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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Strauss/ Sterzelbach Family papers

    This collection contains family correspondence, 1858-1923 (1866/1) replete with English translations- correspondents include Leo and Elise Sterzelbach, Jette Hoenigsberger, Moritz Lichtenstetter, Berta Lichtenstetter et al; correspondence between Kossy Strauss and Moritz Sterzelbach et al 1938-1939 (1866/2); Correspondence concerning assistance with emigration of family and friends, 1938-1939 (1866/3-4); Summary and inventory of correspondence in 1866/3-4 (1866/5); Index and copy correspondence re emigration, 1938-1939 also copy photographs (1866/6); miscellaneous documents re the Lichtenst...

  2. Political Intelligence Department: various papers

    These papers are evidence of the work of the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office in its efforts to guage official and public opinion in Nazi Germany on a whole range of subjects.

  3. Documentation re the exhibition "Jews in Germany under Prussian Rule"

    This collection consists of publicity material and correspondence regarding an exhibition entitled "Jews in Germany under Prussian Rule". At one time it seems that the Wiener Library was planning on hosting the exhibition.The historical exhibition "Jews in Germany...", compiled by the Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, was originally entitled "Jews in Prussia" and opened in September 1981 in West Berlin and has since appeared throughout the Federal Republic of Germany.

  4. Anti-Nazi activities worldwide: leaflets and circulars

    The collection consists of leaflets and circulars of anti-nazi organizations in various countries across the world. Much of the material is annotated with the reference 112F, probably an early Wiener Library subject reference code, which suggests that the material was deposited shortly after it was produced.

  5. Rosel and Selli Goldstein: copy correspondence

    Copy correspondence from former residents of Dresden, two sisters, Rosel and Selli Goldstein, in Sorlice, Poland, to their former teacher, Fräulein Dr. Apt in Dresden and later Upper Norwood, London.

  6. Podhorcer family documents

    This collection of family documents consists of official papers such as copy birth, marriage and death certificates of an Austrian Jewish couple, who, it is assumed managed to escape to Great Britain just before the war (certificates declaring the couple's payment of any outstanding debts to the state are dated 1939).

  8. Mira Hamermesh family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to Mira Hamermesh including  correspondence between Mira and father, Genia, 1938-1940 (1862/1/1-20); general correspondence, 1939-1940 (1862/2/1-21); Correspondence Mira to Mietek with transcriptions, 1942-1943 (1862/3/1-30); postcards from Mira's parents to Mira with translations (1862/4/1-12) copy photographs (1862/5); obituaries (1862/6-7); a chronology of Mira's life (1862/8); personal account by Mira Hamermesh (1862/9); Fay Weldon's introduction to The River of Angry Dogs (1862/10) 

  9. Letter from Dr Georg Brdiczka

    Letter from Dr Georg Brdiczka to Paul (?) asking for assistance with finding workEnglish 

  10. Copy telegram re removal of Jews from Marseille to Compeigne

    Copy telegram, signed Schleier, re an order by the SD to remove foreigners, mainly Jews, from Marseille district to Camp in CompiègneGerman 

  12. Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck

    Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck including typescript notes of a meeting between Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Leo Baeck, October 1955 (1156/9)This collection of correspondence between Leo Baeck and Mrs Ilse Grimbly, Leo Baeck's former secretary, is mostly of an ephemeral nature.

  13. Paula Rosenzweig: Copybook

  14. German Jewish doctors: List of suicides/ murdered

    List of German Jewish doctors who either committed suicide or were murdered between 1933 and 1939.

  15. Nuremberg and Fürth: Eyewitness testimonies of Nazi persecution

    The first item is a report of events in Nürnberg and Fürth during Kristallnacht. The second item is a copy transcript of a letter, the author and addressee of which are unknown, wherein 2 elderly women describe conditions in Germany in 1942.

  16. Photograph of portrait of Luise Hensel

    a mounted photograph of an original pencil drawing by W. Hensel, depicts Luise Hensel (the famous Catholic poet, d. 1876?), in 19th century garb

  18. Miscellaneous collections

    This collection of documents and images came about as the consequence of an appeal made in the May 1962 issue of the AJR Information, by the Council for Jews from Germany, for memorabilia and documents of Germany Jewry, of historical and artistic value, for the Memorial Hall to German Jewry at the Wiener Library.

  19. Annie Jacob: Personal account

    Annie Jacob: personal account of the war years including  a period of incarceration at Gurs internment camp