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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Stephen de Bastion: copy family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the family of Hungarian born Stephen de Bastion, pianist and composer, formerly known as Istvan Bastyai.Copy family papers including a transcript of an interview with Stephen de Bastion describing his life; a history of the Bastyai-Holtzer family with family tree; a history of the town of Szeged, Hungary where the family lived; and an account by Edith de Bastion of her family's experiences under the Nazis and press cuttings, and photographs.

  2. Kate Fielding collection

    The bulk of the collection consists of the personal papers of Kate Fielding née Käthe Lichtenstern. These include vital records and identity papers, various accounts of her life, her poetry and prose, her doctorate and related materials, letters to her family in Vienna sent from London and letters she received, many concerning her relatives captured by the Nazis. In addition there are materials belonging to her sister Edith, father Victor and mother Olga, as well as relatives still on the continent: her grandfather Carl Löw, uncle Hermann Löw, aunt Erna Löw and Erna’s mother Minna Bernstei...

  3. Correspondence with Reichmann, Eva

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Containing cards, telegrams, drafts of texts, internal WL notes and trip reports the correspondence documents mainly the work related communication of Reichmann with Wiener Library staff members. The various subjects covered include among others: Some current affairs in West Germany like restitution related issues and reports on a meeting of the Neo Nazi party Sozialistische Reichspartei or the Evangelic Church Assembly; lectures at the Berlin Jewish community or at the German Cultural Institut; issues related with The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project; certain individuals like ...

  4. Correspondence with Kommission zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Frankfurter Juden

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising letters by and with numerous individuals, the correspondence documents the activities of the committee ‘100 Years Jewish Frankfurt’, the formation of the Kommission, and the contribution of The Wiener Library to the latter’s first publication, an edition of documents on the history of Frankfurt’s Jewry in the years 1933-45.Included subjects are among others: arrangements by the committee for lecture by journalist Rudolf Heilbrunn and efforts to procure his source material after he left the project; the committee’s efforts in gathering material and personal accounts on the history...

  5. Correspondence with Jaeger, Hans

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters, the correspondence documents the close relationship between Jaeger and Alfred Wiener, and the former’s work for The Wiener Library. This includes the provision of expert reports as well as the writing of numerous book reviews and articles for the Library’s Bulletin. Moreover, the letters pertain to the exchange of information, publications, and research assistance concerning a wide range of subjects related to both the Nazi era as well as post war Germany. Furthermore, events of Club 43 and Alfred Wiener’s membership in it are discussed. Aside...

  6. Zdenĕk Lederer collection

    This collection comprises Zdenĕk Leder's personal papers including documents, notebooks and correspondence; papers documenting the publication of his book on the Theresienstadt Ghetto; compensation claim papers; papers documenting his activitities as an employee of Radio Free Europe.

  7. Erich and Magdalena Schulhof: family papers

    This collection consists of the family papers of Erich and Magdalena Schulhof, a Jewish family who fled Berlin after they were forced to sell their business due to the increasing Aryanisation of Nazi-Germany in the late 1930s.Personal papers including the couple's school reports and qualifications; birth, death and baptism certificates; naturalisation certificate; passports; papers relating to Erich Schulhof's work and the family's restitution claim; correspondence with family and friends; family portraits and copy of the family history. Also included are the papers of their children and th...

  8. Suzanne Ullmann papers

    Reders need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital content.This collection comprises papers of the Ullmann family including correspondence received by Rudi and Lenke Ullmann in the UK from Lenke's mother Regina Brueck née Reisner, aka 'Lill Mama' (Little Grandma), 1939-1942 (with introduction and notes on individuals) 1878/1; poems by Regina Brueck, 1910-1940s, 1878/2; a long letter written by Regina Brueck to her daughter, Heddy, detailing the family's experiences in Budapest during the war, c1945, 1878/3; account by Suzanne Ullmann of life during the war in Budapest, 18...

  9. Elli Kamm collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elli Kamm relating to her and her sister's restitution claim.Personal papers Including restitution papers, eyewitness testimonies, Elli Kamm's 'Arbeitsbuch' and various work references.English, German

  10. Henry Hellmann and Eva Hellmann: personal papers

    Personal papers Including political articles and papers by Henry Hellmann; Hellmann's reminiscences of his parents, Michael and Anna Jacubowicz, and various autobiographical accounts of Henry and  Eva Hellmann; correspondence with family and friends; marriage and death certificates; school reports; journalists membership and press cards; photographs; as well as obituaries and condolences relating to Eva and Henry Hellmann.

