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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. The Red Book: The membership list of Captain Ramsay's Right Club

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentIt is the membership list of Captain Ramsay's Right Club, a body founded in May 1939 'to oppose and expose the activities of Organised Jewry'. Most of the members of the club were enlisted between May and July 1939, i.e. before the outbreak of the Second World War, and the list therefore gives no evidence as to any activities undertaken after the declaration of war.Though the name of the Right Club does not figure at the head of the volume, this is clearly the lost Right Club list for the following reasons:The physic...

  2. Memorial to Isaak David and Martha Teich-Birken

    [Deposit Accession Number 63090] This is collection of copy and transcript correspondence of a German Jewish family in 1941. It comprises, in the main letters, written from Messrs Isaak David and Martha Teich-Birken, resident in Berlin prior to their deportation to the East, to their children, most of whom had managed to emigrate to the United States except for Martin, the depositor, who came to Great Britain. The correspondences affords an insight into the frustrating and increasingly desperate plight of a Jewish family unable to flee Nazi Germany.The material was presented in the form of ...

  3. November Pogrom: Copy press cuttings

    This collection comprises press cuttings from the British and European press in the immediate aftermath of the November Pogroms in Germany, 1938.

  4. Fred Dunston: papers re Youth Aliyah

    These papers document the experiences of the children, young people and youth leaders who were involved with the Youth Aliyah movement first in Austria then Great Britain, 1939-1941. They represent a unique insight into the problems faced by the youth leaders and the children in camps in Kent and Devon. Much of the material includes English translations from the original German by Fred Dunston along with explanatory notes.Document Collection 1301 comprises transcriptions and copies of the Braunton material.

  5. Eyewitness reports regarding the November Pogrom

    Readers should use online version via link belowThis is a collection of 356 reports gathered in the weeks and months following the November Pogrom of 1938 by the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam. Each report has a unique number in the sequence from B.1 to B.353 (B. presumably is an abbreviation of Bericht [report]) with five additions (B.62a, B.175a, B.333a, plus B.1001 and B.1002 at the end), and two unused numbers (B.342 and B.343). Most of the dated reports were created in November and December 1938; others were prepared in January and February 1939, and the remainde...

  6. Bernhard Reichenbach: Correspondence and papers

    These papers document the post-war journalistic and broadcasting activities of Bernhard Reichenbach, former actor, political party official, journalist and refugee from Nazi Germany.The papers consist largely of annotated drafts of broadcast transcripts, produced for the German radio station, Süddeutscher Rundfunk. They cover a wide range of subjects providing, for the German audience, an insight into the economic, social and political life of Britain, 1963-1974. Also included are book reviews and correspondence.

  7. Political Warfare Executive: Airborne leafletes, French Allied

    Two copies of the French “Revue de la Presse Libre” No. 45 dropped during in the nights 4./5. April until 15./16. April 1943.French 

  10. Political Warfare Executive: Airborne leaflet Leaflets dropped by Dutch

    Five Copies of Dutch Allied (RAF) dropped airborne leaflets “De Luchtpost” No. 8/1941. Dropped in the night between 17/18 Nov and 18/19 Nov 1941.Dutch 

  11. Antisemitic notices

    Two small paper notices stamped with the Anti-semitic slogan "Kauft nicht bei Juden" 

  12. Alice Stern: Jewish id card

    Jewish Identification Card of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia "Allgemeine Bürgerliche Legitimation" was issued 4 Nov 1940, it has a red "J" stamp in it, the date of the evacuation 31 Oct. 1941 and the marriage notice with Mr. Eckstein, dated 5 May 1942.German and Czech 

  13. Political toilet paper

    Early World War I propaganda toilet paper "Die Lügen-Nachrichten unserer Feinde! Bestes deutsches Abort-Papier" [the lying news of our enemies - best German toilet paper]. Consists of approximately 65 sheets with printed press reports bound in a folder, which is stamped on the back: Friedrich Blos Gr. Hoflieferant Karlsruhe. (New cord, original was black-red-white, see copy Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)German 

  14. Left Book Club: leaflets

    Leaflets, advertising the Left Book Club's membershipEnglish 

  15. Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin: Presentation folder of stamps

    Folder with a collection of stamps depicting the destroyed synagogues in Berlin, issued by the Jüdische Gemeinde Berlin for donations for their repair and upkeep. Printer of the folder: Neisser Druck, Berlin SO36German 

  17. George W. Burger: Collection of political stickers

  18. Musikschule Hollaender, Berlin: leaflet

    Copy leaflet addressed to Jewish parents advertisng musical lessons for childrenGerman 

  19. Forgiving Dr. Mengele

  20. German election material

    The collection consists of election material covering the era of the Weimar Republic, especially the last years. There are many flyers from the NSDAP, but also other parties, like the Zentrum, the SPD and the KPD.