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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. German trade organisations: copy correspondence re antisemitic measures

    The collection contains copies of letters from various German trade organisations outlining the extent and nature of their antisemitic measures, date 1934-1935.

  2. Situation of non-aryan lawyers in Germany: Report

    The report explains the background to the level of discrimination against non-aryan lawyers, which obtained in Germany, c1934, by describing the forcible expulsions of judges and lawyers from Breslau courts; subsequent ad hoc discriminatory actions in other parts of the country; and the official sanctions of these actions by the Ministry of Justice.

  3. Nazi prosecution of Freemasons on Jersey: copy documents

    These copy papers document Nazi fascination for and persecution of Freemasonry on the island of Jersey, Channel Islands, in the immediate aftermath of the looting of Jersey's Masonic Temple in 1941.

  5. Leon Greenman: autobiography drafts

    This collection contains various drafts of Leon Greenman's autobiography, which was originally entitled 15 Minutes Too Late eventually published as An Englishman in Auschwitz , in 2001. In addition to the various draft versions of his autobiography, this collection contains correspondence and notes relating to them.

  6. Major Jacobs' papers

    This collection consists of material, which documents, in part, the activities of a former major in the Civil Defence Forces, including photographs; post war material re activities in an ex-serviceman's association; and sundry other related items. Much of the material is in facsimile form, having, apparently, previously formed part of an exhibition

  7. Bronia Veitch: copy papers re Jewish children in Belgium

    This collection of copy documents consists of alphabetical lists of Jewish children in hiding and their guardians in Belgium, 1940-1945. They were created by the Comité de defense de Juifs.

  8. Pan Arische Welt Union and Arisch-Christliche Allianz: papers

    This collection contains some papers of these virulently anti-Semitic organizations from the 1930s.

  9. Fate of Jews, Vienna: Confidential

    Confidential notice from the Gestapo, Darmstadt, to various officials in the state of Hesse, regarding measures taken against the Jewish population of Vienna, by the police authorities there. 

  10. Hans Kroker: papers re law suit

    This collection contains papers concerning a threatened law suit which arose out of an assertion made in the famous TV programme Holocaust, which was broadcast in Germany in 1979. In particular, Hans Kroker, a former SS member, refutes the assertion made by one of the programme's participants that the family of this person was murdered in gas chambers, claiming that, without proof, it amounted to a vicious slur on the SS. The papers include a news magazine cutting with details of the story; a copy letter from Hans Kroker's lawyer, Eberhard Engelhardt, to the person who uttered the alleged s...

  11. Testimonies of Jewish former residents of Russia and Eastern Europe

    Testimonies of Jewish former residents of Russia and Eastern Europe describing experiences of persecution.. All of the interviewees went to Palestine on Youth AliyahThe identities of the interviewees are not known. Each testimony is entitled ‘case history' and followed by a number. The numbers in this collection are: 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16. It is not known where the missing numbers are.

  12. Frank Bright family papers

    This collection contains correspondence and copy papers relating to the depositor's family history, in particular that of the Wasservogel's, the depositor's uncle's family.

  13. Miscellaneous eyewitness testimonies

    This collection of miscellaneous testimonies and reports were originally arranged for inclusion in the Wiener Library's 'Eyewitness Accounts' series but were never included (hence the former reference numbers).Information regarding provenance, where known, is included in the description to individual reports.

  14. Fascist activities in the Low Countries: 2 reports

    These reports are described as having come from a 'good Amsterdam source' that is very reliable. The 2 reports have been transcribed by an unknown recipient. They comprise 2 pages of typescript text.

  15. Ernst Kaltenbrünner: Copy letter re Gräfin Lankorska

    Copy letter from Ernst Kaltenbrünner re the release of Gräfin Lanskorska from protective custody 

  16. Norman Hancock correspondence

    /1-19 Letters received mostly from fellow scouts in Austria asking for assistance to get out of the country. Other correspondents include the Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees, the Catholic Committee for Refugees from Germany, the Council for german Jewry and The Times newspaper

  17. Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

    Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.German 9 pages 

  19. Copy documents re British post-war Fascists