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Language of Description: English

  1. Memo re teaching of history

  2. German Government: Holocaust Memorial day papers

    This collection consists of various papers, mostly speech transcripts from the German president and chancellor on Holocaust Memorial Day, 2000.

  3. Commemoration speech by President Roman Herzog

    This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

  4. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland

    Readers need to resrve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.The material consists of correspondence of both the Reichsvereinigung and Reichsvertretung; contemporary press extracts relating to both organisations; various reports and papers providing statistical data on the Jewish population in Germany, with particular reference to the expropriation of Jewish property

  5. Elli Kamm: personal papers on Terezin ghetto

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elli Kamm relating to her and her sister's restitution claim.Personal papers Including restitution papers, eyewitness testimonies, Elli Kamm's 'Arbeitsbuch' and various work references.English, German

  6. Rolf Oppenheimer: family papers

    This collection comprises one folder containing the personal papers of Rolf Oppenheimer including his father's WWI Iron Cross certificate, work references, RAF application papers, naturalisation papers; also his uncle, Walter Fels' restitution claim including an affidavit from Ernst Niquet confirming that he hid Walter Fels in Berlin during the latter years of the war. In an audio interview the donor describes life in Berlin during the Novemberpogrom, 1938 prior to coming to Great Britain, including his membership of the Hitler Youth; details of the desperation of residents trying to l...

  7. Austrian League: Letter re Bavarian Movement

    Letter calling for the founding of a ‘Free Bavarian Movement' by Otto Hecht of the Austrian League 

  9. Report entitled league of Nations and racial persecution in Germany

    Typescript report entitled The League of Nations and Racial Persecution in Germany, designated ‘Strictly Confidential- not to be communicated' with the following sub-headings: ‘International representation against persecution before the foundation of the league'; ‘Position since the foundation of the league'; ‘Position of minorities in Germany'; ‘Possibility of Action under the covenant'; ‘Procedure before the League'; ‘Importance of action'English 6 pages 

  10. Ludwig Guttmann collection

  11. Dorothea Strauss: Journals of the family and other papers

    This collection comprises a copy English translation of the journals of the family history: original by Dorothea Strauss, translation by Eugene Strauss, her youngest son. Note that what remains of the original still resides with the donor. Also included are copies of Red Cross telegrams between other family members, Alfred and Edmund Lehmann, Kaethe Cohn and Gerda Strauss

  12. Letter from Mrs. Adamkova, Prague

  13. Isaac Coutinho: copy testament

    This collection consists of the copy testament of Isaac Couthino, dated 1897, Hamburg, and authenticated on 17 November 1964. It also contains a copy newspaper article reporting on the murder of Mrs Carmen Blanck-Sichel.

  15. National Front: leaflet opposed to immigration of Hong Kong residents

    This leaflet produced by the National front was designed to instil fear into British people of a large influx of Hong Kong residents in the wake of the handover the territories by the British government to the Chinese government.

  16. Report on the extermination of the Jews in Europe - not dated

    Copy report on the Nazi extermination camps. The facts within the report are allegedly based upon the testimonies of both Jews who witnessed mass killings and SS personnel who were guards at the camp.

  17. Martin Berger collection

    The papers reflect his interests in and membership of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, The Trade Union Centre for German Workers in Great Britain and the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain.

  18. Eric Colebeck stamp collection

    A collection of stamps commemorating the Holocaust arranged into 10 volumes covering the following subjects: resistance and anti-nazi fighters who showed outstanding courage; events such as the massacre at Lidice; martyred cities; concentration camps; special memorials and museums. All of the material is accompanied by detailed descriptions.

  19. Copy documents re 1936 Olympics

    Copy documents concerning preparations for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

  20. Ludwig Bieder: correspondence and papers

    This collection documents the lives of members of an Austrian Jewish family whose destinies were forever changed by the rise of Nazism. The papers date from immediately after the Anschluss until the 1950s, by which time the surviving members had settled in their newly adopted countries. The largest group of letters date from 1938-1939, after Ludwig Bieder left Austria for Switzerland and before he departed for New Zealand. The principal subjects are his desperate attempts to extricate his parents from Vienna to a safe haven; his efforts to obtain a visa for himself; and his love affair with...