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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Correspondence and papers regarding Georg August Welz

    This collection of correspondence relates to a letter which Elizabeth Castonier had published in the Süddeutscher Zeitung in August 1958, alleging the culpability of Professor Georg August Weltz, then Professor of X-Ray Physiology at the university of Munich, in war crimes, specifically medical experiments on prisoners to test how their bodies react to extremely cold temperatures. The collection includes a copy of an affidavit by Weltz, dated 1946. 

  2. Ruth Sommerfeld: papers relating to Werner Somsohn's publication

    This collection contains press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera').Press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera'). Also included are speeches held at the honorary citizen awards ceremony for Simsohn in 1998, and draft extract from his publication regarding the Jewish families from Gera bearing the name Wernik.German

  3. Switzerland and Jewish refugees: Reports by JUNA and other material

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material on the fate of Jews and Switzerland during the Nazi era, comprises several deposits, the first three of which share the same provenance, the other two being unrelated. Parts of this archive were used to create the three dossiers in this collection.The three dossiers, all produced in 1955, and apparently emanating from the same source, have been produced in the same format. Namely, an introductory essay on a topic punctuated by references to related transcript documents (Be...

  4. Peter Johnson: Personal papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of Peter Johnson's personal papers documents his life up until the immediate post-war period. It includes school reports, family correspondence, documents re naturalisation, papers relating to his service in military intelligence, and papers relating to the former Jewish population in Hildesheim, where he was stationed at the end of the war. Also deposited by Peter Johnson, the bulk of which collection relates to the activities of the refugee social club 'Hyphen', of which he was one of the foun...

  5. Account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience

    Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in BerlinGerman 30 pages 

  6. Raphael Lemkin papers

    This collection of Raphael Lemkin's papers documents his intense interest in the subject of genocide. The originals are held at the New York Public Library, from which the text of the following catalogue was obtained. The papers largely document Lemkin's intense interest in the subject of genocide. With the exception of a draft of his autobiography, Unofficial Man, the collection contains very little personal material. The correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, with public officials, newspapers, academics, and religious groups. It relates to Lemkin's struggle for support for the rati...

  7. Georg Fuchs: family correspondence

    Family papers including letters between George Fuchs and his girlfriend Eva Hellmann (1929-1944), family photographs, correspondence regarding the fate of cousin Franz Dietrich Schweizer, official certificate of the deportation of Georg Fuchs's mother, Georg Fuch's brief biographical account, copy press cutting regarding the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk (1986), as well as personal documents such as birth certificate, certificates of qualifications, testimonials of employment, soldier's service and pay book, Czech World War II medal, Czech passport, certificate of release from Czech na...

  8. John Eversley Family Papers

    Family papers of David Eversley (1921 - 1995) Memorabilia, photographs, newspaperclippings and maps of Frankfurt (c 1932 - 1957); Printed leaflets relating to Frankfurt (1922 - 1950); Various personal correspondence addressed to Otto and Adele Eberstadt (1949 - 1969); Various printed material relating to Jewish heritage (1966 - 1991); Newspaperclippings relating to Fernanda Eberstadt (1991 - 1992); Various documents and correspondence relating to Twelve Force (1991 - 1997); Printed material relating to David Irving (1989 - 1990); Various personal and official corrsepondence by David Eversle...

  9. Kulturbund Deutscher Juden: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.I: original correspondence between the Polizeipräsident of Berlin and the KBDJ concerning all the activities of the organisation, eg. Theatrical performances, engagement of the actors, venues etc, 1933-1935R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\29 Frames 392-632II: Forbidden Jewish texts including essays, lectures, poems, play scripts, short stories, anecdotes etcR:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\29 Frames 633-1203; R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\30 Frames 1-187III: G...

  10. Paul Plaut: correspondence

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThe collection is entirely non-political. Unintentionally it is, however, a vivid illustration of the 'brain drain' which hit Germany and Austria a few years later. A large number of contributors were amongst the best known emigrants. Some did not survive the Holocaust.The responses are arranged alphabetically by correspondent into folders, 647/1-25. A few of the responses which are not related to Plaut's book have been subsumed into the main alphabetical series. At folder 647/26 there are some unidentified let...

