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Language of Description: English

  2. Mira Hamermesh family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to Mira Hamermesh including  correspondence between Mira and father, Genia, 1938-1940 (1862/1/1-20); general correspondence, 1939-1940 (1862/2/1-21); Correspondence Mira to Mietek with transcriptions, 1942-1943 (1862/3/1-30); postcards from Mira's parents to Mira with translations (1862/4/1-12) copy photographs (1862/5); obituaries (1862/6-7); a chronology of Mira's life (1862/8); personal account by Mira Hamermesh (1862/9); Fay Weldon's introduction to The River of Angry Dogs (1862/10) 

  3. Letter from Dr Georg Brdiczka

    Letter from Dr Georg Brdiczka to Paul (?) asking for assistance with finding workEnglish 

  4. Copy telegram re removal of Jews from Marseille to Compeigne

    Copy telegram, signed Schleier, re an order by the SD to remove foreigners, mainly Jews, from Marseille district to Camp in CompiègneGerman 

  6. Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck

    Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck including typescript notes of a meeting between Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Leo Baeck, October 1955 (1156/9)This collection of correspondence between Leo Baeck and Mrs Ilse Grimbly, Leo Baeck's former secretary, is mostly of an ephemeral nature.

  7. Paula Rosenzweig: Copybook

  8. German Jewish doctors: List of suicides/ murdered

    List of German Jewish doctors who either committed suicide or were murdered between 1933 and 1939.

  9. 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.

  10. Photograph of portrait of Luise Hensel

    a mounted photograph of an original pencil drawing by W. Hensel, depicts Luise Hensel (the famous Catholic poet, d. 1876?), in 19th century garb

  12. Miscellaneous collections

    This collection of documents and images came about as the consequence of an appeal made in the May 1962 issue of the AJR Information, by the Council for Jews from Germany, for memorabilia and documents of Germany Jewry, of historical and artistic value, for the Memorial Hall to German Jewry at the Wiener Library.

  13. Annie Jacob: Personal account

    Annie Jacob: personal account of the war years including  a period of incarceration at Gurs internment camp 

  15. Correspondence re refugees from Czechoslovakia

  16. Copy documents re status of non-denominational Jews

    These copy documents shed some light on the experiences of non-religious Jews during the Nazi era.They were transcribed and copied by the depositor.

  17. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  19. Hadjeret el Meguil, Algeria: Various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents concerning life in Hadjeret el Meguil and other internment camps in Vichy North Africa was, according to a covering note at the beginning of the collection, donated to the Wiener Library, by way of gratitude for the assistance that was given to the depositor with respect to his restitution claims.Material re camps in North Africa including the following:Type-written copy of a novel, "Levinstein", by Peter Andreas, based on his experiences in forced labour units ...

  20. Lodz ghetto: various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of facsimile documentation from the Lodz ghetto comprises at least two separate deposits and sheds light on the controversial role of the chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Rumkowski. One of the documents in this collection is a fragment of a calendar covering part of the year 1942. The front bears an image of Rumkowski with the ghetto in the background and the month of January opens with the slogans 'work', 'bread', 'care of the sick', protection for the children', 'peace ...