Archival Descriptions

Advanced query tips

There are several ways to be more specific in your search query:

"Phrase"
Search an exact match of your query, e.g. "Member lists"
+Phrase
Given word has to be in the result, e.g. +Gestapo
-Phrase
Exclude given word from search, e.g. -Gestapo

Use the following syntax to restrict the search to specific fields:

field:"phrase"
For instance, you can find all descriptions that have the phrase "Auschwitz Birkenau" in their titles by searching for title:"Auschwitz Birkenau".

The following fields are currently available:

  • identifier
  • title
  • creator
  • person
  • place
  • subject
  • address
Displaying items 25,841 to 25,860 of 33,375
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English

  2. Report re situation of Jews in Germany

    Report of the situation of Jews in Germany and a prognosis of their fate, predicting that worse is to come, and that there will be no warEnglish Annotated on the front ‘Private and Confidential and on the back ‘Laski' 

  3. Fernbach family documents

    A short play written to celebrate the marriage of Eugen and Ida Fernbach forms the beginning of this history of the family which Eugen Fernbach continued to write until shortly before his death in 1936. A few additional entries by Hans Rainer Fernbach, his grandson, cover some events in later years. At the end of the chronicle there is the life story of his son, Wolfgang, a few newspaper cuttings and an itinerary of all voyages undertaken by Eugen and Ida Fernbach. A few family documents complete the collection. The chronicle is a quite detailed description of a well-to-do, though not rel...

  5. Harry Ralton collection

    The archive contains the personal and business papers of Harry Ralton. The latter concern Harry’s firm the Arcadia Music Publishing Co. There is also an extensive collection of his sheet music published in interwar Germany and in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition there are two folders of letters addressing Harry’s attempts to help his mother escape Germany, Harry's life and career in the UK, post-war conditions and the fates of friends under the Nazis. Prominent correspondents include Herbert Sandberg, Harry’s cousin and conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera, and the journalist and...

  6. Reichskommisar fuer die Besetzten Niederlaendischen Gebiete: Letter re paintings

    Copy letter from the Reichskommissar für die besetzten Niederländischen Gebiete to Dr Lammers concerning acquisition of paintings at a low price in HollandGerman 

  8. Bernhard Baer: A biographical account

    Biographical notes on Bernhard Baer. The notes provide details of his life, born into a German Jewish family in Berlin in 1905, and trace his experiences through the First World War and its aftermath, his escape from Nazi persecution to England in 1938 and his subsequent career as an expert in colour printing and a publisher of artists' graphic work.English Typescript 24 pagesThe account was written in note form shortly after the subject's death in 1983. It is divided into two parts: the first covering the years 1905-1948; and the second 1949-1983.

  9. Dr Walter Manfred Bergmann: Family papers

    This collection of papers consists of correspondence from the Reichsärztekammer and government regulations relating to the aryanisation of the medical profession in Nazi Germany. In addition the collection contains identity cards for Walter Bergmann, his wife and two young children which carry the distinctive 'J' designating their Jewish ethnicity.

  10. Reichsminister Lammers: Letter re the events of 20 July 1944

    Confidential circular letter to the leading government officials from Dr Lammers, Reichsminister and Chef der Reichskanzlei, regarding the Nazi government’s public treatment of the bomb plot of 20 July 1944  

  12. George Donath collection

  13. Paper re Jews in Czechoslovakia

    This short article on the history of Jews in Czechoslovakia and latter day antisemitism was addressed to Peter Bird Martin at the Institute of Current World Affairs, USA with the note 'Not to be published without writer's consent'.

  14. Copy report of the Auswärtiges Amt

    Copy report of the Auswärtiges Amt regarding a confidential letter from Rabbi Wise to leading American Jews, which proved that the leaders of International Jewry realise that the fight against Jews in Germany is spreading to other countries where Jews played a leading role and he suggests that money must be raised to get 100,000 to 150,000 Jews out of Germany so that the antisemitic propaganda should come to an end 

  15. Rudolf Hess: letter re education matters

    Nothing is known about the provenance of this material.

  16. Letter from Justin Moser former employer of Wilhelm Oswald, to Wilhelm Oswald

    Letter from Justin Moser former employer of Wilhelm Oswald, to Wilhelm Oswald in prison on a charge of fraud, detailing the amounts which the latter was charged with defrauding his former employer 

  19. Stephen de Bastion: copy family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the family of Hungarian born Stephen de Bastion, pianist and composer, formerly known as Istvan Bastyai.Copy family papers including a transcript of an interview with Stephen de Bastion describing his life; a history of the Bastyai-Holtzer family with family tree; a history of the town of Szeged, Hungary where the family lived; and an account by Edith de Bastion of her family's experiences under the Nazis and press cuttings, and photographs.