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  1. Holocaust remembrance 2004

  2. Hannele Kuhn: family papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and...

  3. Otto Bondy: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Otto Bondy, German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain and civil engineer, and that of his wife, Ursula Meyer.

  4. Joyce Rozendaal Haldinstein: letters

    The correspondence includes letters from Joyce in Holland and Switzerland and letters from friends in Great Britain and USA. Also included is the issue of the Dutch journal Sliepsteen, Spring 1998, No. 55, whose main feature is an article on Joyce Rozendaal Haldinstein.

  6. Lodz ghetto: copy registration cards

    This collection consists of a photocopy of the registration cards of Isaak and Martha Teich-Birken, confirming their entry to and departure from the Lodz Ghetto, Poland. In addition to their personal details, the precise date of entry and departure is given.

  7. Frank family collection

    This collection consists of copy Red Cross telegrams between members of the Frank family during the war and with a people tracing agency after the war.

  9. Dr Richard Michels: personal papers

    This collection consists of correspondence and journals of Richard Michels, mostly whilst on board a variety of ships in his capacity as ship's doctor c1900; some photographs; and typescript accounts of Kempen, Posen by a relative on his wife's side of the family. The correspondence consists of folders of loose letters and bound volumes of letterbooks and journals. All of it is from Richard Michels to his mother.

  10. Inow family: copy correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence between Renate Inow, in England, her sister, Margalit in Sweden and Palestine and their parents in Wuppertal, Germany. The collection comprises 2 parts: an unbound volume of translations and partial translations of letters addressed to Margalit mostly whilst she was in Sweden entitled 'Voices from the Past'. This collection includes reproductions of photographs of the parents and a family tree. Margalit provides the following information in the introduction. She began collecting letters from her parents after Kristallnacht, and, after May 1939, fro...

  11. Copy papers re Rudolf Hess in Spandau

    This collection consists of copy papers relating to the imprisonment of Rudolf Hess in Spandau. The collection includes correspondence between Alfred Seidl, Hess's former defence attorney at Nuremberg and author of a number of books on Hess, and prominent politicians and public figures, who had some influence over or interestin Hess's continued imprisonment. In addition there is an affidavit from Hess' wife who testifies to a meeting shortly before Hess' flight to Scotland between Hess and Hitler. Included also are copies of contemporary documents relating to Hess.

  12. Erica Prean: account of Reichskristallnacht in Aachen

    Account of Reichskristallnacht in Aachen 

  13. Leon Goldenberg: copy military service record

    This copy service record of Leon Goldenberg documents his service in the Landwehr of the Austro-Hungarian army.

  14. Valerie and Andrea Wolffenstein: correspondence and papers

    This collection consists mainly of correspondence from friends and acquaintances of Valerie and Andrea Wolffenstein, 2 sisters of Jewish origins, who converted to Christianity and who managed to survive the war in hiding in Germany. It comprises mostly reminiscences and birthday wishes etc

  15. Traunstein DP camp: press cuttings re exhibition

    This collection consists of copy press cuttings relating to an exhibition put on by the Traunstein Stadtarchiv, "Ein Leben aufs Neu. Juedische Displaced Persons auf deutschem Boden, 1945-1948".

  17. 'Hidden Jews of Berlin': transcript interviews

    This collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted for the TV programme The Hidden Jews of Berlin. Also floppy disk of the same. The subjects include detailed accounts of life in hiding in Berlin during World War II; experience of capture, interrogation by Jewish collaborators and Gestapo and betrayal by Jews; Mischlinge; Fabrikation; Siemens; Rosenstrasse protest; Grosse Hamburger Strasse; life in Berlin before the war.

  19. Josef Mueller: war crimes trial copy papers

    This collection of material came about as a result of research into the events that took place in Plaszow concentration camp, in particular the crimes and testimony of Josef Mueller, one of the former commandants. The papers consist of the trial judgement, a transcript of his interrogation and various statements in the case against Mueller. There are also numerous statements from Mueller, acting as a witness in the trials of other defendants. Also included is correspondence between the depositor and the Wiener Library.

  20. Wilhelm Rosenbaum: copy verdict in war crimes trial

    This document comprises copy extracts from the verdict and judgment in the case against Wilhelm Karl Johannes Rosenbaum