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Language of Description: Czech
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  2. Netherlands: Copy plea for help

    Copy of a letter addressed to Princess Juliana asking for help for her 8 year old son. She and her husband were ordered to leave the country. Her husband had been in protective custody for 7 months and the evacuation transport for which they had registered would not accept children under 10.German 2 pagesThe annotation PIIIi suggests that it may have been intended for the Wiener Library Eyewitness Testimonies series. The latter reference appears to have replaced the previous: B.262.

  3. Maria Nermi-Egounoff, Hungarian opera singer: copy documents

    This miscellaneous collection of copy documentation consists of a cv of Maria Nermi- Egounoff, replete with reviews from various newspapers of her work; short biographies of British residents of Hungarian extraction who were apparently antisemitic [how they were known to the depositor is not made clear]; copy newspaper articles and scribbled biographical notes.

  4. Ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe: copy secret report for Einsatzgruppe A

    It appears to be a copy extract from part of a chapter entitled Juden, which itself is part of an unidentified secret report for the attention of Einsatzgruppe A. It describes the situation of Jews in Eastern Europe and the measures taken/ to be taken to rid the region of them. It makes particular reference to Estonia and Belorussia.

  6. Finanzamt, Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Copy notification re levy on Jewish capital

    Copy notification from the Finanzamt, Berlin-Wilmersdorf re financial levy on Jewish capital 

  7. Jewish theatre in England: Theatre programmes and other papers

    Collection of theatre programmes advertising productions on a Jewish theme by British Jewish players and theatre groups, some of which are for Jewish causes. Included are 2 photographs depicting the actors in theatrical poses. 

  8. Notgeld collection

    Notgeld collection; also covering letter 

  9. German Jehova's Witnesses: leaflets

  10. Brussels Relief Committee: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfim collection of miscellaneous reports and papers documents the fate of Belgian Jewry during WWII.Belgian Information Center: Information regarding radio broadcasts on 16 and 17 July 1942, frames 1-6American Joint Distribution Committee publication: Liste des Israelites liberés de Camps d'Allemagne et arrives en Belgique, 31 July 1946, frames 7-27Typed extract from the 'Bulletin d'information No. 3 du conseil des Association Juives de Belgique': Manifestation Publique de Reconnaissance au ...

  11. George Rosney papers

    This collection contains family correspondence of George Rosney including letters received by him in England from his parents in Karlsruhe and later Stuttgart prior to their deportation to Terezin. Also included is correspondence from various other individuals to George; a separate set including detailed account of George's impressions of Germany in the imediate aftermath of the war. In addition there is a set of correspondence received and copy outgoing of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a cousin resident in the USA, which documents the efforts made to extricate Carl and Lise Rosenfeld from Germany.

  12. Liberation of the concentration camps: Copy excerpts from interviews and other papers

    The accounts of liberation from the concentration camps (-/1) are more often than not unsourced. The utterances of leading Nazis (-/2) are extracted from published sources.

  15. Erich Berges: Report re experiences in concentration camps

    This report describes conditions in Buchenwald then Mauthausen for this former prisoner. The collection also includes a handwritten summary of the contents in English.

  16. Gisela Nathan collection

    Gisela Nathan: correspondence

  18. Kristallnacht: Miscellaneous extracts and articles

    This collection consists of manuscript and typescript extracts of contemporary newspaper articles about Reichskristallnacht, and unidentified letters and notes about the same. It appears to be an artificial collection.

  19. Baldur von Schirach: texts from various speeches

    Copy transcriptions of speeches dealing mainly with youth in Nazi Germany. Each speech was subsequently checked and edited by Mia Thiel Hansen in the employ of the BBC on 19 November 1945. An original certificate of authentication signed by Mia Thiel Hansen is enclosed with each speech.

  20. Letter of unidentified Holocaust survivor

    Letter written by a former resident of Prague and inmate of Theresienstadt who emigrated to Canada.