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  1. Ralf Wachtel collection

    Ralf Wachtel collection 

  2. Auschwitz crematorium floor plan

  3. Löbl family papers

    This collection contains correspondence from the parents of Robert Löbl concerned with his safe custody in the UK. Also contained are photographs of Robert and printouts of Pages of Testimony from Yad Vashem Shoah Victims’ Database. 

  4. Antisemitism in France: various papers

    This collection consists of miscellaneous papers relating to and reporting on antisemitic organisations in France and Belgium. The organisations represented include: Rassemblement Antijuif de France; Union et Sauvegarde Juive; Centre de Documentation et de Propagande

  5. Bern: Copy court papers re libel action brought by Jewish community

    Copy papers re a private action brought by the Schweiz. Israelitischer Gemeindebund and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Bern against the Gauleitung des Bundes Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen, re a case comprising the following charges: contravening the law on trash literature; distributing pamphlets; publishing an article ‘Swiss girls beware of Jews'; and selling the brochure ‘the Zionist Protocols'.53 pages

  6. George Rigal: Reports re persecution of Jews in Russia

    Nothing is known about the circumstances surrounding the creation of these reports of Jewish persecution in the Soviet Union.

  7. Papers on Otto Schiff

    Notes, correspondence, primary documents (most photocopied) and secondary literature written or collated by A. J. Sherman and Pamela Shtazkes to write an article on Otto Schiff. Their article appeared in The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook in 2009. In addition the collection contains a similar set of materials created or collected by Joan Stiebel, who had worked closely with Schiff in the 1930s and 1940s. Particularly interesting are the drafts Stiebel wrote of a longer, unpublished memoir or autobiography of Schiff; these also examine her work with refugees after 1945.The dates...

  8. Copy report re execution of Jews

    1181/1Copy of a letter from Dr. G. Starinowsky to party member Kayser referring to a sitting of the Sondergericht in the Ukraine in which 4 death sentences were passed on Jews who were then executed. (20 Jul 1942) copy ndGerman. Barely legible 1181/2 Covering letter from the depositor 18 Apr 1957German 

  9. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  10. Ruth Biswas: correspondence

  11. Wolf and Marcelle Lemberger: Copy letter

  12. Ralph Liebman papers

    This collection comprises a hard copy word-processed history of the family by Ralph Liebman.Also included in Catalogued digital collections are scans of photographs of family members, scans of war-time letters from Harry in the USA to Ralph in England, last letter from mother in Gurs to Ralph

  13. German Confessional Church: Instructions re racial origins

    This copy correspondence of the directorate of the German Confessional Church was sent to Alfred Wiener from Pastor Niemoeller with a letter dated 9 September 1957 (1273/3).

  14. USHMM Division of Education

    This collection of short biographies of Holocaust victims and survivors was created by staff at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from interviews of survivors who described not only their own experiences but those of friends and family. The text was used to create identification cards for use in classrooms. The majority of the 37 biographies in this collection pertain to children.

  15. Jüdischer Kulturbund, Berlin: Legal case papers

    Jüdischer Kulturbund, Berlin: Legal case papers including those pertaining to Herbert Grünbaum, actor; Kurt Rosenbaum; Simon Kaplan; and Harriet Domker

  16. Rita Philip papers

    This collection comprises an original, undated, though apparently contemporary account of Fanny Moses' journey to the UK from Amsterdam without any money. Also included are a copy of the document, both a manuscript and typescript translation of the document and 2 copy photographs of Fanny Moses

  17. Copy order re confiscation of Jewish property

    Copy order from the head of the military government in Belgium and Northern France to commanders throughout the region re the confiscation of Jewish property 

  18. Medical prescription from German-Jewish doctor

    Medical prescription from German-Jewish doctor 

  19. Special collections

    The so-called 'Special Collection' is an artificial collection of numerous deposits from a variety of sources, the provenance of which was frequently not recorded.It contains a lot of propaganda material, anti-Semitic, anti-Nazi and anti-Communist; also id documents; personal papers; ephemera; documents re POWs; various currencies and artefacts; political leaflets etc.

  20. Sir Frederick G. Kenyon: Correspondence re persecuted academics in Germany

    This correspondence of Sir Frederick G. Kenyon, a British academic, addresses the problem of the persecution of academics in Germany by suggesting ways of assisting them and raising awareness about their plight.