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Language of Description: English

  1. 'You ask me why I write poems'

    A German version of this short essay describing the author's motivation for writing poetry occurs as an afterword in German in the book 'Du fragst mich, warum ich Gedichte Schreibe', Anne Ranasinghe, Maro Verlag, 1944.

  2. Primo Levi material- additional

    Additional material donated by ian Thomson re his biography of Primo Levi

  3. Deutsche bank: Papers re blocked accounts

    Circulars from the Deutsche Bank re blocked accounts 

  4. Memorial publication in honour of Serge Katzmann - no date

    This memorial publication consists of drawings and cartoons by Serge Katzmann and a short script about the founding of North Holmwood Boys' Club by the depositor's father.

  5. Leopold Danziger collection

    Red Cross letters from father in Berlin  to children in UK, 1940s

  6. Report of anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania

    Report entitled ‘Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania' including lists of names, statistics, press reports, official communiqués, notices and proclamations relating to the anti-Jewish pogroms in that region of Libya, from 4-7 November 1945.English Typescript 31 pagesAccording to Renzo de Felice this is the English language version of the Libyan report Itumulti anti-ebraici in Tripolitania 4, 5, 6 e 7 Novembre 1945, issued by the Community of Libya on December 31 1945, entitled Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania and located at the Central Zionist Archive, Jerusalem (Ref. CZA/S/25/6457). The repo...

  7. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg: Letter re Spear family

    Copy letter from Bernhard Rolle of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg, to Hans Spear of Enfield Middlesex re the fate of his familyGerman 

  8. Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan

    Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan re anti-state utterances, AmsterdamAuthor unknown German I page 

  9. Berta Haas nee Baer: family documents

    Claim form for purchase of grave plot at Karlsruhe Jewish cemetery, from Julius Haas (1904); copy official documentation including a letter from the local mayor informing Berta Haas of her compulsory name change- to include ‘Sara' (1938) 

  10. Max Sanders: personal papers

    This collection consists of mostly original personal papers of Max Sander, a German Jew, who apparently came to Great Britain in 1939 and, according to an unidentified note died, in London in 1979. Little more is known about the subject beyond the following few details gleaned from the papers themselves.

  11. Chances of surviving a German concentration camp: report

    This copy report on Jewish resistance and survival in concentration camps poses a counter argument to Bruno Bettleheim's contention that camp experience created an infantile passive response, suggesting instead that inmates developed a variety of ways of resistance. This report was written in his capacity as an employee of the Dutch Sociologisch Instituut and is essentially a programme for research replete with rationale and methodology, also including a pro forma letter to authors of eyewitness testimonies seeking permission to use their accounts. Several parts of this text subsequently ap...

  12. Stiftung Hilfswerk 20. Juli 1944: Various papers

    This collection contains circular letters and papers celebrating the 75th birthday of Emil Henk; also a death notice for the same

  13. Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence

    Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence to the donor's aunt, Greta, in August 1942 just prior to deportation to Terezin; includes transcriptions, translations and a copy photograph

  14. George Deutsch: family papers

    This collection contains a set of Red Cross letters between members of the Deutsch family in London and Vienna respectively from 1940 to 1943. Also included is an undated postcard.

  15. Glossary of terms related to the Dresdner Bank with short commentary

    Glossary of terms related to the Dresdner Bank with short commentary 

  16. Book: 'Juden in Freiburg im Breisgau' with enclosures

    This book Juden in Freiburg im Breisgau was published in Trier by Gebrüder Maas & Companie, 1890

  17. Dresel family papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Dresel family including original documents, originals and translated correspondence, biographical material

  18. Jewish war orphans Holland: copy official documents

    This collection consists of case papers relating to the fate of Dutch Jewish foster children whose parents died during the Holocaust. Eleven cases are represented here, out of a total of 1363.

  19. Control Office for Germany and Austria: Copy letter to the members of the Ps/W Division

    Letter addressed to members of the Ps/W Divison, C.O.G.A. and lecturers re visits to POW campsEnglish 

  20. SA copy newsletter to former comrades