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  1. Berlin Medical Unions: various papers

    This collection consists of papers which document the activities of the Berlin medical unions, Berliner Aerztlichen Standesvereine, in general and that of the Aerztlicher Standesverein der Koenigstadt zu Berlin in particular. Note that it appears that the latter organisation ceased to exist on 31 March 1936 according to a note at the end of the last set of minutes (1435/1/3).

  2. Herbert Engel: Copy personal papers

    These copy documents provide a rare insight into the effects of Nazism and its demise on the German population.

  3. Correspondence from Gurs concentration camp, France

    These two postcards offer a brief insight into conditions at Gurs internment camp experienced by Berta Kahnheimer, a German (?) Jewish inmate.

  4. Gestapo Sonderkommando, Lehrter Strasse Prison: Admissions book

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilmed copy document was produced when the original was still at the Royal United Service Institution, London. It is now at the Imperial War Museum.A note which precedes the list, dated 19 July 1945, from the director of the Lehrterstrasse prison, after it was taken over by the British Military authorities, states that he found the list and that it contains the names of those allegedly involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. He also states that those who were transported to...

  5. Sergeant C.C. Warmer: Material re Bergen Belsen

    Documents and photographic material showing Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation.

  6. Gossels family: Copy correspondence

    Collection of correspondence between members of the Gossels family who emigrated to Holland during the Second World War and certificates of incarceration at Auschwitz concentration camp for the parents Sally and Malchen Gossels (1662/1).

  7. Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office: news digest for Germany and Austria

    This collection of news digests was compiled by editors at the German and Austrian Division of the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office. The information contained within was obtained from numerous European sources for internal consumption. Subjects include reports on the Bergen Belsen trial and the Nuremberg War Crimes trialand other war crimes trials. Also reports on the social economic and political conditions of Germany and Austria in the immediate post-war years.The frequency of these extant copies varies. They begin daily, become weekly, then more intermittent with a...

  8. Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit: Organisational papers

    This collection of papers documenting the activities of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit, the former's operational arm, consists of numerous separate deposits, the details of which were never recorded. Of particular interest are the following: a volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries; and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration camp inmates.The original order in which the collections were listed has been retained.

  9. Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence

    This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Lotte Oppenheim regarding the tracing of her mother, Berta Fraustaedter, after the Second World War. Berta Fraustaedter was a Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp.Included are correspondence with the Jewish Refugee Committee, the International Committee of the Red Cross and friends regarding arrangements for her mother to move to the UK.

  10. Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

    Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.German 9 pages 

  11. Dr Walter Manfred Bergmann: Family papers

    This collection of papers consists of correspondence from the Reichsärztekammer and government regulations relating to the aryanisation of the medical profession in Nazi Germany. In addition the collection contains identity cards for Walter Bergmann, his wife and two young children which carry the distinctive 'J' designating their Jewish ethnicity.

  12. Papers of Mrs Cissi Z. Rosenfelder

    The papers include lists of children from Germany, their date of birth, and the names and addresses of those offering a home, 1938-9; correspondence, photographs and case papers for individual children and young women from Germany, correspondence with refugee committees, including the German Jewish Aid Committee, 1938-9; letter from the Federation of Woman Zionists about running Whittingehame House as a training centre, 1939; minutes of the Whittingehame House general meeting, 1939; Movement for the Care of Children from Germany guarantee forms, memorandum of information, casework letter, l...

  13. Copy papers re Paul Dickopf

    This collection consists of copy papers which document the life and career of Paul Dickopf, formerly SS Unterscharfführer, and later head of Interpol. The papers consist of copy records of Dickopf's war-time career including items such as his cv, written in his own hand, and evidence on wanted lists of the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt that he was sought by the Nazi authorities.

  14. Council for German Jewry: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection consists of correspondence of the Council for German Jewry on the following subjects: dismissals of Jewish staff at Göttingen University (608/1); Austrian Jewish refugees from the Burgenland; various synagogue congregations in Germany (608/2); emergency relief organisation for German scientists abroad (608/3). Also a report by the Jewish Agency for Palestine re emigration, 1933-1934 (608/4)

  15. Primo Levi biography: papers

    The majority of the material is secondary. A wide range of publications and unpublished articles on all aspects of his life and work is represented here. In addition, a unique collection of transcript interviews with friends, colleagues and relatives, and Primo Levi, himself, provides a special dimension to the collection.

  16. Heinemann and Epstein family collection

    This collection contains photographs and a family tree relating to the Epstein family, a large Jewish family from Frankfurt.Photographs, family tree, also included is a notebook of poetry and correspondence addressed to Adelheid Heinemann who fled Nazi Germany with her husband, son and mother

  18. Kommandostab RFSS Nachrichtenkompagnie, Eastern Region: Reports

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of copy reports amassed by the Kommandostab RFSS Nachrichtenkompagnie emanate from regional HSSuPF (Higher SS and police leaders) from headquarters in North, South and Central Russia. They cover the period July to October 1941 and document the actions and movements of various battalions and regiments either linked with or part of the notorious Einsatzgruppen. In particular they provide details of the murder of Jews, partisans and other civilians

  19. Richard and Rena Voss collection

    Personal papers, in particular vital records and identity documents, of members of the Voss and Mendel-Lion families.

  20. Clive Teddern: The Hyphen News and other papers

    The bulk of the collection is materials produced in Clive Teddern’s role as editor of The Hyphen News. Also included are his memoirs and papers of the Otto Hirsch Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation.