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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. SS Oberreiter Emmerich menzer: Letter

    This letter, written by a member of a Waffen SS Veterinär Ersatzkompanie in Radan, Poland, offers a rare insight into the experiences of a rank and file member of an SS company. The letter is particularly noteworthy for the way in which the author expresses regret for having missed taking part in an action in which 3 Polish villages were raided and a great number of Poles were shot. Unfortunately the location of Radan is not known. It is therefore not possible to place the letter in its precise historical context.The letter is written in Sütterlin script.

  2. Report re conditions in France under German occupation

    Report re conditions in France under German occupation including detail on the following subjects: smuggling people out of the country; good behaviour and manners of the invading force; the price of goods. The report has been annotated thus: ‘Reliable report; not for publication'English. 5 pages 

  3. Last train to tomorrow

  5. Heinrich Stern collection

    Family correspondence and papers re emigration

  6. Copy documents re Bad Aussee resistance movement and Operation Bernhard

    This collection of copy documentation relates to the Austrian resistance movement during the Nazi era and to the attempt by the Nazis to wage economic warfare by flooding Britain with counterfeit British currency in the operation named Unternehmen Bernhard, after the Gestapo officer in charge, Bernhard Krueger

  7. Tony Berger collection

    This collection comprises the personal correspondence received by Tony Berger, a Jewish refugee from Duisburg who was the only one of her siblings to emigrate to England on a domestic visa. Despite her efforts to help her family leave the country, they did not manage to obtain the required documentation in time.Family letters of Tony Berger, mainly from her mother, siblings and grandparents, document her family's efforts and hopes for emigration with the help of Tony Berger's new contacts in England as well as Tony Berger's life in London as a refugee employed as a domestic maid. Also inclu...

  8. Kartell Convent: Miscellaneous material

    Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material 

  9. Leonard Montefiore collection

    Leonard Montefiore collection comprising draft writings, correspondence, printed material and press cuttings documenting his life and work

  10. Eric Erber collection

    The collection contains the personal papers of Eric, Robert and Anna, in particular vital records and identity documents. Eric’s papers include the materials he collected in seeking compensation for a property owned by his mother’s family. Robert’s papers contain materials on his dismissal from the Viennese tram company because of the Nazi race laws and a letter from the foreign representatives of the Austrian socialists offering Robert support as a political refugee. The collection also includes Robert’s correspondence with various institutions on the whereabouts of his brother Ernst, who...

  11. Dr George F.J. Bergmann: Diaries and personal papers

    Amongst the papers in this collection are a set of typescript transcripts of his diaries which document in detail his experiences in the Foreign Legion and in prison. They also provide a full report on the infamous trial of French officers and guards at Hadjerat M'Guil.

  12. Neuengamme trials: Papers of J. C. Giffin

    The collection primarily consists of handwritten notes, presumably by Giffin, on the trials. These cover the testimony provided by the witnesses for the prosecution and the defence made by the accused. In addition there are several official British documents on the case, including the depositions. There are also some statements by the defendants’ lawyers, as well as German press cuttings on the case.

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. Nuremberg War Crimes Trial: documents

    This collection comprises authenticated copies and translations into English of Nuremberg War Crimes trial documents which specifically pertain to the fate of European Jewry. The collection contains both contemporary documentation (eg correspondence, directives and orders between Nazi authorities) and post war affidavits from witnesses. Section A: "Racism and Antisemitic Propaganda" (Including: Anti-Jewish research. Indoctrination. Promotion of anti-Semitism abroad. Denial of anti-Jewish activities. Reactions to the foregoing.) 1655/1-286.Section B: “Discrimination” (Inc...

  16. Aranka Fuchsova papers

    This collection contains documents relating to Aranka Fuchsova and her husband Jan (Hanusch) Fuchs.

  17. Elise Steiner: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elise Steiner, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in 1938. Her parents and younger brother were murdered at Kowno concentration camp in 1941.Personal papers Including family correspondence (together with typescripts) documenting the day to day activities and aspirations of a Jewish family in Vienna. Recurring themes include their gratitude that at least one child was able to escape and continue with her education, efforts to find a place on the Kindertransport for Elise's brother Leo Steiner, news o...

  18. Max Nachmann collection

    Personal papers of Max Nachmann, including vital records and identity documents, as well as correspondence with institutions, companies and individuals, mainly on his attempts to extract his family from Poland and Germany. There are also personal papers belonging to his wife, siblings, father and aunt. 

  20. Persecution of Jews in Berlin: Various copy documents

    This collection of copy documents records the experiences of racial persecution of Jews in Berlin. It includes the following: an arrest warrant for Leo Boschwitz, (1935) for the destruction of a copy Der Stürmer (-/1) and his release from Lichtenburg concentration camp in the same year(-/2); a good conduct certificate issued by Camp le Vernet for Kurt Noher (1940) (-/5); detailed instructions issued by the jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin to Regina Montilja prior to her deportation to 'the Protectorate', (1942) (-/7); and pro forma summons to the assembly station at Grosse Hamburger Str...