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  1. Bergmann family collection

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access an audio interview with the donor.

  2. Benario family: copy genealogical papers and copy papers re Olga Benario-Prestes

    This collection consists of two distinct though related groups of copy papers. The first documents, in part, the relatively short but eventful life of the German Jewess, Olga Benario, a short biographical sketch of whom follows. Also contained are copy papers which document the Benario family history. The order in which the latter arrived remains unchanged. Also included are some copy papers, which document the fate of Rudolph Benario, a family member, who was imprisoned on account of his activities as a member of the Communist Party.

  4. Central Verein Berlin: reports of interviews with individuals re antisemitism

    The papers are reports of interviews, which Wiener had with various individuals concerned with trying to influence antisemitic agitation by Hitler. The individuals are Dr Planck, Staatssekretär der Reichskanzlei; von Steinau-Steinrück, the personal representative of the interior minister; and Alfred Leonhard Tietz

  5. Copy correspondence with newspaper editors and academics re articles about Israel

    Copy correspondence with newspaper editors and academics re articles about Israel 

  6. World Jewish Congress: memorandum on genocide

    This document contains observations and comments by the World Jewish Congress on the United Nations' Draft Convention on Genocide

  7. Bekennende Kirche: various papers

    This material relates to the growing opposition to the Nazi-supported German Christian Movement by members of the German Evangelical community. In particular, the newly formed Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) rejected the authority of the National Synod which was presided over by Nazis and demanded allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Correspondents include pastor Heinrich Vogel; Otto Dibelius, general superintendent of the Brandenburg Church; Albertz, superintendent of the Bekennende Kirche, Berlin-Brandenburg; Dr Duckert, Gauobmann Deutsche Christen.

  8. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: reports re conditions

    Two reports which deal with conditions, particularly for Jews, under the Nazis in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939.

  9. Hans Globke: deposition concerning Jewish name changes in the Third Reich

    This is an original signed statement by Hans Globke, formerly chief adviser to Konrad Adenauer and earlier, official commentator on the Nuremberg Racial Laws. The statement deals with the provision of names denoting the Jewish origins of German citizens. The document is typescript with corrections apparently initialled, signed and dated by Globke.

  10. Galewsky family collection

  11. Dr Robert Michaelis: working papers for book on the Dreyfus affair

    This collection consists of the working papers of Dr. Robert Michaelis for his two publications on the Dreyfus affair.

  12. Hamburg-Amerika Linie: Copy notice re illegal emigration to Palestine

    Copy of a notice from the Hamburg Amerika Linie, travel company, Breslau office, re sailings and prices for illegal emigration to PalestineGerman 

  13. Second Generation Conference, 1997: Miscellaneous material

    Second Generation Conference, 1997: Miscellaneous material 

  14. Copy letter re contract with Jewish company, Kiel

    Copy letter from Dr. Moeller, a lawyer in Kiel, to a German carpenter, who tried to avoid a contract he had entered into with a Jewish firm. 

  16. Air raid wardens' papers

  17. Papers re Lichtenstein and Rothschild families

    The material in this collection allows insights in life and persecution of members of two Jewish families from Austria and Germany. While the rather administrational documents refer primarily to the Lichtenstein family, the included photographs depict members and social life of the Rothschild family.

  18. NSDAP Auswaertigesamt: Copy papers re Jews in Spain and Portugal

    Various copy letters and reports re Jews in Spain and Portugal including 2 separate reports of a meeting of the ‘jüdischen Kulturverein in Barcelona, 24 March 1936 [-/4 & 5], which was apparently founded by expatriate German JewsGermanThe subject matter ranges from reports on the situation of Jews in Germany to reports on the proceedings of meetings of Jewish cultural groups in Spain and Portugal, c1936.

  20. 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.