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  1. Linton (Liebermann) family: papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Louis Alexander Linton (formerly Ludwig Alexander Liebermann) and Susan Maria Linton (née Susanne Marie Friedmann), Jewish refugees from Berlin. Louis Linton was advised not to return from a business trip to England due to the anti-Semitic climate in Nazi Germany. His wife and children followed him a few months later in 1937. Susan Linton's father, Leopold Friedmann, died on the journey to Argentina when he and his wife Maria Friedmann fled Nazi-Germany in 1940.Records documenting the Linton family's emigration, internment and new life in Engl...

  2. Max Wolf: correspondence

  3. Ruth Heidemann collection

    This collection contains the papers (photocopies) of the Heidemanns, a Jewish family from Hamburg. Only their daughter Ruth managed to emigrate to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Her parents decided not to join her as they were waiting for visas to emigrate to the United States. They were later deported and perished at Riga concentration camp.

  4. Lasker family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau. The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished.

  6. Wegrzyn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.Wegrzyn family papers including are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emig...

  9. Concentration camp correspondence from various prisoners

    This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at R...

  10. 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.

  11. BARNETT, Maj Benjamin George (b 1912)

    Papers relating to his military service, 1944-1945, principally comprising war diary including maps and photographs, Sep 1944-Jul 1945; copy of report on the liberation of Belsen written for the Director of Military Government by Lt Col R I G Taylor, Officer Commanding, 63 Anti Tank Regt, [1945]; orders relating to the occupation and administration of Belsen, from Brig General Staff of 8 Corps, British Liberation Army, April 1945; report on Belsen by Capt Barker, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63 Anti Tank Regt, Jun 1945; letter to British officers from a group of Czech women prisoners describin...

  12. HART, Lt Cdr Leonard George Richard (1903-1987)

    Papers relating to his service in Germany, 1945-1947, principally comprising British Zone Review vol 1 no 7, published by the Control Commission for Germany, (British Element), Dec 1945; Royal Rupert Times and Garrison News, edited by Hart, Feb 1947; photographs of Belsen concentration camp, 1945. Papers relating to Hart's work as Recreational Libraries Officer, 1966, notably an article on Hart and the RN Library Service cut from Navy News no 141, Mar 1966. Beating the invader and If the invader comes, two printed leaflets advising civilians how they should behave in the event of a German i...

  13. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Manchester Guardian This series comprises the confidential foreign affairs correspondence of W.P. Crozier. Many of the materials are bundles of correspondence and reports sent to Crozier by correspondents. Crozier collected these materials, adding his own notes and materials about the editorial and business affairs of the . Most of the materials are marked confidential or secret. Many have been translated from Hebrew and a small number are in French, German, and Hebrew. The correspondence is largely concerned with the Zionist movement, particularly in Palestine. There are significant materi...

  14. Document collection – Varia.

    For the sake of completeness, this description contains information on the various personal papers, separate archival documents and other material from the “Document collection” of the Wiener Library, too limited in extent to describe separately. The collection constitutes the largest archive of personal papers relative to Jewish refugees from occupied Europe. By searching the database on keywords such as “Belgium”, “Brussels”, “Antwerp” etc. we find a number ‘collections’ related to the Jewish population in Belgium. We firstly note archival material donated by a couple of individuals and/o...

  15. Neumann and Mendel Business and Family papers

    This collection of family papers and business papers comprises several separate deposits, made some time after Luise Neumann's death in the 1980s. This is a good example of a collection of business papers of a former Jewish Company in Germany which was taken over as part of the Nazi aryanisation process, containing a range of records one would expect to see in a business archive as well as documents referring specifically to the persecution of the owners on the grounds of race [1023/1/39 and 1023/1/13]. The collection also contains papers which document the experiences of the family as they...

  16. Derek Gordon Cole collection

    The papers in this collection document the activities of Lieutenant Cole as a guard in a POW camp in Rimini, Italy, in 1946 where elements of the 14th Waffen-SS Galizien Division were held captive; and later in Palestine where he was involved in operations to prevent illegal Jewish immigration and anti-terrorist operations.

  17. Ruth Singer collection

    Various passports and id cards

  18. Felix Nasimow: Correspondence

  19. Lily Freeman collection

  20. NSDAP Gauleitung Westfalen-Nord: circulars and information sheets

    This collection of circulars and information sheets distributed by the regional offices of the NSDAP Westfalen- Nord is evidence of the way in which the Nazi party hierarchy was able to disseminate information and instructions to the regional and area offices. The subjects covered are wide and varied, ranging from orders re the evacuation of women and children; intructions regarding restrictions of Mischlinge and Gypsies; advice on how to deal with enemy propaganda etc.The material has been arranged chronologically, ranging in date from April through to August 1941 with gaps between issues....