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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Lee Comer (née Sanders): family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Lee Comer (née Sanders), the daughter of Jewish refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia respectively.

    Family papers including the papers and correspondence submitted to the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism Austria and the International Commission on Holocaust Insurance Claims relating to the Schleifer family as well as correspondence with Yad Vashem. Also included are correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the Bäuml family, as well as a transcript of an interview with Inge Lojdova (née Bäumlova).German  ...

  2. Eric Strach: Personal papers

  3. Rolf Falksohn: Family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the family of Rolf Falksohn and includes birth marriage and death certificates (1863/1/1-13); war time correspondence from Rolf in London, to his sister, Tutta, in Palestine (digital); pre war correspondence between Rolf's father Albert (1891-1943), Rolf and Tutta (digital); postwar correspondence from Rolf's aunt Trude in Berlin (digital); copy documentation regarding Rolf's uncle and aunt Leo Segall (1886-1943) and Manya Segall nee Falksohn (1892-1943) (1863/1/11); photgraphs (digital and some printouts: 1863/2/1-25)  

  4. Leslie Reid: Family papers

    This collection comprises the papers of Leslie Reid, formerly Erwin Reiter, including the following series: 1874/1- including passport and Jewish travel document, birth, naturalisation and death certificates; 1874/2- educational documents; 1874/3- correspondence including from his parents whilst he was interned in Canada, from his brother and from Leslie to his parents while he was in Dachau 

  5. Correspondence with Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit Hamburg

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The file’s main correspondent is German journalist Erich Lüth, one of the initiators of the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Hamburg, and director of the city’s press office.The correspondence covers a wide range of topics with most of them only briefly touched. Discussed subjects are Lüth’s trips to Israel; postwar Antisemitism in West Germany, particularly in several publications or movies and a wave of antisemitic incidents in 1959/60; the public view on refugees; visits and public talks of the Library’s staff members Alfred Wiener and Eva Reichmann in Germany; the ...

  6. Correspondence with Löwenthal, Ernst Gottfried

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Illustrating the close association between Löwenthal and The Wiener Library the substantial and long-term correspondence documents the mutual assistance of both parties with their professional activities in the fields of journalism, restitution, and information gathering respectively. This refers to the exchange of published and unpublished materials, processing of information requests on certain individuals, historical details, or archival material, the discussion of current affairs in West Germany, mutual advice on certain issues, and also the exchange of personal information (vacation, c...

  7. Correspondence with Weil, Bruno

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Long-term correspondence on various topics. Letters from the pre-war period centre on the options of Jewish-German emigration to South America, with a focus on Brazil or Bolivia (1936-37). The post war correspondence covers various subjects including the Kartell Convent and the Centralverein; reservations against ‘Yekkes’ (German speaking Jews) among international Jewry; Weil’s research and publication on the Dreyfus affair and Roman orator Cicero; activities in the field of restitution, and various other current affairs (1951-61). After his passing, additional correspondence contains condo...

  8. Heinz Süssmann personal papers

    Personal papers and correspondence of Heinz Süssmann

  9. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...

  10. B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck (London) Lodges: archives

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentComprising documents, including bound reports, volumes, and index cards as well as some photographs and single objects, the collection includes the organisational papers of the Leo Baeck (London) Lodges and their affiliated bodies. Spanning more than seven decades, the material covers the complete period of the Lodges’ existence. The preserved papers appear, however, to be incomplete and only part of an originally larger bulk of material.The documents provide an overview of the organisational structures of the Leo Ba...

  11. Council for German Jewry: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection consists of correspondence of the Council for German Jewry on the following subjects: dismissals of Jewish staff at Göttingen University (608/1); Austrian Jewish refugees from the Burgenland; various synagogue congregations in Germany (608/2); emergency relief organisation for German scientists abroad (608/3). Also a report by the Jewish Agency for Palestine re emigration, 1933-1934 (608/4)

  12. Regent's Park School: copy documentation

    Copy documentation regarding Regent's Park School, London NW3.

  13. Wolfgang and Werner Loewy: Correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

  15. Julius Jung: correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the activities of Julius Jung, a German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain

  16. Gisela and Adolf Adler: Personal papers

    This collection contains correspondence, photograph and personal papers documenting the lives of Adolf and Gisela Adler, a Jewish couple who emigrated from Nazi Germany, and their search for relatives after the war.

  17. Adolf Neumann and Margot Cahn: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Margot Cahn (1928-1949) (1674/1-23) and Dr Adolf Neumann (1933-1938) (1674/24-29), who met in 1933 documenting their daily lives, meetings and social events in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until the November pogroms in 1938. Shortly after this event they both emigrated to different countries, Margot to England and Adolf to Scandinavia. Margot Cahn's life in London can be traced through her diaries until 1949. The diaries include poetry and contain memorabilia such as photographs, press cuttings, programmes as well as pressed flowers and leaves.

  18. Albert and Milda Salinger: Copy correspondence

    This collection contains copy correspondence between members of the Salinger family during World War II.Personal papers including details of the name change of Albert Salinger's daughter Judis, Judis's emigration to England, and the death of Milda Salinger's mother in 1943.German

  19. Margot Hirschmann papers relating to Palestine and Orient Lloyd Travel Bureau

    This collection contains papers relating to the business of Palestine & Orient Lloyd G.m.b.H travel bureau.Papers including: a work reference for Margot Hirschmann who worked at the German branch in Berlin until she herself emigrated; copies of advertising, extracts of minutes of meeting regarding pricing of passenger tickets; as well as correspondence with the Central Zionist Archives and American Joint Distribution Committee regarding emigration permits for South America. Also included is correspondence by Susanne Dyke commenting on the caption of a photograph showing people queuing a...

  20. Rudolf, Philipp and Eva Manes: Personal papers

    This collection contains the diary of Rudolf Manes (1699/1) and personal papers of Philipp and Eva Manes (see also WL Doc 1346 for Philipp Manes's papers).