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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Latvian
Language of Description: Ukrainian
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Ernst Levy Collection

    The collection consists of official and private documents belonging to members of the Levy and Thilo families, including their correspondence and photographs. It provides insights into the lives of a German-Jewish and a German-British family before, during and after the Nazi era. Although containing materials from several individuals, the majority of the papers pertains to Ernst Moritz Levy and his wife Helen Levy-Thilo. Related to the lives of the protagonists, this exceptionally rich collection covers a wide range of subjects, including among others: German immigrants in the North of Engl...

  2. Hitler's foreign policy: two articles

    With each article is a covering letter from the author in London to the publisher (?), Max Sievers, in Brussels. The first covering letter makes mention of the fact that the author wishes to remain anonymous in the interests of the security of his parents, who were still living in Germany.

  3. Passover service, Munich Enclave

    Copy translation of Passover service, Munich enclave. Pages 1 to 17 are translated from Hebrew and the additional 4 pages are translated from Yiddish (15 Apr 1946-16 Apr 1946) copy ndSet by I. D. Sheinsohn

  4. Copy letter re conditions at Drancy

    This copy letter re conditions in Drancy during the Nazi era was enclosed with an account of life in Drancy called There by the Grace of God by the depositor, A.R. Thomas. The latter is now housed with the Unpublished Memoirs, Number 4101. The letter, which is addressed to Serge Klarsfeld, the prominent Nazi hunter, is signed by five former British merchant navy seamen who were prisoners at Drancy. The purpose of the letter is to offer support to Klarsfeld in his prosecution of Paul Touvier, a former member of the regime at Drancy.

  5. Account of Jewish doctors in Frankfurt am Main

    This copy account of Jewish doctors in Frankfurt am Main provides biographical details on some of the city's most prominent Jewish doctors.

  6. British Movement material

    Leaflets containing constitution and application form 

  7. 'You ask me why I write poems'

    A German version of this short essay describing the author's motivation for writing poetry occurs as an afterword in German in the book 'Du fragst mich, warum ich Gedichte Schreibe', Anne Ranasinghe, Maro Verlag, 1944.

  8. Primo Levi material- additional

    Additional material donated by ian Thomson re his biography of Primo Levi

  9. Deutsche bank: Papers re blocked accounts

    Circulars from the Deutsche Bank re blocked accounts 

  10. Memorial publication in honour of Serge Katzmann - no date

    This memorial publication consists of drawings and cartoons by Serge Katzmann and a short script about the founding of North Holmwood Boys' Club by the depositor's father.

  11. Leopold Danziger collection

    Red Cross letters from father in Berlin  to children in UK, 1940s

  12. Report of anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania

    Report entitled ‘Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania' including lists of names, statistics, press reports, official communiqués, notices and proclamations relating to the anti-Jewish pogroms in that region of Libya, from 4-7 November 1945.English Typescript 31 pagesAccording to Renzo de Felice this is the English language version of the Libyan report Itumulti anti-ebraici in Tripolitania 4, 5, 6 e 7 Novembre 1945, issued by the Community of Libya on December 31 1945, entitled Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania and located at the Central Zionist Archive, Jerusalem (Ref. CZA/S/25/6457). The repo...

  13. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg: Letter re Spear family

    Copy letter from Bernhard Rolle of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg, to Hans Spear of Enfield Middlesex re the fate of his familyGerman 

  14. Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan

    Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan re anti-state utterances, AmsterdamAuthor unknown German I page 

  15. Berta Haas nee Baer: family documents

    Claim form for purchase of grave plot at Karlsruhe Jewish cemetery, from Julius Haas (1904); copy official documentation including a letter from the local mayor informing Berta Haas of her compulsory name change- to include ‘Sara' (1938) 

  16. Max Sanders: personal papers

    This collection consists of mostly original personal papers of Max Sander, a German Jew, who apparently came to Great Britain in 1939 and, according to an unidentified note died, in London in 1979. Little more is known about the subject beyond the following few details gleaned from the papers themselves.

  17. Chances of surviving a German concentration camp: report

    This copy report on Jewish resistance and survival in concentration camps poses a counter argument to Bruno Bettleheim's contention that camp experience created an infantile passive response, suggesting instead that inmates developed a variety of ways of resistance. This report was written in his capacity as an employee of the Dutch Sociologisch Instituut and is essentially a programme for research replete with rationale and methodology, also including a pro forma letter to authors of eyewitness testimonies seeking permission to use their accounts. Several parts of this text subsequently ap...

  18. Stiftung Hilfswerk 20. Juli 1944: Various papers

    This collection contains circular letters and papers celebrating the 75th birthday of Emil Henk; also a death notice for the same

  19. Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence

    Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence to the donor's aunt, Greta, in August 1942 just prior to deportation to Terezin; includes transcriptions, translations and a copy photograph

  20. George Deutsch: family papers

    This collection contains a set of Red Cross letters between members of the Deutsch family in London and Vienna respectively from 1940 to 1943. Also included is an undated postcard.