 10 November 1941. The author was Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, Meurin. The document is countersigned by Oberwachtmeister der Sch[utzpolizei?] [illegible]. Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city's Jews. The description of the embarkatio...

  13. Wilfrid Israel Papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of Wilfrid Israel's papers consists of copies of original essays, memoranda, private papers etc covering such subjects as the Weimar Republic, the rise of national Socialism, German Communist and Socialist parties and trade unions, the Jewish refugee problem. Also a fairly comprehensive collection of the 'Political Group Papers' (1941-1943) from the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Committee on Reconstruction. The papers in this collection relate to his activities a...

  14. Hans Litten: Correspondence

    This microfilm collection of correspondence of Irmgard Litten contains copy letters to her son whilst in concentration camps Lichtenburg and Dachau; copy correspondence to various authorities including Hitler, Hess and Göring asking for clemency; and some original letters from Hans Litten and various authorities. Most of it is typescript.

  15. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  16. Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

  17. Harry Jarvis: family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz), Bukovina, Ukraine. It is a relatively rare example of material from the German speaking Jewish community of this region and, as such, is valuable evidence of a now effectively extinct era. Item 1617/14 is an accrual which was added on 3.2.2011.

  18. Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend: Archives

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  19. Ronald Roberts collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises the personal papers of Ronnie Roberts (1921-2001), a mixed race Barbadian/German from Mainz who was imprisoned at various civilian internment and labour camps in Germany during the Second World War. After being subjected to racism in Nazi Germany he emigrated to England in 1938/1939 where he failed to make a life for himself. He returned to Germany and after the outbreak of the war was imprisoned at internment camps due to his British subject status (his father was of British nationali...

  20. Dr Bela Berend: Trial Judgement and other papers

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access the digital version of this archiveThis collection contains the personal papers of Dr A.B. Belton, formerly Bela Berend, Rabbi of the Budapest Ghetto, 1944. The papers document, in part, his activities in Hungary during the war; his trial by the Hungarian authorities for war crimes; his involvement with post war libel cases relating to his role as leader of the Jewish Council in Budapest, 1944; his relationship with prominent figures in the United States; his views about Israel and politics in the Middle East.According to a no...