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  1. Raphael Lemkin papers

    This collection of Raphael Lemkin's papers documents his intense interest in the subject of genocide. The originals are held at the New York Public Library, from which the text of the following catalogue was obtained. The papers largely document Lemkin's intense interest in the subject of genocide. With the exception of a draft of his autobiography, Unofficial Man, the collection contains very little personal material. The correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, with public officials, newspapers, academics, and religious groups. It relates to Lemkin's struggle for support for the rati...

  2. Joe Quittner personal papers

    This collection comprises certificates; personal correspondence; material re education/ training; material pertaining to Joe Quittner's refugee experience; miscellaneous papers including detailed inventory of the collection

  3. 'Housed Memory': publicity material

    The publicity material in this collection relates to the work of Uriel Orlow, one time artist-in-residence at the Wiener Library. The final version of his work, 'Housed Memory'can be seen at WL Video 1355/1-6.

  4. Grete Sacki (Mayer): Personal papers

  5. Abram Wolraich collection

    The collection consists of 5 pdfs containing 251 pages of documents and correspondence with and on Abram Wolraich regarding his care after arriving in Britain, as well as a presentation for schools on Abram’s life.

  6. Ernst Fraenkel: De-nazification notice

    De-nazification notice in the form of a postcard from the “Hessisches Staatministerium. Minister für politische Befreiung … Frankfurt-Main” addressed to Mr. Fraenkel (born 5.4.1891) in Frankfurt. 

  7. Antisemitism in Spain: reports and correspondence

    A miscellaneous collection of reports and correspondence documenting antisemitism and the situation of Jewish refugees in Spain and Spanish Morocco in the 1930s. A number of organisations are represented.

  8. Office of US Chief of Counsel: interrogation summary

    This interrogation summary deals with medical treatment/ abuse at Dachau concentration camp.

  9. Copy letter from foreign minister von Neurath to Hitler

    Copy letter from von Neurath, foreign minister, to Hitler stating that Mussolini has declared himself prepared to deny reports about the persecution of Jews in Germany 

  10. Marion Sipser: family papers

  11. Hans Schäffer: catalogue to diaries and other papers - no date

    This collection consists of the copy archival catalogue to the diaries and other papers of Hans Schäffer, formerly ministerial official and finance expert during the Weimar era. The original diaries are owned by the Wiener Library and are on permanent loan at the archive of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München which produced the catalogue. In addition to the catalogue and related papers there are two additional items, the provenance of which is not known. These are a partial copy of an analysis of the economic crisis of the early 1930s (951/3) and unidentified material relating to Germa...

  12. Prof. Ernst Fraenkel: correspondence and personal papers

    This collection consists of some personal papers of professor Ernst Fraenkel and correspondence between him and Kapitän Leutnant Kraus of the German Defence Ministry press office regarding Jews who fought for Germany in the two World Wars.

  13. American Friends Service Committee: Refugee hostel papers

    This collection comprises copy material relating to refugee hostels founded by the American Friends Service Committee.

  14. Interviews with German generals - not dated

    This undated copy typescript account was apparently written by a German female stenographer working in Paris for the US Historical section. Her narrative describes visits to 'Le Petit Chesnay' and later Hennemont Castle where German generals (eg von Lüttwitz, Schramm, Bayerlein) were held captive. She describes the atmosphere and gives an account of Schramm's report.

  15. Various eyewitness statements

    A collection of eyewitness statements pertaining variously to war crimes in and experiences of Auschwitz; experiences  and condititons in Terezin; experience of a Christian anti-Nazi school teacher during the Third Reich

  16. Jews in Brazil: various papers

    Letters and reports which document the situation of Jews in Brazil in the 1930s.

  17. Ernst Kramer personal papers

    Personal papers and correspondence of Arnost and Eva Kramer

  18. Book of Mourning dedicated to Benny Michaelson

    Book of Mourning dedicated to Benny Michaelson who died 29 May 1919 

  19. Kurt Sabatsky: reports on leading Nazis and incidents of Jewish persecution

    This collection consists of typescript reports about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution. Many of the reports are written in the first person. In the last report (-/23), an account of the author's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen, the author reveals his identity - Kurt Sabatsky, formerly District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library. At -/13 is a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representative...

  20. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: Correspondence and papers

    Post-World War II papers and correspondence from Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, one of the last survivors of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz concentration camp.Includes correspondence and press cuttings relating to the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in 2000 (1661/1) as well as correspondence with Gisela Langensee regarding her biographical account entitled 'Teschuwa' (1661/2) and Lasker-Wallfisch's publication 'Ihr sollt die Wahrheit erben' (1661/3). Also includes a copy of a speech held before a concert at Wigmore Hall, London on 8 November [?] (1661/4). English German