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  1. Peter Andreas Nonnengardt-Nouvelot: papers re imprisonment in North Africa

    Peter Andreas Nonnengardt-Nouvelot: papers re imprisonment in North Africa 

  2. Esther Brunstein: text of speech given at UN

    This document is the text of a speech made by Esther Brunstein at the United Nations Building, New York, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  4. Documents on occupied Norway

    German documents on occupied Normandy, above all addressing propaganda and education.

  5. Overview of French anti-Jewish legislation

    Copy report on French anti-Jewish legislationThe report includes the following subjects: general statistics on the French Jewish population; definition of a Jew; Jewish professional activities; Jewish property; Jewish capital; the treatment of foreign JewsThe original was probably written sometime shortly after the second Statut des juifs, 2 June 1941, of the Vichy Regime since this legislation is consistently referred to throughout.7 pages

  6. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  7. Moritz Plaut: biography

    This biography of Moritz Plaut, a banker, and resident of Berlin (1822-1910) was written by his daughters, Franziska Model, Margarethe Lehmann, Susanne Blumenthal and published, with original photographs pasted in, in June 1922.

  8. Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material

    Kartell Conventus: Miscellaneous material 

  9. Holocaust survivor interview transcripts

    The transcribed life stories of Holocaust surviviors in this collection are the result of Freda Kosmin’s efforts to record and preserve the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust, paying particular attention to what they achieved after the war. The project was therefore given the title: How Hitler failed: From Survival to Success.The project was instigated when Freda met one of the interviewees then saw him speak publicly about his experiences. He agreed to be interviewed by Freda and also recommended other potential interviewees. There are 7 interview transcripts in total, each seve...

  10. Margot Brauer collection

    Margot Brauer collection 

  11. Report re Dr. Josef Fadenhecht and Bulgarian Jews

    Report on Dr. Josef Fadenhecht, a Bulgarian Jewish teacher and lawyer, and on Bulgarian Jewry in general.The report is typescript, 14 pages, and has been annotated with the year 1944. The author is Klaus Schickert. The tenor is antisemitic.

  12. Goldstaub family papers

    Personal papers of the Goldstaub family

  13. Dr Walter Gross: Lecture

    Lecture from Dr Walter Gross in which he stresses the importance of propaganda as a tool to influence the masses particularly in relation to the propagation of Nazi racial ideology.Typescript. German. 3 pages 

  14. Kobylinski family: correspondence during internment

    This collection consists of correspondence between Else and Sigismund Kobylinski, German Jewish refugees, during their internment on the Isle of Man in Summer and Autumn 1940. The correspondents came to Great Britain in 1939, their children having emigrated some years earlier.

  15. Shoah Centre, Manchester

    This collection consists of a 'conceptual brief' by Bill Williams and an 'Architectural Brief' by Daniel Liebeskind for the proposed 'Shoah Centre' to be situated adjacent to the Imperial War Museum of the North.

  16. World Jewish Congress: material re first congress

    This collection includes letters, declarations and other material regarding the first meeting of the World Jewish Congress held in Geneva between 8 and 14 August 1936. Correspondents and contributors in this collection include Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, Simon Dubnow, Lord Robert Cecil, Sir Neil Malcolm, Stephen Wise, Dr Nahum Goldmann, Henri Berenger, Dr J Niemirower.

  17. Patricia Corren: family papers

  18. Pages of the book, 'Bolshevism and Jewry'

    Copy of cover and foreword of the book Bolschewismus und Judentum: Das Jüdische Element in der Führerschaft des Bolschewismus written by Herman Fehst. The book was first published in 1934. The publishing house is either the Eckart-Kampf-Verlag/Berlin or the U. Bodung-Verlag/Erfurt. The latter is founded by Ulrich Fleischhauer, a prominent publisher of anti-Semitic pamphlets such as the anti-Semitic encyclopedia Sigilla Veri (seal of truth) and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

  19. Correspondence and papers regarding Georg August Welz

    This collection of correspondence relates to a letter which Elizabeth Castonier had published in the Süddeutscher Zeitung in August 1958, alleging the culpability of Professor Georg August Weltz, then Professor of X-Ray Physiology at the university of Munich, in war crimes, specifically medical experiments on prisoners to test how their bodies react to extremely cold temperatures. The collection includes a copy of an affidavit by Weltz, dated 1946. 

  20. British National party: leaflets

    Leaflets from the London and Kent area, contains appeal against a planned mosque in LondonEnglish