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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Jonas May collection

  2. Oskar Neumann collection

    Collection of original letters with English translations from Oskar Neumann in Tombelone (?) sent to family in Great Britain. Mention is made of relatives in France and England.

  3. American Friends Service Committee: Refugee hostel papers

    This collection comprises copy material relating to refugee hostels founded by the American Friends Service Committee.

  9. Correspondence with Blank, Max

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the 75th anniversary of the mall ‘Kogge’ in Witten. Contained is an ad prospect published on this occassion.

  10. Correspondence with Caley, T.

    1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Thank you note to T. Caley for sending a report on her persecution during National Socialism to the Wiener Library.

  11. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  12. Gerald Jayson, Edith Bown and Robert Sugar: articles re Jewish refugee farm

    This collection contains two articles relating to the Jewish refugee settlement farm in Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland.Articles: the first article published in The Jewish Monthly (October 1990) was written by Gerald Jayson (formerly Jacobowitz). The second article in the Belfast Jewish Chronicle (September 2005) was written by another refugee, Robert Sugar. He was six years old when he arrived from Vienna. His parents survived the war.English

  13. Steiner family: copy correspondence

    This collection consists of copy correspondence of the Steiner family and friends, a Jewish family living in Czechoslovakia who were dispersed by the Holocaust.Correspondence concerning efforts to arrange for emigration, living conditions for refugees going to America and updates on the lives of family members and friends.German Hungarian

  14. Putzel family: correspondence and Red Cross letters

    This collection contains the papers of Otto and Lena Putzel, a German-Jewish couple who emigrated to London to avoid Nazi persecution.Included is a copy Red Cross letter from Otto and Eva Putzel to Rosi Rosenthal and her husband (Otto's brother) in Nuremberg, Bavaria, enquiring after news. Also includes Hermann Putzel's citation for a medal for his services in the 14th Infantery Regiment 'Hartmann' in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).

  15. Lisbeth Sokal: Personal papers

  16. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  17. Pauline Howard: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers (photocopies) of Pauline Lilly Howard, a Jewish woman who emigrated to Shanghai with her first husband Herbert Markstein in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions in Germany. After the Second World War she moved to the United States with her second husband, William Howard.Personal papers including school reports; birth, marriage and divorce papers; extract of the Directory of Jewish Refugees; Shanghai Municipal Police census form; identity cards and foreigners' residency certificate; affidavit in lieu of a passport for her emigration to the U.S.; U....

  18. Clive Teddern: The Hyphen News and other papers

    The bulk of the collection is materials produced in Clive Teddern’s role as editor of The Hyphen News. Also included are his memoirs and papers of the Otto Hirsch Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation.

  19. Correspondence from Gurs concentration camp, France

    These two postcards offer a brief insight into conditions at Gurs internment camp experienced by Berta Kahnheimer, a German (?) Jewish inmate.

  20. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...