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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  2. Eva Webb: personal papers

    Personal correspondence and autobiographical account of Eva Webb. Also included is correspondence relating to her war compensation claim, confirmation of the death of Heinrich Poper by Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association and letters from her father.

  3. Edith Jayne: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Edith Jayne who emigrated with her Jewish parents from Vienna to Lisbon in 1938. Due to U.S. quota restrictions they had to wait another three years until they reached their intended destination of the United States.Personal papers including photographs, birth certificate and two biographical accounts (includes affidavit for pension purposes confirming and describing her background).

  4. The house on the hill

  6. Peter and Frieda Newton collection

    Personal papers including Frieda Newton's certificate of origin ('Heimatschein'), school reports, birth certificate, work references, papers for emigration such as medical certificate, police and tax clearance certificates, correspondence with the Austrian Self-Aid Domestic Agency in London, hairdressing and manicure certificate issued by the emigration department of the Jewish Community in Vienna as well as letters by the Jewish Refugees Committee confirming the deportation of Frieda Newton's family members. Also included are Peter Newton's Territorial Army enlistment certificate, naturali...

  7. Fred Worms collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Fred Worms, a former Jewish refugee who emigrated to England as a student. He became a highly successful businessman and philanthropist who contributed to developing cultural, sporting and religious facilities in Jerusalem and Israel.

  10. Gertrud and Max Joseph, Ida and Paul Simons and Arthur and Hans Bial: papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the Jewish family of Gaby Glassmann-Simons, in particular her grandparents, Gertrud and Max Joseph and Ida and Paul Simons.These papers include personal accounts as well as interviews with Walter Rau and Hans Sahl. Also included is other material relating to Jewish persecution such as an article by Gaby Glassman regarding Irene Bloomsfield's work on intergenerational communication within families affected by Nazi persecution (2003), and correspondence and papers relating to the Jewish community in Stralsund.The collection also consists of the pers...

  11. Stefanie and Walter Simon and Max Auerbach: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Walter and Stefanie Simon and Stefanie's father Max Auerbach, Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Germany in the mid 1930s because of the increasing difficulties in earning a living.Personal papers including Max Auerbach's school reports, qualifications, death certificate, two Iron Cross medals (1914-1918) and internment badges; Stefanie Simon's identify cards and passport, CV, school reports and qualifications,  birth, marriage and naturalisation certificates as well as photographs, internment badge and family history report; and Wal...

  13. Emilie Bergmann: correspondence from Otwock ghetto

    This collection consists of correspondence from Emilie Bergmann who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England. She describes her life in the ghetto, the scarcity of food and requests for food parcels, her health problems and her longing to be released.Correspondence from Emilie Bergmann, who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England.

  15. Account of the Kohn family's fate during the Holocaust

    This collection consists of a family history report on the fate of Thomas Brady's grandparents, Bernhard and Hedwig Kohn and their daughter Herta from Vienna who perished in the Holocaust.Account of the Kohn family's fate including illustrations of contemporary documents and details of other members of the family who were murdered. 

  16. Richard and Gisela Bernstein: personal papers

    This collection contains papers (photocopies) relating to the fate of the Jewish family of Richard and Gisela Bernstein and their children Heinz and Susanne. Whilst the children emigrated to England as Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi regime, their parents could not escape deportation to Auschwitz despite them moving to Oslo.Personal papers including birth and death certificates, correspondence from the parents in Prague and later Oslo to their children in England, Red Cross letters sent to the parents in Oslo, photographs and Susanne Medas' personal accounts concerning her family's life in...

  18. Strauss family: personal papers and corresondence

    This collection consists of the papers of the Strauss family, German speaking Jews from Prague, most of whom managed to flee Nazi persecution.Personal papers including Julius Strauss' diary (incomplete) in which he describes the emigration of his children and his failed attempt to go to Paris in April 1939 to find accommodation for himself and Elsa; wartime correspondence between the parents, their children and friends; papers relating to Julius Strauss and Vilem Lesny's compensation claim; photographs; family trees; as well as papers relating to the estate of family friend, Otakar Bondy, w...

  20. Elizabeth Eisner: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Elisabeth Eisner, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who fled Austria shortly after the annexation in 1938. As soon as her mother had obtained her domestic permit she joined her in 1939.Personal papers including birth and naturalisation certificates, Heimatschein, qualification, list of belongings brought to England upon emigration, photographs, papers relating to compensation claims and pension payments, as well as a translation of an interview with Elisabeth Eisner in which she tells her life story.