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  1. 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.

  3. Ernst Fraenkel: Academic correspondence

    Letters to Ernst Fraenkel on his article “Der Beitrag der deutschen Juden auf wirtschaftlichem Gebiet", Franz Böhm and Walter Dirks (eds.), Judentum: Schicksal, Wesen und Gegenwart (Franz Steiner Verlag: Wiesbaden, 1965), pp. 552-600.

  4. Papers of Chief Rabbi Sir Israel Brodie

    Newspaper cuttings, 1948-62 (2 vols.), together with journals of pastoral tours of Australia and New Zealand kept by Mrs Brodie, 1951-2 and 1961-2, and material relating to visits to Israel, Ireland, South Africa and the United States of America (3 vols.). Photographs, including portraits, 1950s-70s. Personal papers, 1918-68; papers of the Conference of European Rabbis and Associated Religious Organisations, 1967-8; drafts and typescripts of sermons, addresses and articles, 1924-63.

  5. Josephine Winter: Papers re emigration

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This collection comprises 2 deposits: correspondence between a commercial counsellor at the British Embassy, Berlin, and the secretary of the North of England local industrial development organisation; and the papers of Josephine Winter and her husband, Austrian Jewish immigrants to Great Britain.Correspondence between a commercial counsellor at the British Embassy and the secretary of the North of England local industrial development organisation, re Jewish immigration to Great Britain23 fram...

  6. Adolf Heilberg: Pro Memoria

    This collection comprises the personal account of the experiences of the distinguished German Jewish lawyer, Adolf Heilberg, from the time he was first persecuted by the Nazis in March 1933.

  7. Bern Brent and Otto Bernstein: Reminiscences

    This series of reminiscences provide an insight into the lives of a German Jewish family from the end of the 19th century until the aftermath of the Second World War.Most of them recount the experiences of Otto Bernstein, the father of the depositor, who describes life growing up in late 19th century Elbersfeld and Kassel (-/1); life in turn of the century Germany and during the First World War(-/2) and his experiences as an inmate of Theresienstadt.(-/3). Bern Brent, the depositor, provides us with an account of his experiences on the ship, the 'Dunera', bringing refugees from Europe to Au...

  8. Personal account of the life of Otto Hirsch

    This personal account of the life of Otto Hirsch was intended to be included in the WL eyewitness testimonies series. It retains the original reference number (PI.d. No. 362) but for some unknown reason was not integrated into this series.

  9. Else Löwy-Leseritz collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Else Löwy-Leseritz, a Jewish medical doctor from North Rhine-Westphalia, who was murdered in the Holocaust.Photocopies of the medical qualifications and work references of Else Löwy-Leseritz.

  10. Leslie Dockray collection

    Correspondence between stamp collectors relating the life changes which befell a German collector with Jewish antecedents between 1934 and 1959

  11. German Jewish youth organisations: various papers

    The papers in this collection relate mainly to the German Jewish youth organisation, deutsch- Jüdischer Wanderbund The papers consist of newsletters (740/1/1-2), which shed some light on the movement's ideological position, and ephemera.In addition there are papers of two other organisations: Arbeitskreis religiöser Jugend für den Frieden and Jüdische Jugendberatung Hamburg

  12. Stiftung Hilfswerk 20. Juli 1944: Various papers

    This collection contains circular letters and papers celebrating the 75th birthday of Emil Henk; also a death notice for the same

  13. Margot Hirschmann papers relating to Palestine and Orient Lloyd Travel Bureau

    This collection contains papers relating to the business of Palestine & Orient Lloyd G.m.b.H travel bureau.Papers including: a work reference for Margot Hirschmann who worked at the German branch in Berlin until she herself emigrated; copies of advertising, extracts of minutes of meeting regarding pricing of passenger tickets; as well as correspondence with the Central Zionist Archives and American Joint Distribution Committee regarding emigration permits for South America. Also included is correspondence by Susanne Dyke commenting on the caption of a photograph showing people queuing a...

  14. George and Henni Lesley: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish couple, George and Henni Lesley. 

  15. 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...

  16. Schlesinger family documents

    This collection documents the experiences of a Jewish family in Vienna before and just after the Nazi occupation. This includes official correspondence which highlights the increasingly Anti-semitic measures taken by the authorities.The collection also contains a long letter from Jewish friends of the family, who managed to survive the war years in Hungary. This is a rare and valuable account of the Hungarian Jewish experience during the Nazi era, containing descriptions of life in hiding, deportations, massacres by Hungarian Nazis and life in Budapest in the immediate postwar years.

  17. 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. 

  18. Antisemitism in Denmark: Copy papers

    The papers in this collection relate to the trial of 6 Danish Nazis for anti-semitic libel, in Copenhagen in 1937. The defendants include Ernst Lemvigh Müller, Niels Olsen, editor of the National-Socialistiks Maanedhaefte, Aag Henning Andersen, Nannestad Møoller, Valdemar Jensen, editor of Stormen and Betty Henning. The longest sentence was 80 days. The collection includes the transcript of a declaration by the Chief Rabbi of Denmark, which takes the form of written answers to questions about the content of the anti-semitic publications produced by the defendants

  19. Political Warfare Executive: Airborne leafletes, French Allied

    Two copies of the French “Revue de la Presse Libre” No. 45 dropped during in the nights 4./5. April until 15./16. April 1943.French 

  20. Papers of Rabbi Bruno Italiener

    News-cuttings from the German and English press, c.1933-56; sermons, articles and addresses by Italiener, including 'Baeck and Buber', 'Rembrants Gemalde', 'Frauengestalten der Bibel', 'Thoughts of a Jew on Dante's Divine Comedy' and 'Unity and Development'; papers for a course led by Dr Italiener in 1928; typescript article 'Jonathan Balter, 1928-49' and a memorandum, in German, to Presidium and Rabbinate of the Association of Temples by Hans Bloch, 24 May 1933. Correspondence including family letters, 1939; correspondence with Dr Hamburger, 1936; two letters on Dr Leo Baeck's book, 1951, ...