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  1. Edith Nussbaum: personal papers

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

  2. 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 

  3. Miscellaneous material

    Miscellaneous material

  4. Lilly Crewe: Cook book

  5. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  6. German revisionist leaflet

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

  7. 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 ...

  10. 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.

  11. Yom Hashoah 2008

  13. 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"

  14. 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.

  16. de Boton family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs and two tapes; relating to the de Boton family; Dr. Yves de Boton, donor’s father, who was one of the leaders of the Resistance in southern France and who was executed by the Germans in August 1944; Esther de Boton (donor’s mother) died in 1940 and Aline, born in 1937 was taken care of and later adopted by her paternal aunt Alice de Boton and her husband Robert Bernard, later de Boton. The tapes contain interview with Mrs. Alice de Boton.

  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.

  19. Pressel family collection

    Consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Joseph and Miriam Pressel, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in Marseille, Lyon, and Paris. Includes wartime letters from the Pressels to Eli Schwerner, an uncle of Miriam in New York, requesting help to escape. Also includes similar wartime letters to Susi Pantzer, niece of Joseph Pressel, who lived in London, as well as letters to and from other family members....

  20. George John Meade collection

    The collection consists of documents, illustrations, a Nazi patch, photographs, publication, negatives, and an oral testimony documenting the experiences of George John Meade in Germany as a United States soldier during and after World War II (1939-1945).