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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Chief Rabbi Herz: Passover letter and postcard

    Printed Passover letter from the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and postcard mourning the victims of the massacres in PolandEnglish 

  2. Eva Williams: Family papers

    This collection comprises the papers of Emanuel Kohn including certificates and testimonials, photographs, copy Red Cross telegrams, family tree; also letters from Kazakhstan from Richard Kohn to Eva Williams, 1983-1997.  

  3. W.P. Jaspert: account of an anti-nazi family

    This collection originally constsisted just of the 2 page account of a anti-Nazi family, described below. Since then more material has been donated to the library: namely an autobiographical account by the depositor and an article on German, non-Jewish anti-Nazis by the depositor's son. These will be catalogued in the main library catalogue. There are also some anti- Nazi propaganda leaflets

  4. Inge-Lore Sommerfeld: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers and photographs of Inge-Lore Sommerfeld, a former Kindertransportee who was sent to England aged 12.Personal papers Including correspondence, passports, school reports and qualifications, certificate of confirmation, correspondence and papers regarding employment with the BBC and Marks & Spencer, and a family tree.

  5. Antisemitism in Poland, pre-war: Unidentified document

    This document appears to be part of an address by a member of Rote Hilfe, a Polish socialist organisation. It attempts to demonstrate that the pogroms at Pizitik, Cracow, Lemberg and Radom were linked with the murder of the Polish working classes and that the Polish proletariat was not anti-Semitic and that the call for anti-Semitism comes from the government. The author exhorts Polish Jews not to emigrate, stating that they have a right to stay.

  6. Jewish community, Stuttgart: commemorative material

    This collection of leaflets and other printed material concerns the activities of the Jewish community in Stuttgart and that of the 'Gesellschaft fuer Christlich-Juedische Zusammenarbeit, Stuttgart'

  7. Report re Nazi propaganda, Amsterdam

    Typed sheet of a confidential report from Amsterdam on Nazi propaganda, mentioning in particular van Heemskerk Duecker who was leader of the Nationalsozialistischen Studentgruppe in Wageningen, Holland. Before that he worked with the Flemish organization in Belgium and in close contact with Rost van Tonningen. There is also a report on Barends who was in close contact with the organization ‘Michiel de Swaen', whose aim was to unite all Flemish speaking countries and was pro Nazi.German 1 pageFormer Wiener Library reference: 211D/ 207E 

  8. Report re bomb damage in Wuppertal

  9. Frank Steiner: Family papers

    This collection comprises the following folders: (1869/1) Correspondence from parents to Willi and Franz, 1938-1939; (1869/2) Correspondence between parents, Willi and Franz and Max Steiner (1874-1942), father's eldest brother, 1938-1942; (1869/3) Correspondence from parents to Franz and Willi, 1938-1943; (1869/4) Correspondence from Julian Halberstam to Willi and Franz, 1939-1951, also biographical material on the family; (1869/5) Correspondence from Julian Halberstam in Saanen, Switzerland, to Willi and Franz, 1951-1956; (1869/6) Correspondence from parents in Budapest to Willi and Franz,...

  10. Copy letter from La Libre Parole re travel expense refund

    Copy letter from Henri Coston, at the offices of the French periodical publishers, La Libre Parole re the refund of travel expensesGerman 

  11. International Committee for Intellectual Refugees: Statement of activities

    Statement of the activities of the International Committee for Intellectual Refugees, a Geneva based organization, founded to provide support to intellectuals, persecuted by the NazisEnglish 2 pages 

  12. Copy document re Schutzjuden

  14. German navy: good conduct certificate

  16. Kurt Weinberg: Family and business papers

    This collection comprises the papers of the Weinberg family, cigar manufacturers of Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia : business papers- including contracts, consigment notes, accounts, tax details, loan contracts, land register entries for the property of the Weinberg family; family papers including marriage agreements, wills, powers of attorney, correspondence 

  18. Captain Perry: copy personal papers

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers of Captain P. J. C. Perry of the British Control Commission, sector Berlin, documents in part his role and activities as a member of the British military authorities in Berlin in the immediate post-war period. He is variously described as the nutrition officer of the nutrition and agriculture department of the military authority; Commander for the admission of motor vehicles; and ‘Herrn Keppenperie' (964/4).

  19. Notes re the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany

    Notes on the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany. The notes provide details on the fate of German banking and industry in the zones of the 4 occupying powers. Issues such as nationalisation (socialisation), decartellisation are discussed and reference is made to the fate of some of Nazi Germany's leading banks and companies. The sources for these notes are newspaper reports; notes taken at press conferences; and extracts from the constitutions of various Länder

  20. Correspondence re Josef Meyer testimony

    Correspondence re Joseph Meyer testimony