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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Copy expert report report re the duty of obedience of SS leaders

    This expert report from Dr. Hans-Günther Seraphim, lecturer of Göttingen University, deals with the implications of refusal by SS officers to comply with orders to execute those regarded as enemies of the state

  2. Papers re Jewish family research

    Material regarding Jewish family history and issues relating to non-aryan nobility.

  3. Edith Nussbaum: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers includes copy birth certificates, police registration documents, Jewish passport, British naturalisation certificate and restitution papers

  4. Rosa Glueck: Copy Theresienstadt id card

    Copy identity card issued by jüdisches Siedlungsgebiet Theresienstadt for Rosa Glueck, born Leipzig 1878, countersigned by Leo Baeck as Judenältester 

  5. Miscellaneous material

    Miscellaneous material

  6. Lilly Crewe: Cook book

  7. German revisionist leaflet

    Advertisement for German revisionist publications, written by Heinz Roth. Denies the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

  8. Wilfrid Israel: copy correspondence

    The material in this collection comprises copies of correspondence to and from Wilfrid Israel, the originals of which are held in archives in the UK, the USA and Israel. The letters were used by Naomi Shepherd in the research on her book Wilfrid Israel: German Jewry’s Secret Ambassador. There follows Naomi Shepherd’s introduction to the collection.Wilfrid Israel was a prolific letter writer and this collection indicates the breadth of his interests and activities including pacifism and internationalism during the first two decades of the 20th century; Zionism- in which he was a follower of ...

  11. Return of displaced persons at Hamburger Ring Displaced Persons Camp

    Return of displaced persons at Hamburger Ring Displaced Persons CampIt seems to have been annotated by the former commandant of the camp who notes that not all of the inmates are ‘real DPs', having arrived there well before the end of the war.

  12. Yom Hashoah 2008

  14. Mahatma Gandhi: "If I were a Jew"

    Article by Mahatma Gandhi published in the World Digest of Current Fact and Comment, entitled "If I were a Jew"

  15. Personal account of the life of Otto Hirsch

    This personal account of the life of Otto Hirsch was intended to be included in the WL eyewitness testimonies series. It retains the original reference number (PI.d. No. 362) but for some unknown reason was not integrated into this series.

  17. Yom Hashoah 2005

  18. United Restitution Office: Copy correspondence

    This collection consists of copy correspondence between former employees of the United Restitution Office at their branches in Paris and London.