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  1. Lisbeth Sokal: Personal papers

  2. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  3. Pauline Howard: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers (photocopies) of Pauline Lilly Howard, a Jewish woman who emigrated to Shanghai with her first husband Herbert Markstein in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions in Germany. After the Second World War she moved to the United States with her second husband, William Howard.Personal papers including school reports; birth, marriage and divorce papers; extract of the Directory of Jewish Refugees; Shanghai Municipal Police census form; identity cards and foreigners' residency certificate; affidavit in lieu of a passport for her emigration to the U.S.; U....

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  7. Anni and Walter Robinson: family photographs

    This collection consists of family photographs and postcards of Anni Robinsohn and her husband Walter Robinsohn, Jewish refugees from Hamburg who emigrated from Nazi Germany to London in the late 1930s.Personal papers including family photographs and postcards, also included are a small metal plaque of Dr Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and a piece of painted stained glass.

  8. Correspondence with Jung, Julius

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence mainly regarding the lending of a minute book of a German Synagogue that had existed in London in the end of the 19th century. Other subjects are Jung’s Library membership and the sudden death of his elder brother.

  9. Correspondence with Nueva Congregacion Israelita de Montevideo

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence with Georg Freund, a Jewish-German refugee, former deputy editor of the conservative Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and since his immigration director of the Boletin Informativo, the newsletter for Montevideo’s community of Jewish exiles. The letters concern the establishment of contact, the exchange of information, and a call for eyewitness accounts from Uruguay-based refugees for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

  10. Correspondence with Hirschberg, Alfred

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents the close association between Hirschberg and The Wiener Library. The various issues addressed include among others: the introduction of Brazilian friends of Hirschberg to the Library; arrangements among Jewish-German refugees for receptions on occasion of Hirschberg’s visits to London; information requests on past political affiliations of certain Germans; the purchase as well as lending of books from The Library. Contained is a photo of family members Hirschbergs (letter August 13, 1958) and some undated letters.

  11. Correspondence with Arbeitskreis 1961

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the establishment of Arbeitskreis 1961, and administrative and financial details of its activities. The latter refers to monthly events, mainly public talks on historical subjects or current affairs, but also film screenings or a guided tour through The Wiener Library (November 14, 1962). Beside letters several minutes of board meetings and invitation cards for events are contained.

  12. Correspondence with Bonn, Moritz Julius

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence concerns an article Bonn had authored for The Wiener Library Bulletin, and the approach of influential individuals in West Germany, including its president Theodor Heuss.

  13. Correspondence with American Jewish Kartell-Convent (KC) Fraternity Inc.

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a meeting of K.C. members in Chicago, an article on the Jewish community in Bentschen (now Zbąszyń, Poland) Alfred Wiener contributed to a K.C. jubilee publication, and birthday notes for Frederick S. Aron, Bruno Weil, and the late Ludwig Holländer. Contained is an issue of the American Jewish K.C. Fraternity Bulletin including a brief article by Wiener on Bruno Weil.

  14. Correspondence with Cohn, George

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding numerous restitution related information requests which concerned: the ghetto in Riga; the emigration of Jewish-German refugees to Turkey 1933-1936; the Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellen Organisation (NSBO); fatigue duty for Jews in Hungary; deportations from Berlin; the ghetto in Chernivtsi; internment camps in Italy; the ghetto in Belzyce; special terms on gold coins in Austria; a Jewish asylum in Breslau; a hospital for children in Prague; the legal situation in Danzig after the German occupation; a case of Rassenschande in Frankfurt am Main; the situation of...

  15. Valerie Forman collection

  16. Central British Fund: Reports and other papers re orphans

    These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

  17. Reports and correspondence re Gurs and other French concentration camps

    These papers offer some insight into conditions in French internment camps during the 1940s, in particular in Gurs. Most of the reports and correspondence are contemporary copies or transcriptions.

  18. Buchwald family: papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Buchwald family, Jewish refugees from Bratislava who emigrated in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions. Family papers including correspondence with Violet Bonham Carter regarding sponsorship for Villiam to enable him to leave Bratislava (1938-1939); Villiam’s school reports from schools in Bratislava and Salford grammar school; Katerina Buchwald's National Health and Pensions Insurance Contributions Card (1939); testimonials for Max and Irma Freud and Mr S Neurath; post-war correspondence with family (Katerina’s sister Magda) and friends, and ...

  19. Berta Einstein: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Jewish refugee Berta Einstein who emigrated to London in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War.Personal papers Including birth certificate, qualifications, work references, letter of recommendation by the Jewish Religious Committee of Memmingen, correspondence with the Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees regarding her application for work in England, list of items taken to England, medical certificate as well as photographs and correspondence with family and friends.

  20. Correspondence with Bergman, George Francis Jack

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the consignment and discussion of Bergman’s research work and source material. This concerns particularly a typescript on Jewish-German mountaineers, and large materials (including own diaries) on the fate of Jewish refugees in French internment camps in North Africa. Furthermore, the situation of Jews in Australia as well as the malfunctioning practice of restitution claims in France are briefly addressed