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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Kitchener Camp report and other papers

    Papers of and about Ernest Martin Joseph including transcript of a lecture on the history of Richborough (Kitchener Camp) for refugees and protocol of a meeting of thanksgiving for Ernest Martin Joseph's life.

  2. German information centre

    This collection comprises various papers relating to Holocaust remembrance and compensation to victims, which were collated by the German Information Centre. Copies in German and English of each of the papers are included.

  4. Hashoah Ve'hagvura book of remembrance

    This unbound volume was produced by Yad Vashem in 1966 to mark remembrance day for the Holocaust and Heroism, and was designed for use in schools. It contains photographs depicting the rise of Nazism; the destruction and desecration of synagogues in Vienna, 1938; the Warsaw Ghetto; Yellow Stars; Lodz; Dachau; partisans and the Jewish Brigade.

  5. Esterwegen concentration camp rule book

    Esterwegen concentration camp rule book 

  6. Jews in Hungary: Miscellaneous documents

    Apparently unrelated documents concerning Jews in Hungary.

  7. Peter Andreas Nonnengardt-Nouvelot: papers re imprisonment in North Africa

    Peter Andreas Nonnengardt-Nouvelot: papers re imprisonment in North Africa 

  8. Esther Brunstein: text of speech given at UN

    This document is the text of a speech made by Esther Brunstein at the United Nations Building, New York, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  10. Documents on occupied Norway

    German documents on occupied Normandy, above all addressing propaganda and education.

  11. Overview of French anti-Jewish legislation

    Copy report on French anti-Jewish legislationThe report includes the following subjects: general statistics on the French Jewish population; definition of a Jew; Jewish professional activities; Jewish property; Jewish capital; the treatment of foreign JewsThe original was probably written sometime shortly after the second Statut des juifs, 2 June 1941, of the Vichy Regime since this legislation is consistently referred to throughout.7 pages

  12. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  13. Moritz Plaut: biography

    This biography of Moritz Plaut, a banker, and resident of Berlin (1822-1910) was written by his daughters, Franziska Model, Margarethe Lehmann, Susanne Blumenthal and published, with original photographs pasted in, in June 1922.

  14. Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material

    Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material 

  15. Holocaust survivor interview transcripts

    The transcribed life stories of Holocaust surviviors in this collection are the result of Freda Kosmin’s efforts to record and preserve the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust, paying particular attention to what they achieved after the war. The project was therefore given the title: How Hitler failed: From Survival to Success.The project was instigated when Freda met one of the interviewees then saw him speak publicly about his experiences. He agreed to be interviewed by Freda and also recommended other potential interviewees. There are 7 interview transcripts in total, each seve...

  16. Margot Brauer collection

    Margot Brauer collection 

  17. Report re Dr. Josef Fadenhecht and Bulgarian Jews

    Report on Dr. Josef Fadenhecht, a Bulgarian Jewish teacher and lawyer, and on Bulgarian Jewry in general.The report is typescript, 14 pages, and has been annotated with the year 1944. The author is Klaus Schickert. The tenor is antisemitic.

  18. Goldstaub family papers

    Personal papers of the Goldstaub family

  19. Dr Walter Gross: Lecture

    Lecture from Dr Walter Gross in which he stresses the importance of propaganda as a tool to influence the masses particularly in relation to the propagation of Nazi racial ideology.Typescript. German. 3 pages 

  20. Kobylinski family: correspondence during internment

    This collection consists of correspondence between Else and Sigismund Kobylinski, German Jewish refugees, during their internment on the Isle of Man in Summer and Autumn 1940. The correspondents came to Great Britain in 1939, their children having emigrated some years earlier.