  11. Cohn family papers

    This collection contains the business and personal papers of three generations of the Cohn family: Documents belonging to Joseph and Johanna Cohn's papers such as a publican licence, wills and title deeds. Business and personal papers of Heinrich (Heimann) Cohn, including contracts and ac-counts booklets relating to his companies, letters to his wife and mother, as well as a re-quest from his mother-in-law Hedwig Lesheim to allow Heinrich’s family to move to Berlin. Correspondence re restitution claims by Ella Cohn and Herbert Curtis.

  12. Correspondence with Cohen, David

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Containing numerous handwritten letters by Cohen and covering professional as well as personal matters the correspondence documents the long-term and amicable association between correspondents. It centres on various Library related issues including: a restitution related enquiry on the salary of C.C. Aronsfeld at the JCIO (1954); a trip of Alfred Wiener to Belgium and The Netherlands to detect or compile eyewitness accounts for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1955); or a German language paper by Cohen on the history of the JCIO (1959).Particular reference is made to archival ma...

  13. World Jewish Congress: Central files

    Central Files consists of 103 boxes (41.2 linear feet) containing history of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), especially prior to 1940. The series includes correspondence and miscellaneous other materials of WJC leaders, together with minutes and records of conferences and committee meetings. The series name, “Central Files”, was adopted from an existing WJC series consisting of executive files and records from conferences and committees. Central Files includes material unrelated to any one specific department. For more material on specific departments see Series B through G.Spanning the ye...

  14. Linton (Liebermann) family: papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Louis Alexander Linton (formerly Ludwig Alexander Liebermann) and Susan Maria Linton (née Susanne Marie Friedmann), Jewish refugees from Berlin. Louis Linton was advised not to return from a business trip to England due to the anti-Semitic climate in Nazi Germany. His wife and children followed him a few months later in 1937. Susan Linton's father, Leopold Friedmann, died on the journey to Argentina when he and his wife Maria Friedmann fled Nazi-Germany in 1940.Records documenting the Linton family's emigration, internment and new life in Engl...

  15. Muehlstein family collection

    This collection contains the family papers of the Muehlstein family, Jewish refugees from Vienna.Family papers including correspondence and supporting documents relating to restitution and pension claims and war-time Red Cross correspondence between parents and children. Also included is a photograph of Erika and Herbert Muehlstein before their emigration in 1937.In an audio interview the donor describes: being born in Vienna 2 years after her brother in 1932; how her father was beaten up and persecuted by the Nazis; how her brother, who was also badly affected followed his sister after a f...

  16. Gordon family papers

    The collection consists of official and private documents belonging to the members of the Gordon, Auerbach, Heimann and Buchan families, including their correspondence and photographs. The letters between Alfred and Lore Gordon, most of which were written between June 1938 and January 1946, represent about two fifths of the entire collection. In addition there is a large body of correspondence between Lore and her parents in Germany, including some letters and Red Cross telegrams sent during the war.

  17. Lady Rose Henriques Archive

    The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

  18. Kuttner, Godlewsky, Speyer and Marx family histories

    This collection consists of the biographical accounts of three German Jewish families, compiled by Richard Lesser as part of a German initiative to record the fate of Jewish families who perished during the Holocaust.The papers concern the Kuttner family, Siegfried and Fanny Speyer, and Arthur and Elsa Godlewsky.Also contains the personal papers of Dr Ludwig Marx (the donor's father) including his passport (1704/3), a postcard from Dachau concentration camp sent to his wife Regina Marx ((1704/1) and his admission pass to Dachau (1704/2).

  19. Senta Hirtz collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Senta Hirtz, including: school and professional training certificates; papers relating to her work as a physiotherapist; report on her Jewish Relief Unit work at the welfare centre near the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, in 1945 describing the conditions at the hospital, search office and activities of the social club; unpublished memoirs; extracts from diaries, poetry and personal notes; travel journals of holidays in Greece and the USA in the 1970s; report on a trip to her former home in Germany in 1992; and pers...

  20. Günther Wittenberg: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers and correspondence of Günther Wittenberg who was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939.Personal papers including a list of belongings taken to England (1722/1), cv and job applications, notices by the Ministry of Labour and National Service local appeal board, correspondence with family and friends (1722/3) and family trees (1722/5). Also included are letters from the Committee of the Landsberg Jewish Center and Jewish Committee of DP Center 7 Deggendorf regarding the fate of his parents (1722/4).English German