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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Copy Correspondence re news of the Holocaust

    This collection of copy correspondence is concerned with the question of the first dissemination of information about the Holocaust. In particular the correspondence between historians and protagonists addresses Martin Gilbert's assertion that the first news of the Final Solution came via Chaim Pazner, worker in the Palestine Office in Geneva during the war. Correspondence from Dr S. Scheps, former director of the Palestine Office, Walter Laqueur, historian and co-author of Breaking the Silence, Gerhart M. Riegner, head of the World Jewish Congress, amongst others.Also included are some cop...

  3. Abraham family: Copy correspondence

    The copy correspondence in this collection documents the experiences of a German Jewish family in Berlin and England.

  4. Kristallnacht: Miscellaneous extracts and articles

    This collection consists of manuscript and typescript extracts of contemporary newspaper articles about Reichskristallnacht, and unidentified letters and notes about the same. It appears to be an artificial collection.

  5. Copy letter extract re Kristallnacht

    Copy extract of a letter describing the events of Kristallnacht in Zirndorf (near Nürnberg, Bayern?)

  6. Kristallnacht: List of synagogues destroyed and eyewitness testimonies

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content 985/1 consists of responses, most of which are dated November/ December 1939. In addition, there is a list of respondents. The project's results comprised a set of statistics on the fate of Germany's synagogues (985/2). The fate of the synagogues was still a subject of interest in 1959 as evidenced by a copy of a letter on the subject from C. C. Aronsfeld (985/3). 985/2 also contains a list dated 1960.

  7. Nuremberg and Fürth: Eyewitness testimonies of Nazi persecution

    The first item is a report of events in Nürnberg and Fürth during Kristallnacht. The second item is a copy transcript of a letter, the author and addressee of which are unknown, wherein 2 elderly women describe conditions in Germany in 1942.

  8. Antisemitic Nazi measures: copy orders

  9. French Anti-Nazi leaflet

  11. Copy papers re the case of Herschel Grynspan

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This is an artificial collection of copy documents relating to the Herschel Grynspan affair.

  13. Memo re teaching of history

  14. Diary and other writings of ordinary German women

    This collection consists of two unrelated items, both of which document the sympathetic attitudes of two ordinary German women to the Nazis and their Führer.

  16. Report on 'Der Stürmer' article re ritual murder - no date

    Report about an article in an issue of Der Stürmer in which an allegation is made of ritual murder in a small village in the Saar c1903.

  18. Refugee organisations: reports and other papers

    Miscellaneous collection of reports and other papers, which are concerned with the plight of refugees from Nazi Germany.

  19. International Committee of the Red Cross: G59 Israelites

    This collection is a microfilm copy of material owned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (G59). The creator was the Commission des Prisoniers, Internés et Civils (Commission PIC) The records pertain to the fate of European Jewry predominantly during the Nazi era. There follows an overview of the 13 sub-series with the original reference number, title and current microfilm reel number.\ G59/0: Dossiers Bachmann, Livre blanc, Exo (Extrème-Orient) 1942-1946, 4 bundles Reel 2This sub-series was created outside the original framework and retrospectively attributed to G59. Most of t...

  20. Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: Archives

    This collection is held at the Wiener Library on microfilm.