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  1. Alice Bloemendahl: Theresienstadt eyewitness account

    This collection contains an eyewitness testimony relating to Terezin concentration camp by Alice Bloemendahl.This is the only surviving letter that she sent to friends in Hamburg whilst she was at Terezin. Bloemendahl describes the cultural, artistic and intellectual activities as well as improvements to the camp implemented by the Jewish inmates.

  2. John Robertson collection

  3. The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain: Board minutes and papers

    Minutes and correspondence of the board of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, covering such subjects as restitution claims; social work; the newsletter: AJR Information; cultural activities; membership of the organisation 

  4. Lilli Goldwerth collection

  5. Max Landenberger: copy documents re property in Nüremberg

    This collection of copy documents is an example of the way in which the Nazis forcibly appropriated Jewish property under the guise of a legitimate transaction into which both parties freely entered.

  6. Copies of papers relating to the Jewish community in Liverpool

    The papers contain: copy of part of a letter from [Samuel Nathan ?], Durham, addressed to Kate, 26 Dec 1841, with typescript transcript of the whole letter; typescript article `Liverpool Jewry in the eighteenth century'; copies of maps of Liverpool, 1765, 1785 and 1803; copy of a letter from M.Greenberg, Cape Colony, addressed to Walter, describing his experiences in South Africa, 14 Apr 1898; copy of an account [by M.Greenberg ?] of his journey to and experiences in South Africa, 1895-6; copy of a biography, 1943, and two obituaries, 1950, of Moss Greenberg.

  7. Josef Rosenbaum collection

    Correspondence and identity documents

  8. Papers of Cyril Wernick

    Jewish Chronicle Prayers for evening service, in Hebrew, written on official receipt forms from Singapore criminal prison; invitation to the dedication service of Synagogue Jacob, Changi Gaol, 26 Aug 1944; photographs of Cyril Wernick, his wife and Wernick's father; letter to Wernick's mother on his death; photographs of temporary and permanent tombstones of Wernick in Kasimode Jewish Cemetery, Madras. Two articles from the about Jewish prisoners of war in Japanese camps, 1945 and 1948.

  9. Hermann and Malvine Rares: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Austro-Hungarian Jewish couple, Hermann and Malvine Rares.

  10. Franz Szell: correspondence re Alfred Rosenberg

    The letter seeks to demonstrate the racially mixed background of one of the Nazis most virulent exponents of Nazi racial ideology. The collection also includes copies (in several languages) of a letter addressed to Goering, Göbbels and von Neurath, amongst others, containing essentially the same information as in the open letter (936/2). The last letter is addressed to the Justice Minister, Trygre Lie, Oslo, and in addition to the information contained in the above, contains details of the author's own experiences.

  11. Office of Reichsführer SS: Correspondence and papers

    This collection of correspondence mostly emanating from the office of Reichsführer SS deals in the main with administrative matters. It includes 2 original letters from Reichsführer SS, Himmler (1144/1/14; -/23). It also includes an incomplete set of an in-house information sheet providing instructions to SS members on a variety of matters such as dress protocol for visits to concentration camps by SS members (1144/2/4); qualification for wearing the 'Death's Head' ring of the SS (1144/2/2); and orders forbidding membership of clubs deemed inappropriate.

  12. Report of anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania

    Report entitled ‘Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania' including lists of names, statistics, press reports, official communiqués, notices and proclamations relating to the anti-Jewish pogroms in that region of Libya, from 4-7 November 1945.English Typescript 31 pagesAccording to Renzo de Felice this is the English language version of the Libyan report Itumulti anti-ebraici in Tripolitania 4, 5, 6 e 7 Novembre 1945, issued by the Community of Libya on December 31 1945, entitled Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania and located at the Central Zionist Archive, Jerusalem (Ref. CZA/S/25/6457). The repo...

  13. Uhlman family

    Copies of papers including a transcript of two documents, with translation, granting certain rights and privileges to David Uhlman, Hofaktor of the Duke of Wrttemberg, 6 Jul 1747; a letter, in German, in Hebrew script, from H.Uhlman to his children Simon and Lehna, 5 Oct 1867, together with a transcription; discharge of Simon Uhlman from the American army, 1863; photographs of Fred Uhlman and friends, in military uniform, 1920-1; a portrait of Isak Elsas, the great grandfather of Fred Uhlman; transcript of gravestone inscriptions of Isak and Rosle Elsas, Jewish cemetery, Hochberg; `A man an...

  14. Jakob Zelnik collection

  15. Eric Colebeck stamp collection

    A collection of stamps commemorating the Holocaust arranged into 10 volumes covering the following subjects: resistance and anti-nazi fighters who showed outstanding courage; events such as the massacre at Lidice; martyred cities; concentration camps; special memorials and museums. All of the material is accompanied by detailed descriptions.

  16. Breendonk Camp, Belgium: Copy report by Headquarters 21 Army

    Report on Breendonk concentration camp containing the following sub-headings: atrocities committed against the civilian population of Breendonk; details of life and conditions within the camp; particulars of Germans and collaborators mentioned in the report; appendices including statements and summaries of statements made by former inmates.English 79 pagesThe front page of the report describes the author as 'Headquarters 21 Army Group' and bears the date, 1944. It has been annotated 'secret' and there appears to be an archival reference number. A note accompanying the report has the followi...

  17. Archives of the West London Synagogue of British Jews

    The archive is composed of correspondence and synagogue papers, 1841-1942, with the principal run of general correspondence files starting in 1863. For the period 1911-23 the files have been sorted alphabetically as well as annually. Earlier correspondence relates to synagogue matters including the prayer books, appeals, the organ, arrears of subscriptions, etc. There are files of applications for membership or seats, copies of the treasurer's reports and financial statements, a lease of synagogue property and papers relating to the appointment of ministers.

  18. Moritz Steinhäuser: Personal papers

    Personal papers pertaining to the imprisonment of Moritz Steinhäuser in Buchenwald concentration camp, the preparation of his emigration, and his life as refugee in Shanghai.

  19. Copies of papers relating to Rabbi Chaim Zundel Maccoby

    Copies of letters, 1885-1957, from Lithuania, Russia and Paris; correspondents include Isaac Rabinowitz, Jacob Laustein, J.Goldberg, H.E.Luxemburg, J.Arlowitz, Dr H.Adler, the Hambro Synagogue and the Mountain Breeze House, Mount Freedom, New Jersey; other papers, including a certificate permitting the Kamenitzer Maggid to teach Jewish religious subjects, 1884, receipts, telegrams, a naturalisation certificate, together with extracts from newspapers and magazines with information on the Kamenitzer Maggid.

  20. Walter Rauff: Personal papers and material documenting his war time activities

    The papers in this collection are part of the background material which was used by John Ware for his documentary ‘Colonel Rauff's Refuge', Granada, World in Action, 8.8.1983, 8.30 pm.