  11. International Tracing Service- Child search Branch: Papers re Lebensborn children etc

    This microfilm collection of documentation apparently emanating from the offices of the International Tracing Service deals in large part with children adopted by the Lebensborn programme.

  12. Hammerschlag and Stein families: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Istvan and Eva Stein, Hungarian Jews from Budapest who emigrated to Cairo in 1938 whilst some members of their family stayed behind and perished in the Holocaust. 

  13. Papers of A.Z. Steinberg

    Personal papers and correspondence with family members, 1897-1972 Working papers and typescripts, 1923-77, including papers and publications on philosophy (largely in Russian), with works by Andrei Bely; copies of articles and chapters from works by Steinberg, especially his works on Dostoevsky, and the Aaron Steinberg memorial volume THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF HISTORY, UNIVERSAL AND JEWISH: SELECTED ESSAYS (1910-1970) World Jewish Congress papers, 1943-69; Unesco papers, 1948-62; and papers of Mrs Assi Klausner, Steinberg's assistant.

  14. Friedrich Ullstein: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence between Augustus ('Gus') and Bartholomew ('Bart') Ullstein and their parents whilst the boys were at Bradfield College discussing family matters and expressing political opinions. Correspondence between Augustus ('Gus') and Bartholomew ('Bart') Ullstein and their parents whilst the boys were at Bradfield College discussing family matters and expressing political opinions. Also included are press cuttings regarding the centenary of the death of Leopold Ullstein in 1999 and a photograph of Frederick Ullstein.

  15. Sudetenland Jews: reports

    All three reports deal with the position of Jews in Sudetenland but vary in their specific subject matter. the first (-/1) concentrates on the situation as it effects Jews in various Sudetenland towns and cities. The second (-/2) reviews conditions for Jews throughout the whole of Sudetenland under the headings of 'welfare', 'old people's homes', 'children's schooling' and 'emigration'.The third report (-/3) reviews the social, economic and legal situation of the Jews in Sudetenland and recommends action to address problems arising from the report.

  16. Third Reich: Personal accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection comprises two deposits whose relationship to each other is not known. The first consists of correspondence and reports concerning participants in two famous acts of protest during the Third Reich: the Rosenstrasse Protest in which the (mostly) Aryan partners of a specially segregated group of Jewish prisoners protested at their detention by the Nazis in a former welfare office for the Jewish community in Berlin, 1943; Das Sovjet-Paradies Aktion in which 500 Jews and Germans were arres...

  17. Cohn family papers

    This collection contains the business and personal papers of three generations of the Cohn family: Documents belonging to Joseph and Johanna Cohn's papers such as a publican licence, wills and title deeds. Business and personal papers of Heinrich (Heimann) Cohn, including contracts and ac-counts booklets relating to his companies, letters to his wife and mother, as well as a re-quest from his mother-in-law Hedwig Lesheim to allow Heinrich’s family to move to Berlin. Correspondence re restitution claims by Ella Cohn and Herbert Curtis.

  18. Renate Klapper: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Renate Klapper, a Jewish girl from Berlin who was sent to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to escape Nazi persecution whilst her family died at Auschwitz concentration camp.Personal papers including her school certificates (1684/1), wartime correspondence with her mother sent via the British Red Cross Message Bureau (1684/2), honorary membership certificate of the Royal College of Midwives (1684/3), two photocopies of her will (1684/4), two copies of her death certificate (1684/5), valuation documents of two properties in Ger...

  19. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  20. Johannes Kohl: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Johannes Kohl, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to the UK via Holland in 1939.Personal papers including his membership card of the Austrian Centre in London; an information guide for Jewish refugees in England and press cutting from the Kleine Volkszeitung (5 May 1938) regarding the execution of a Jewish criminal in Paris.