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  1. Gerd Ledermann: letter regarding life in Nepal

    This collection contains a letter of a former Kindertransportee Gerd Ledermann reflecting on his new life in Nepal between 1986 and 1989.

  2. Gerd Ramm collection

    This collection comprises testimonies from former hidden Jews who survived the war thanks to the efforts of Gerd Ramm; also contained is covering correspondence.

  3. Gerda Mayer: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Gerda Mayer, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who came to England on a Kindertransport, whilst most of her family perished in the Holocaust. Personal papers including letters from family and friends (photocopies); copy of 'The emigrants', a compilation of translated letters sent to Gerda from her parents in Czechoslovakia; Johanna Travnicek's application for compensation under the Vertriebenenzuwendungsgesetz 1994; photographs; family trees; correspondence mainly between Gerda Mayer and the family of her rescuer Trevor Chadwick regarding t...

  4. Gerda Nabe: School project

    This original school project documents a year of Hitler's rule in a series of compositions illustrated by photographs from newspapers and drawings. Produced by Gerda Nabe in 1935, it demonstrates the extent to which devotion to the nazi party and to its leader permeated German society, even to the level of school children. The project begins by reporting the elections in Saarland, when the residents chose to revert back to Germany again and provides a history of the region and its people. It goes on to commemorate the deaths of fallen nazi 'heroes'. It then marks the date that Hitler became...

  5. Gerda Sainer Collection

    The Sainer Papers are an accumulation of family papers from Gerda Sainer's mother and her uncle Eric Federmann in the US. The collection includes documents on family history which were created and collected by Gerda's father Paul and uncle Erich (later Eric) for the Federmann side and her mother (Eve, later Liebert) for the Kroner side. The oldest documents in the collection date from the early 1800s and confirm the official adoption of the surnames Federmann and Kroner. The collection also includes wartime correspondence, from Paul Federmann in Berlin and his brother Eric in the US and it ...

  6. Gerhard Goldbaum: Copy papers

    Gerhard Goldbaum: Copy papers re Primo Levi 

  7. 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

  8. Gerhart Riegner : Correspondence

    Collection of letters and postcards found within the pages of books from the Gerhart Riegner library, which was bequeathed to the Wiener Library in 2002.

  9. German army atrocities: report

  10. German Confessional Church: Instructions re racial origins

    This copy correspondence of the directorate of the German Confessional Church was sent to Alfred Wiener from Pastor Niemoeller with a letter dated 9 September 1957 (1273/3).

  11. German election material

    The collection consists of election material covering the era of the Weimar Republic, especially the last years. There are many flyers from the NSDAP, but also other parties, like the Zentrum, the SPD and the KPD.

  12. German Evangelical Church: leaflet and letter

    This is a leaflet from the leadership of the German Evangelical church to their churches, congregations and communities. denying accusations of collusion with enemies of the Nazi state: "We solemnly protest before God against (the accusation). We have a clear conscience and are ready to render account of ourselves. We stand by our word: we do not want to be a place of refuge for the politically disaffected..."

  13. German Feldpost letters and photograph of Wehrmacht soldier

    Various letters, including personal correspondence and Feldpost letters. Envelopes with stamps showing Adolf Hitler. One envelope is a folded map, presumably showing a part of Russia. Correspondence includes among others announcement of death of a young German soldier at Stalingrad and a thank you letter of another soldier. The latter contains a photograph of this Wehrmacht-soldier in Russia with handwritten caption on the verso.

  14. German Foreign Office: correspondence re Jews in Slovakia

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilmed collection of correspondence and papers re the fate of Jews in Slovakia mostly dates after the Slovak National Uprising, which took place between August and October 1944, and included a relatively high percentage of Jews. It consists mainly of correspondence between the German Foreign and Security offices in Berlin and representatives of the regime in Pressburg (Bratislava). Included are letters from Obersturmbannführer Eichmann.

  15. German Government: Holocaust Memorial day papers

    This collection consists of various papers, mostly speech transcripts from the German president and chancellor on Holocaust Memorial Day, 2000.

  16. German information centre

    This collection comprises various papers relating to Holocaust remembrance and compensation to victims, which were collated by the German Information Centre. Copies in German and English of each of the papers are included.

  17. German Jehova's Witnesses: leaflets

  18. German Jewish artists: exhibition catalogue

    German Jewish artists: exhibition catalogue 

  19. German Jewish doctors: List of suicides/ murdered

    List of German Jewish doctors who either committed suicide or were murdered between 1933 and 1939.

  20. German Jewish families: various copy papers

    This collection of copy documentation relates mainly to the Mecklenburg family. Also included are smaller collections from other German Jewish emigre families.