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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Correspondence re refugees from Czechoslovakia

  2. Copy documents re status of non-denominational Jews

    These copy documents shed some light on the experiences of non-religious Jews during the Nazi era.They were transcribed and copied by the depositor.

  3. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  5. Hadjeret el Meguil, Algeria: Various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents concerning life in Hadjeret el Meguil and other internment camps in Vichy North Africa was, according to a covering note at the beginning of the collection, donated to the Wiener Library, by way of gratitude for the assistance that was given to the depositor with respect to his restitution claims.Material re camps in North Africa including the following:Type-written copy of a novel, "Levinstein", by Peter Andreas, based on his experiences in forced labour units ...

  6. Lodz ghetto: various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of facsimile documentation from the Lodz ghetto comprises at least two separate deposits and sheds light on the controversial role of the chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Rumkowski. One of the documents in this collection is a fragment of a calendar covering part of the year 1942. The front bears an image of Rumkowski with the ghetto in the background and the month of January opens with the slogans 'work', 'bread', 'care of the sick', protection for the children', 'peace ...

  7. Hans Peter Frank collection

  8. Irmgard Piepenbrock: school certificate

    Leaving certificate issued from the commercial college “Handelsschule der Schwestern Unserer lieben Frau zu Ahlen (Westf.) (Berufsfachschule)“.German 

  9. Kartel Convent: Various papers

    This collection contains circulars from the KC in Great Britain and the American Jewish KC Fraternity, Inc.

  10. Robert Loebl diary

  12. Kurt Gerron: personal papers re Theresienstadt film

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises the papers of Kurt Gerron which were created during the course of making the infamous propaganda film, which he directed and which was shot in Theresienstadt-Ghetto in 1944. It was originally entitled Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet but came to be known as Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt. The papers consist of descriptions of the days' shooting; itemized camera shot descriptions; narrator's text and related correspondence and papers. The pap...

  13. Eyewitness testimony collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not testimonies per se but contemporary documents which were donated and later subsumed into this collection. These latter have nonetheless been catalogued and indexed in the same way as the testimonies.

  14. Gilel Storch: copy correspondence and article re Storch's war-time activities

    This collection comprises two separate deposits both made by Hilel (Gilel) Storch, a Latvian Jew and Swedish resident, who helped save the lives of thousands of European Jews during the Nazi era.The earlier deposit (765/1-2) consists of two folders of copy correspondence with enclosures between Storch and two historians, Gerald Fleming and Monty N. Penkower respectively. The later deposit (765/3) is a copy article with translation about the life of Hilel Storch. In order to place the contents of these files in context there followers a brief resumé of Hilel Storch's life and war-time activi...

  15. Press cuttings re the internment of refugees

    Collection of press cuttings regarding the internment of aliens and refugees c1940

  16. Eyewitness testimonies

    Eyewitness testimonies covering a variety of subject matter

  17. Hermann Perl: Correspondence and papers

    This microfilm collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of Hermann Perl, a German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain.

  18. Jews of Krakow: copy news cuttings

    This collection contains copy news cuttings concerning the Jewish population of Krakow, in Polish.

  19. Statements re war crimes

    Statements re war crimes 

  20. Various copy documents re Jewish education during the Third Reich

    Copy papers which document discrimination against Jewish educational institutions and professionals during the Nazi era. The subject matter ranges from dismissal on racial grounds of Jewish academics from 1933, through the separation of aryan and non-aryan instruction, c1938, to the closure of Jewish schools, 1941-1942. A substantial part of the material relates to institutions in Köln and Frankfurt a. M..This collection originally consisted of four separate collections (801, 801a, 801b, 801c).