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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR): G44 Hostages and Political Detainees (microfilm)

    Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR) collection, 1939-1952, comprises files, reports and correspondence on the following subject areas: general background on hostages and political detainees; hostages and political detainees in Germany; hostages and political detainess by country and nationality (except Germany); assistance to hostages and political detainees; repatriations of deported; case files (all nationalities); civil war in Greece.

  2. Siegfried Thalheimer: Personal papers

    The collection consists of Siegfried Thalheimer's published and unpublished writing, including memoirs and articles on German and Jewish politics and identity. There is also correspondence on the journals Thalheimer founded (Ordo and Westland) as well as with Sigmund Hirschfeld.

  3. Eugen Mittwoch collection

    This collection contains some personal papers relating to Eugen Mittwoch, a Jewish Professor who worked at the University of Berlin in the 1930s. He was dimissed in 1935 due to the introduction of new Nazi legislation aimed to eliminate Jews from public office.Personal papers of Eugen Mittwoch including a letter regarding his dismissal from his university post (1935), letter from the German Foreign Office allowing him to pass all road barriers as employee of the new government (1918), and certificate of honorary title 'Sanitätsrat' awarded to Dr Ludwig Lipmann. 

  4. Toch and Korn families: personal papers

    This collection consists of the papers of the Toch and Korn families, Jewish refugees from Vienna. Whilst the children Erika and Harry Toch emigrated to England and Palestine, respectively to flee Nazi persecution, their parents Wilhelm and Margarethe Toch were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp from where only their mother returned. Erika got married to Polish refugee, Salman Korn, in 1941 whose papers and correspondence are also included.Included are correspondence and papers from Theresienstadt, Deggendorf DP camp as well as Kitchener and Mooragh internment camps; school repor...

  5. Richard and Gisela Bernstein: personal papers

    This collection contains papers (photocopies) relating to the fate of the Jewish family of Richard and Gisela Bernstein and their children Heinz and Susanne. Whilst the children emigrated to England as Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi regime, their parents could not escape deportation to Auschwitz despite them moving to Oslo.Personal papers including birth and death certificates, correspondence from the parents in Prague and later Oslo to their children in England, Red Cross letters sent to the parents in Oslo, photographs and Susanne Medas' personal accounts concerning her family's life in...

  6. Moses Mendelssohn: edited correspondence with Friedrich Nicholai

    This collection consists of the typescript transcripts (and editorial notes) of a series of letters from Moses Mendelssohn, the famous German Jewish writer and philospher, and his friend, Friedrich Nicholai,philosopher of the enlightenment.

  7. Richterbriefe: Confidential circulars from the Reichsministerium der Justiz

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection contains a complete series of so-called Richterbriefe in their original form:No.1Volksschädlinge, insbesondere VerdunkelungsverbrecherSittlichkeitsverbrechen an Kindern und JugendlichenKafeeanmeldung durch JudenDevisenverbrechen der JudenkennzeichnungNo. 2Schutz der Frau im KriegeGemeinschaftliche RaubüberfälleEntziehung des SorgerechtsSorgerechtsregelung für ein Kind aus geschiedener Ehe, dessen Vater im Felde istNo. 3Ehrenschutz gefallener SoldatenBlutschande und No...

  8. Jacoby family: personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Jacobys, a Jewish family from Berlin. Only one of the children, Henny Prax, managed to emigrate to England via Czechoslovakia. Her brother and parents were unable to leave the country in time and were later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where they perished.Personal papers including correspondence with relatives and acquaintances abroad regarding affidavits and visas for the family's emigration; work references and CVs; Hans-Bernd's school reports; copies of medical certificates; Henny Prax's letters from family and friends; correspondenc...

