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

  2. 'Remembering the Future' opening address

    This collection contains a transcript of the opening address delivered by Elizabeth Maxwell on the occasion of the 22nd Annual Scholars' Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, 1 March 1992.

  3. Antisemitism in Greece: reports

    The letters and postcards have been photocopied on to A3 paper, sometimes 4 sheets at a time. There are 13 sheets.

  5. Polizeipräsident, Leipzig: copy letter

    Copy letter from the Polizeipräsident, Leipzig, to an unidentified family, giving them notice to leave by authority of a police order dated 22 August 1938German 

  6. Emigration possibilities for Jews in the Caribbean and the Americas: report

    It offers some insight into the experiences of German speaking Jewish residents of Poland in the immediate pre-war period.

  7. Yom Hashoah 2010

  8. Dr Max Dienemann: Divorce according to civil and Jewish law: A Treatise

    The papers in this collection document the views of a liberal rabbi in Germany as they relate to reform of the divorce laws in the late 1920s and 1930s

  10. Ludwig Rosenberg collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content  

  12. Max Landenberger: copy documents re property in Nüremberg

    This collection of copy documents is an example of the way in which the Nazis forcibly appropriated Jewish property under the guise of a legitimate transaction into which both parties freely entered.

  13. Gordon family papers

    The collection consists of official and private documents belonging to the members of the Gordon, Auerbach, Heimann and Buchan families, including their correspondence and photographs. The letters between Alfred and Lore Gordon, most of which were written between June 1938 and January 1946, represent about two fifths of the entire collection. In addition there is a large body of correspondence between Lore and her parents in Germany, including some letters and Red Cross telegrams sent during the war.

  16. Drielsma: family documents

    Readers need to reserve a termnal in the reading room to access this digital content.Drielsma: family documents also including correspondence and photographs

  18. Jewish refugees in Portugal: various papers

    This miscellaneous collection of reports document the situation of German Jewish refugees in Portugal in the 1930s. Reference is made to the Committee for the Aid of Jewish Refugees and to its founder Augusto d'Esaguy.

  19. Paul Plaut: correspondence

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThe collection is entirely non-political. Unintentionally it is, however, a vivid illustration of the 'brain drain' which hit Germany and Austria a few years later. A large number of contributors were amongst the best known emigrants. Some did not survive the Holocaust.The responses are arranged alphabetically by correspondent into folders, 647/1-25. A few of the responses which are not related to Plaut's book have been subsumed into the main alphabetical series. At folder 647/26 there are some unidentified let...

  20. Hugo Gryn Memorial Lecture by Trevor Phillips

    This document is the text of a lecture put on by the Wiener Library in memory of Rabbi Hugo Gryn at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, on 21 June 1998 and given by Trevor Phillips.