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Country: United Kingdom
  1. Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife

    Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife during the Nazi era including an account of their experiences in their home town of Dürkheim, Württemberg, in 1933, when the Nazis came to power; 1934 at the time of the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Kristallnacht; conditions in Gurs Concentration Camp, Pyrenees, France; conditions in Camp du Recebedon, near Toulouse and a slave labour camp in Villemur, FranceGerman 15 pages 

  2. Israel - home of hope

  3. Josef Weisz: copy papers

    They consist of statements and correspondence of Josef Weisz relating to the time he spent as an inmate in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen concentration camps.

  4. Copy correspondence re post war Jewish Relief

    Copy correspondence between the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad re the provision of relief parcels for non-Jewish Hamburg residentsEnglish 2 items 

  5. August Grüber: report re Dachau

    Report of conditions in Dachau concentration camp, giving a classification of prisoners in the camp also including mention of cabaret evenings replete with reference to jokes about conditions.German 1 page 

  6. Personal papers of Helga Lewin (née Krebs) relating to her compensation claims

    The papers in this collection document the attempts made by Helga Lewin to gain compensation for suffering caused by the Nazi regime. They include settlements and decisions made by the Entschädigungsamt, Berlin and the Berlin district court along with affidavits and numerous expert witness statements.

  7. Copy correspondence from girl re life in Vienna

    They are mirror image typescript mimeographed transcriptions, the majority of which are copy letters from Leni, the 12 year old girl. In addition to the above there is an (apparently unrelated) unidentified mirror image mimeographed manuscript memo re tax allowances.

  8. Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit: Organisational papers

    This collection of papers documenting the activities of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit, the former's operational arm, consists of numerous separate deposits, the details of which were never recorded. Of particular interest are the following: a volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries; and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration camp inmates.The original order in which the collections were listed has been retained.

  9. Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: Archives

    This collection is held at the Wiener Library on microfilm.

  10. NSDAP Main Archive

    The Hauptarchiv was set up primarily as a depository for source material on which historians of the future would draw to write the history of the party. Its emphasis, therefore, lay on the years between 1919 and 1933. Material going back as far as 1890 was collected, however, to encompass the political and ideological forerunners of National Socialism, and although the spotlight was on the party itself, considerable importance was attached to parallel nationalist “voelkisch” movements and political opponents – for example, the entire files of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei were taken ove...

  11. World Jewish Congress: Central files

    Central Files consists of 103 boxes (41.2 linear feet) containing history of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), especially prior to 1940. The series includes correspondence and miscellaneous other materials of WJC leaders, together with minutes and records of conferences and committee meetings. The series name, “Central Files”, was adopted from an existing WJC series consisting of executive files and records from conferences and committees. Central Files includes material unrelated to any one specific department. For more material on specific departments see Series B through G.Spanning the ye...

  12. Last train to tomorrow

  13. International Committee of the Red Cross: G59 Israelites

    This collection is a microfilm copy of material owned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (G59). The creator was the Commission des Prisoniers, Internés et Civils (Commission PIC) The records pertain to the fate of European Jewry predominantly during the Nazi era. There follows an overview of the 13 sub-series with the original reference number, title and current microfilm reel number.\ G59/0: Dossiers Bachmann, Livre blanc, Exo (Extrème-Orient) 1942-1946, 4 bundles Reel 2This sub-series was created outside the original framework and retrospectively attributed to G59. Most of t...