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Language of Description: English
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  1. Hilde Walter: experiences of the Third Reich

    The report covers, amongst other things, the following subjects: the author's experience as a journalist on newspapers published by Rudolf Mosse Verlag; the publication and editing of Weltbühne; activities of the Berlin-Wilmersdorf branch of the SPD; membership of the Soroptimist Club, international association for professional women; administration and tenancy of the so-called Künstlerkolonie.

  2. Edmund Hamber papers

    This collection consists of the letters which Edmund Hamber wrote to his children while he was incarcerated in Dachau concentration camp. In addition there are copy family photographs, copy article re the Hamber brothers and Kiba and sundry other material.

  3. Copy extracts of secret Hungarian documents re British involvement in the history of Hungary

    Die Rolle Grossbritanniens in der Geschichte Ungarns in den Jahren 1937-1945: copy extract reports by Hungarian foreign office officials re the role of Britain in the history of Hungary, 1937-1945This chronological sequence of select reports by Hungarian foreign office officials of meetings and discussions with British foreign office officials and secret service agents sheds some light on the background to relations between the two countries immediately before and during World War II.8 pages

  5. Documentation re Jews in Piaski, Poland

    Documentation re Jews in Piaski, Poland 

  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. Joe Quittner personal papers

    This collection comprises certificates; personal correspondence; material re education/ training; material pertaining to Joe Quittner's refugee experience; miscellaneous papers including detailed inventory of the collection

  8. 'Housed Memory': publicity material

    The publicity material in this collection relates to the work of Uriel Orlow, one time artist-in-residence at the Wiener Library. The final version of his work, 'Housed Memory'can be seen at WL Video 1355/1-6.

  9. Grete Sacki (Mayer): Personal papers

  10. Abram Wolraich collection

    The collection consists of 5 pdfs containing 251 pages of documents and correspondence with and on Abram Wolraich regarding his care after arriving in Britain, as well as a presentation for schools on Abram’s life.

  11. Ernst Fraenkel: De-nazification notice

    De-nazification notice in the form of a postcard from the “Hessisches Staatministerium. Minister für politische Befreiung … Frankfurt-Main” addressed to Mr. Fraenkel (born 5.4.1891) in Frankfurt. 

  12. Antisemitism in Spain: reports and correspondence

    A miscellaneous collection of reports and correspondence documenting antisemitism and the situation of Jewish refugees in Spain and Spanish Morocco in the 1930s. A number of organisations are represented.

  13. Office of US Chief of Counsel: interrogation summary

    This interrogation summary deals with medical treatment/ abuse at Dachau concentration camp.

  14. Copy letter from foreign minister von Neurath to Hitler

    Copy letter from von Neurath, foreign minister, to Hitler stating that Mussolini has declared himself prepared to deny reports about the persecution of Jews in Germany 

  15. Marion Sipser: family papers

  16. Hans Schäffer: catalogue to diaries and other papers - no date

    This collection consists of the copy archival catalogue to the diaries and other papers of Hans Schäffer, formerly ministerial official and finance expert during the Weimar era. The original diaries are owned by the Wiener Library and are on permanent loan at the archive of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München which produced the catalogue. In addition to the catalogue and related papers there are two additional items, the provenance of which is not known. These are a partial copy of an analysis of the economic crisis of the early 1930s (951/3) and unidentified material relating to Germa...

  17. Prof. Ernst Fraenkel: correspondence and personal papers

    This collection consists of some personal papers of professor Ernst Fraenkel and correspondence between him and Kapitän Leutnant Kraus of the German Defence Ministry press office regarding Jews who fought for Germany in the two World Wars.

  18. American Friends Service Committee: Refugee hostel papers

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

  19. Interviews with German generals - not dated

    This undated copy typescript account was apparently written by a German female stenographer working in Paris for the US Historical section. Her narrative describes visits to 'Le Petit Chesnay' and later Hennemont Castle where German generals (eg von Lüttwitz, Schramm, Bayerlein) were held captive. She describes the atmosphere and gives an account of Schramm's report.

  20. Various eyewitness statements

    A collection of eyewitness statements pertaining variously to war crimes in and experiences of Auschwitz; experiences  and condititons in Terezin; experience of a Christian anti-Nazi school teacher during the Third Reich