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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  2. Eugen Mittwoch collection

    This collection contains some personal papers relating to Eugen Mittwoch, a Jewish Professor who worked at the University of Berlin in the 1930s. He was dimissed in 1935 due to the introduction of new Nazi legislation aimed to eliminate Jews from public office.Personal papers of Eugen Mittwoch including a letter regarding his dismissal from his university post (1935), letter from the German Foreign Office allowing him to pass all road barriers as employee of the new government (1918), and certificate of honorary title 'Sanitätsrat' awarded to Dr Ludwig Lipmann. 

  3. Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection

    This collection contains photocopies of Vera Coppard-Leibovic's (née Ilse Rosendorff) identity cards, a former Jewish Kindertransportee from Berlin whose parents decided to send her to England in 1939 to avoid her being exposed to Nazi persecution.Copy identity cards including a 'Judenkarte' (German ID card for Jews) and identity card for young people under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children admitted to travel to the UK.

  4. Trude Grünwald collection

    This collection contains a photocopy of the diary (incomplete) of Trude Grünwald from Vienna, a Jewish refugee who emigrated with her parents to England via Albania in 1938.

  5. Michael Siegel collection

  7. 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').

  9. 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  ...

  11. Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy): personal papers

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy).

  12. Singer family collection

    This collection contains correspondence regarding the rescue of three generations of the Singer family, Jewish business people from Vienna who emigrated to Australia via England in 1939. E A Harris and his wife, Jimmy Deyong from London as well as Henry Caminer from Sydney helped the family to obtain permits.Correspondence and copies of the landing permits. 

  13. Else Löwy-Leseritz collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Else Löwy-Leseritz, a Jewish medical doctor from North Rhine-Westphalia, who was murdered in the Holocaust.Photocopies of the medical qualifications and work references of Else Löwy-Leseritz.

  14. Aron Adolf Neiss collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Aron Adolf Neiss and his family, former Jewish refugees from Vienna. The Neiss family originally came from Poland but had moved to Vienna by the 1920s. Aron and his son emigrated to England in July 1939.Personal papers including birth and marriage certificates, certificates of family origin ('Heimatschein'), Herbert Neiss' tax clearance certificate, passports, Aron Neiss' certificate of naturalisation and power of attorney relating to his restitution claim. Also included are personal correspondence, papers relating to the sale of the family ho...

  15. Ilse Shatkin: diary and papers

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Ilse Shatkin, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to England on the Kindertransport in 1939. She lost her mother in the Holocaust.Personal papers including a copy of her diary (1935-1947) together with a translation into English (from 1939), letters addressed to her father Armin Grünwald as well as birth certificate and certificate of Austrian citizenship of Armin Grünwald. The diary documents Ilse's life as a refugee in England. She found it very difficult to adjust to her situation, often felt homesick, and missed her mother a...

  16. Heinemann and Epstein family collection

    This collection contains photographs and a family tree relating to the Epstein family, a large Jewish family from Frankfurt.Photographs, family tree, also included is a notebook of poetry and correspondence addressed to Adelheid Heinemann who fled Nazi Germany with her husband, son and mother

  17. Friedrich Falk collection

    This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Friedrich Falk, a Jewish lawyer from Dusseldorf who emigrated on the Kitchener camp scheme to England intending to move to Palestine to escape Nazi persecutions.Personal papers of Friedrich Falk including his qualifications and work references, various police certificates confirming his places of residence as well as correspondence with the Jewish Agency for Palestine Berlin regarding his application for emigration. Also included is correspondence regarding his inheritance and genealogical research.

  18. Freddie Knoller: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers survived in England and the United States respectively.Included are letters (with translations) from Freddie Knoller’s parents, mainly addressed to his brother Erich, giving an insight into their fea...

  19. Kupfer family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Kupfer family, former Jewish refugees from Germany.Family papers of the Kupfer family including papers relating to the family's restitution claims and pensions (1849/1-2); personal documents such as Erich Kupfer's birth certificate, qualifications, work references and conduct certificates, US immigration affidavit, military papers as well as Ruth Kupfer's criminal record certificate, UK certificate of registration and friendship book ('Poesiealbum') (1849/3). Also included are personal papers and war-time correspondence (1942-1943) of Karl and Selm...

  20. Thea Wessley: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence received by Thea Wessley in England from her family and friends in Austria. Thea Wessley, a Jewish girl from Vienna, was sent to England in 1939 in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her parents, Siegfried and Fanny Deuches, were separated and perished in concentration camps in the Holocaust. Includes English summary.Correspondence sent by her parents as well as her grandfather Hermann Zwicker, and other relations and friends. The correspondence documents the life of an Austrian refugee girl in England, the worries of her parents about her health, educ...