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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    This large series of correspondence, traditionally referred to as the 'Pre 1963 Correspondence', broadly covers the period from the immediate aftermath of World War Two to just after Alfred Wiener's death. It covers a vast array of subject matter and contains 1600 correspondents including politicians, historians, theologians, resistance fighters, Holocaust survivors, civil servants and private researchers. Some of the more widely covered themes include Christian-Jewish relations; historiography; eyewitness testimony; restitution claims; postwar antisemitism

  2. Adolf Barta collection

  3. Ilse Frankenbusch collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, along with some family papers, of the Frankenbusch family. Most of the correspondence is between Ilse, her mother Hulde and grandmother Gisela, while they were living in separate countries during the Second World War. Correspondence also documents Ilse’s attempts to send financial aid to her mother after the surrender of France.

  4. Union Österreichischer Juden: Archives

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  5. Sally Grabenheimer collection

    Copy document and printed antisemitic slogans

  7. Stettin Jewish Community archives

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  8. Grant Rechnic collection

  9. Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend: Archives

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  10. Brotherhood

  11. Jack Scott collection

    The collection consists of the personal and family paper of Jakob Schloss/ Jack Scott, including wartime documentation of his own war service and his father’s deportation from France, and later documentation of memorials and tributes to Baruch Schloss and Jack’s commando. It also includes photographs of family members and memorial sites.

  12. Geoffrey Marx collection

    The collection consists of material belonging to the Marx and Eversfield families, the vast majority from Marika Szücs/ Lӧw-Beer/ Eversfield/ Rotter. Includes a large amount of wartime and post-war correspondence between England and Hungary (including letter informing Marika of her mother’s death at Auschwitz), personal and family papers documenting immigration, and collection of Marika’s art, fashion and advertising work.

  13. Correggio Jewish community: Archives

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  14. Olga Warburg collection

    The collection comprises extensive childhood memoirs written by Olga Lachmann née Warburg during her time in Amsterdam, as well as other family papers including business correspondence of her father regarding ‘the Jewish question’, and records of Olga’s family.

  15. Jervis Royalton Roe collection

    Jervis Royalton Roe: personal account of political events in Austria, 1938; two diaries documenting his war-time experiences

  16. CD 2

  17. Jeremiah Heinemann: papers

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  18. Gabriele Weil collection

    This collection includes family papers of the Weil family and their relatives, such as birth, death and marriage certificates, papers detailing Kurt Weil and his family’s attempts to emigrate from Germany, family trees, family photographs, and medals from the First World War. It also includes extensive family correspondence: between different branches of the family after they immigrated, between Kurt and his sister Dr Else Weil, and between Kurt and his family while he was interned in Onchan Camp. There is also documentation of Dr Else Weil’s life, and later correspondence between Gabriele ...

  19. Aleksander Dyzenhaus collection

  20. Janina Szereszewska collection

    This collection contains identity documents, correspondence, affidavits and restitution claim material