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  1. 'The Cedar Boys', Waddesdon collection

    This collection contains mostly copy papers and photographs pertaining to the Steinhardt family, Waddesdon Manor and the Flersheim-Sichel-Stiftung.Audio interview with the donor, Helga Brown, who describes how she and her family lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s; that her father ran the Jewish orphanage school, Philanthropin, having been forced out of his teaching post at a state school; how her sister persuaded the UK branch of the Rothschild banking family to support and fund the relocation of the boys to Waddesdon Hall, Buckinghamshire; how Julian Lyton played a key role in the pro...

  2. Marie Rosenberg: documents re restitution claim

    Papers which document a restitution claim by Marie Rosenberg.

  3. Miscellaneous material

    Folder of miscellaneous material in an apparently original folder of the Reichsfilmkammer including material re the funeral service for the painter Leo Lesser Ury; open letter from Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, President of the Amateur Atheletic Union of America to the president of he organising committee for the 1936 Olympics; correspondence re the newspaper, der Judenkenner; newspaper cuttings on a variety of subjects and more

  4. List of SS men in Auschwitz

    Typescript list of former SS men at Auschwitz given by Max Bryskier and Lucian Den (presumably former inmates) at Canobbio-Lugano, Castello die Trevano. The list of five names gives brief details of the SS men's crimes.German 1 page 

  5. Edgar Duchin: working papers re refugees from Nazi Europe

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection of papers relating to the fate of refugees from Nazi Europe was part of the working papers of Edgar Duchin (formerly Duchinsky), a solicitor who worked on behalf of refugees. A number of organisations dealing with the problems of refugees are represented. The papers at -/5 which document his activities viz representing the interests of individual refugees and his presence on a number of committees involved in similar work are testament to his commitment to the cause of refugees.

  6. Wehrmacht: Copy instructions re management of troops

    Copy translation of ‘Special issue of notes for the officer corps' issued by the High Command of the Wehrmacht under the following headings ‘the morale of troops must be raised'; ‘false interpretation of the word surrender'; ‘it is urgently necessary to make clear to the troops the exact sense of this conception on the part of the general'; ‘when and why officers must save themselves'; ‘instructions for the handling of soldiers' GPS' 

  7. Cahn family: copy correspondence

  8. Sayeed: Book list

    List of books supplied by Mrs Sayeed to the British Library, Department of Oriental manuscripts and the Mocatta Library, UCL. 

  9. Henny Levin family papers

    Kurt Steiner papers (1867/1) including Jewish passport, birth, marriage, death, school and naturalisation certificates, 1927-1966; Ilse Steiner papers (1867/2) including birth and marriage certificates, war time correspondence with mother, restitution claim material, passport and will 1938-1963; Richard Steiner papers (1867/3) including birth certificate, Familien Stammbuch, residency permit, WWI Iron Cross citation, 1884-1939; Else Steiner papers (1867/4) including birth certificate, residency permit, marriage certificate, naturalisation certificate, death certificate,1911-1983; Beatrice L...

  10. Notes re nazi war crimes

    Typescript documents detailing Nazi crimes. Each document is laid out in the following format: Name of accused (often initials); Date and place of commission of alleged crime; Number and description of crime in War crimes list; Short statement of facts; Particulars of alleged crime; Particulars of evidence in support. The crimes include: Jewish cemetery desecration, Krefeld, 1942-1944; murder in Aachen, 1938; kidnapping and murder in Wuppertal, 1933; deportation, terrorism, torture, Berlin, 1940s; murder, Detmold, 1933

  11. Frank Saalfeld: Family papers

    This collection comprises the following folders: (1868/1) birth and death certificates, residency permit and British embassy Tehran registration certificates, 1876-1945; (1868/2) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1911-1926; (1868/3) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1913-1924; (1868/4) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1914-1933; (1868/5) correspondence to Margarethe from her sister, Hanna, 1918-1925; (1868/6) correspondence to Margarethe from Ruth Dammann, 1918-1932; 1868/7 correspondence between Margarethe and Hanna, ...

  13. Jewish associations in Erfurt: SD-RFSS file

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this collection.This file of documentation on the membership and activities of Jewish organisations in Erfurt in the 1930s reveals as much about the organisations themselves as it does about Nazi preoccupations with them.Reports and correspondence: Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens: questionnaire and papers, frames1-3Reports and correspondence: Frauengruppe des Centralvereins; membership list of jüdischer Centralverein, 30 Sep 1938, frames 4-9Israelitische Wohltätigkeitsverein "Chewra": memb...

  14. Germans in exile: List of documents

    List of documents in the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz on German exiles, 1933-1945 The collection also includes some copy documentation regarding the activities of Prinz Max zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Siegfried Rädel, c1943.

  15. Isabella Roth: personal papers

    Collection of papers of Isabella Roth, an Austrian Jewish refugee.

  16. Georg and Eva Oppenheim collection

    This collection contains copy documentation pertaining to Georg Oppenheim's legal training and career; his trial for anti-nazi activities; his post war restitution claim and original correspondence to Eva Stein from her family and Georg Oppenheim.

  17. Hebrew pamphlet: 'Power and Elite'

    This pamphlet was produced in the aftermath of Menachem Begin's election victory.

  18. Reb Hirsch Marx Uhlfelder: Copy family tree

    Copy family tree of Reb Hirsch Marx Uhlfelder compiled by his grandson Joseph Lincoln Uhlfelder, Dresden 1938 

  20. Gerald L.K. Smith: pamphlets

    This collection consists of a set of racist and anti-Semitic pamphlets and other material produced by Gerald L. K. Smith, 1898-1976. The subjects range from attacks on the Black population in the USA to 'a world Jewish conspiracy' behind the Russian Revolution and US Middle East policy amongst others.