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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Marianne Fischer: copy correspondence

    This collection contains copy correspondence from Rosa Jonas in Berlin to her granddaughter Marianne Frank who had recently emigrated from Nazi Germany with her husband Hans Fischer.Rosa Jonas writes about news from family and friends in Berlin, some of whom were also emigrating. Includes summaries of letters in English.

  2. Alfred Eckstein: diary

    This collection contains the diary of Alfred Eckstein who emigrated with his family to Israel in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecutions.Diary in which the author describes the first three years of his daughter's development.German

  3. Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence

    This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Lotte Oppenheim regarding the tracing of her mother, Berta Fraustaedter, after the Second World War. Berta Fraustaedter was a Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp.Included are correspondence with the Jewish Refugee Committee, the International Committee of the Red Cross and friends regarding arrangements for her mother to move to the UK.

  4. Richard Burnett collection

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Richard Burnett (formerly Behrendt), a former Jewish refugee from Berlin who emigrated to flee Nazi persecution.The collection includes his birth and naturalisation certificates, family photographs, and Leo Mayer's membership card of the stock exchange Berlin ('Börsenkarte').

  5. Isabella Roth: personal papers

    Collection of papers of Isabella Roth, an Austrian Jewish refugee.

  6. Rita Philip papers

    This collection comprises an original, undated, though apparently contemporary account of Fanny Moses' journey to the UK from Amsterdam without any money. Also included are a copy of the document, both a manuscript and typescript translation of the document and 2 copy photographs of Fanny Moses

  7. Martin Berger collection

    The papers reflect his interests in and membership of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, The Trade Union Centre for German Workers in Great Britain and the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain.

  8. Max Perls: Family papers

    This is a collection of correspondence from friends and family in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland and Stettin, close to the German border, to Max Perls and his wife in Chile.Correspondence from friends and family in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland and Stettin, close to the German border, to Max Perls and his wife in Santiago, Chile. Includes at -/20 a typescript poem by Friedrich Kroner, which appeared in Aufbau, Friday 14 November 1947. It was originally penned on 3 February 1944, while the author was in a slave labour camp in Thüringen

  10. Kartel Convent: Various papers

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

  11. Max Wolff collection

    Part autobiographical , part historical part legal treatise

  12. Max Sanders: personal papers

    This collection consists of mostly original personal papers of Max Sander, a German Jew, who apparently came to Great Britain in 1939 and, according to an unidentified note died, in London in 1979. Little more is known about the subject beyond the following few details gleaned from the papers themselves.

  13. Laura Selo collection

    Personal papers including Poesie album; Lodz Ghetto bread ration card; copy family photographsReaders need to reserve a reading room terminal to access an audio interview with the donor.

  15. Bernhard Baer: A biographical account

    Biographical notes on Bernhard Baer. The notes provide details of his life, born into a German Jewish family in Berlin in 1905, and trace his experiences through the First World War and its aftermath, his escape from Nazi persecution to England in 1938 and his subsequent career as an expert in colour printing and a publisher of artists' graphic work.English Typescript 24 pagesThe account was written in note form shortly after the subject's death in 1983. It is divided into two parts: the first covering the years 1905-1948; and the second 1949-1983.

  16. Rebeka Rosenberg collection

    This is a supplement to the collective history of the Blanknstein family compiled by Sisa Svidovsky. It comprises printed translations of letters and postcards received by Rebeka (Rita) Rosenberg née Blankstein from her relatives and friends between 1939 and 1942. The letters describe family life in occupied Poland, neutral Switzerland, Great Britain at war, USA and Palestine.

  18. Edith Nussbaum: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers includes copy birth certificates, police registration documents, Jewish passport, British naturalisation certificate and restitution papers

  19. The Inter-Aid Committee for Children from Germany and Austria: papers

    The Inter-Aid Committee for Children from Germany and Austria: papers including material on individual cases; appeals and responses; correspondence; holiday hospitality and sample forms for guarantors

  20. Correspondence with Kantorowicz, Hilda

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the offer of Kantorowicz to sell the Library a set of antique books. Contained is a list of political papers of her late husband.