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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn: Personal papers

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  2. CD 3

  3. Wiener Library Archive

  4. Eugen Nätscher collection

    Diary of a German army doctor in Russia during World War Two including digitised manuscript version, digitised word-processed version with scans of photographs, sketches and associated documents.

  5. William Kaczynski collection

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital content.Material collected by William Kaczynski, which served as the basis for A Postal History of Refugees from the Nazis, published as Fleeing From the Führer (the History Press, 2011). Includes letter covers, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs, alongside some contextual material from Kaczynski’s collection process and exhibition. Includes documents relating to internment camps, concentration camps, displaced person camps, undercover mail and addresses, refugee and relief organisations, as well as significant ev...

  6. Breslau Jewish community: Archives

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  7. Beatrice Rozenberg collection

    This collection is comprised of 15 paintings of Holocaust victims as well as two boxes of material that are currently uncatalogued.The artist Beatrice Rozenberg (b.1913-d.1995) painted under the pseudonym Benedict Davies for some time. She studied at The Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in 1935, 1939, 1941 and 1946.

  8. Vienna Jewish Community: Archives

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  9. Prichsenstadt Jewish community: Archives

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  10. Kurt and Edith Brent: personal papers

    Documents including family correspondence describing the difficult living conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Second World War; Kurt Brent's papers collected in preparation for emigration such as school certificates, 'Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung', German passport and driving license, British army soldier's service and pay book, soldier's release book, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen membership card and his memoirs; as well as Edith Brent's emigration papers such as training certificates, testimonials and work references, marriage certificate and correspondence relation to war co...

  11. Bernhard Lösener: statement under oath

    This typescript, annotated, statement by Bernhard Lösener, the former so-called 'racial expert' of the Third Reich, bears the original signature of Bernhard Lösener and is authenticated by the original signature of Walter Speyer, Allied Civilian AGO 20194.

  12. Copy documents re 1936 Olympics

    Copy documents concerning preparations for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

  13. Zappert family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment under the Nazi regime in 1938. His son Karl and his family also escaped further persecution by going to England via Denmark and Brazil. Wolf Zappert's papers include title deeds and ot...

  15. Hannah Kuhn: family papers

    This collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and an step-grandmother (Meta) in Treibnitz, who was last heard of towards the end o...

  17. 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. Dresner family collection

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  20. Felix Langer: diaries

    The diaries contain mostly sparse notes often barely legible. A large part of the content relates to books.