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  1. Youth Aliyah: Copy documents re the Hascharah Training Centre, Braunton, Devon

    Account of the Hascharah training centre at Braunton, Devon, consisting of typescript notes, transcripts of letters and copies of letters and other documents with Fred Dunston's annotations22 pages English 

  2. Paula Albersheim: Personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of German Jew Paula Albersheim documenting her preparations for emigration to England in 1939.

  3. Kahn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers and photographs of Seligmann and Alice Kahn, a Jewish family from Heilbronn.

  4. 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.

  5. Joseph Yecheskel Helerman: postcard

    This collection contains a postcard from Joseph Yecheskel Helerman in Bodzanow, Poland, to his brother in London. Helerman refers to the dowry for a bride and to his brother-in-law, Moshe Oved (1885-1958), a London based jeweller and author.

  6. File

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

    New Statesman and Nation. The file includes reports and correspondence concerning economic and labour statistics in Palestine, the continuing immigration of Jewish refugees, continuing violence in Palestine including the Tiberias Massacre, and the proceedings of the Palestine Partition Commission. There is also an account of the activities of Jewish activists and organisations in the United States, interviews with several statesmen about Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state, and several clippings from the

  7. File

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

    This file contains correspondence concerning pogroms in Poland and the liquidation of concentration camps, negotiations for the post-war borders of Russia and Poland, and the transportation of Jewish refugees to Palestine. The file also contains a report on the British search of the Ramat HaKovesh kibbutz, an eyewitness account of public opinion in Germany, and debates about whether newspapers should publish stories about the successful escapes of prisoners of war at the risk of compromising similar escape attempts.

  8. File

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

    This file contains correspondence relating to the Second World War, including the mobilisation of Finnish and Russian forces, German propaganda, British naval intelligence, economic and natural resources in Germany, relations with neutral countries, especially Romania and Scandinavian countries, and the treatment of Jewish refugees by British forces in Palestine. The file includes correspondence from journalists including Marcel Fodor, correspondent in Brussels.

  9. File

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

    Manchester Guardian The file primarily contains correspondence and Crozier's notes relating to domestic affairs, including reports of air raid casualties, circulation of the , food shortages, and relations with Ireland and Irish neutrality. Foreign correspondence concerns reports from French soldiers and other informants in Syria, diplomatic relations with the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, and the Vichy government, Spain's annexation of Tangiers, and Jewish refugees turned away in Palestine.

  10. Additional papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee

    Comprises a minute book, bank statements, cheque books, a card index file, and the Society's fourth report, November 1938

  11. Moses and Wolf Blau: short biographical statements

    It is not known in which context these two original signed statements by Moses Blau and his son Wolf, German Jewish refugees in Amsterdam were made. However the formal presentation and details contained therein suggest that the document was created as part of a process of registration possibly with the Dutch authorities or a Jewish relief organisation.

  12. Hay internment camp, New South Wales, Australia: copy camp magazine

    This collection appears to consist of two separate deposits, the provenance of which is not known. The first item is a copy of the Camp 7 Hay magazine Boomerang. The second is a woodcut image of the camp, dated 1940-1.

  13. Czech and Czech Jewish immigrants in Great Britain: various documents

    Material which documents some of the activities of organisations in Great Britain which were involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era.

  14. Wolf and Marcelle Lemberger: Copy letter

  15. Lothar Nelken: Diaries

    Diaries of Lothar Nelken

  16. Cahn family papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn (the depositor) from England to her father in Mönchen- Gladbach, 1940s. Also included is a copy claim form by Fritz Cahn in Canda for compensation from the city of Mönchen- Gladbach.Sophie's father, Emanuel, died in Theresienstadt in 1942. The children ended up in Canada, USA, UK, and Israel.

  17. Report on the extermination of the Jews in Europe - not dated

    Copy report on the Nazi extermination camps. The facts within the report are allegedly based upon the testimonies of both Jews who witnessed mass killings and SS personnel who were guards at the camp.

  18. Kindertransport questionnaire survey material

    Kindertransport questionnaire survey material . Note that the original forms are closed to the public.An anonymised speadsheet containing extrapolated data from the forms is accessible in the readimng room.Readers need to book a terminal in the reading room to access his material .

  19. Podhorcer family documents

    This collection of family documents consists of official papers such as copy birth, marriage and death certificates of an Austrian Jewish couple, who, it is assumed managed to escape to Great Britain just before the war (certificates declaring the couple's payment of any outstanding debts to the state are dated 1939).

  20. Jewish Board of Deputies' Aliens Committee: minutes and reports

    The material sheds light on the role of the Aliens Committee of the Board of Deputies with respect to the treatment of aliens in Britain in the early 1930s.