  9. Heydecker: family papers

    This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of the Heydecker family, German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Great Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

  10. Fürth family papers

    This collection consists of correspondence, documents and personal papers of the Fürth family, a family with Jewish roots, which has it's origins in the town of Susice, near Pilsen in the Czech Republic. They founded a paper mill in 1869, which was later run by Emil Fürth, grandfather of Peter Fürth, the main character of this family history, who was himself the son of paper manufacturer, Eugen Fürth. With the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland, Emil and his wife Sophie, Eugen and Peter fled to France and their paper factories were confiscated along with property in the Czech Republi...

  11. Strauss family: personal papers and corresondence

    This collection consists of the papers of the Strauss family, German speaking Jews from Prague, most of whom managed to flee Nazi persecution.Personal papers including Julius Strauss' diary (incomplete) in which he describes the emigration of his children and his failed attempt to go to Paris in April 1939 to find accommodation for himself and Elsa; wartime correspondence between the parents, their children and friends; papers relating to Julius Strauss and Vilem Lesny's compensation claim; photographs; family trees; as well as papers relating to the estate of family friend, Otakar Bondy, w...

  12. Irene White: papers relating to Eli Alkana and the Holocaust in Luckenwalde

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists of material relating to Eli Elkana (Georg Michelsohn), a Jewish poet and dentist from Dessau (now Saxony Anhalt), who was persecuted by the Nazis as early as 1932/33 for his opposing ideas and writings. He, his wife and his daughter managed to emigrate whilst other family members perished in the Holocaust.Personal papers Including Eli Elkana's manuscripts of 'Die Ritter von der weichen Birne' (1952) (1761/2) and 'Die Militär-Parade' (written as part of a letter to his daughter) (1761/1) as ...

  13. Erica Prean: copy personal correspondence and family research

    This collection contains correspondence regarding the family history of Erica Prean. Research into the history of the family was carried out as part of a project at the Walburgisgymnasium in Menden to commemorate the lives of the Jewish citizens who were victims of the Shoah. Family papers Including is a photocopy of a family photograph.Also included are transcripts and translations into English of letters sent to Ilse Bernstein and her daughter Erica in England from Ilse's parents Carl and Emmy Bernstein and aunt Adda (1939-1940) English and German Also text of talk given at HMD 27.1.2018,...

  14. Stephanie Brady and Walter and Paula Bolton: personal papers

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Viennese Jewish refugees Walter and Paula Bolton, and Steffi Brady (née Kohn).Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  15. Kurt and Edith Brent: personal papers

    Documents including family correspondence describing the difficult living conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Second World War; Kurt Brent's papers collected in preparation for emigration such as school certificates, 'Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung', German passport and driving license, British army soldier's service and pay book, soldier's release book, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen membership card and his memoirs; as well as Edith Brent's emigration papers such as training certificates, testimonials and work references, marriage certificate and correspondence relation to war co...

  16. Frederick Ullstein: Personal papers

    This collection comprises papers from a number of separate deposits from members of Frederick Ullstein's family. It contains both personal and family papersarranged byindividual family members (1361/1-9) and material relating to the pre and post war Ullstein publishing business (1361/10-28). The latter contains correspondence regarding the take over of Ullstein by the Axel Springer Verlag (1361/17; 1361/22-23). In addition there is a quantity of material which Frederick Ullstein appears to have inherited from his former employer, Wolfgang Foges, managing director of Aldus Books (1361/29-50)...

  17. Wilfrid Israel: copy correspondence

    The material in this collection comprises copies of correspondence to and from Wilfrid Israel, the originals of which are held in archives in the UK, the USA and Israel. The letters were used by Naomi Shepherd in the research on her book Wilfrid Israel: German Jewry’s Secret Ambassador. There follows Naomi Shepherd’s introduction to the collection.Wilfrid Israel was a prolific letter writer and this collection indicates the breadth of his interests and activities including pacifism and internationalism during the first two decades of the 20th century; Zionism- in which he was a follower of ...

  18. Erich and Fanny Walter and Pilpel: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Erich and Fanny Walter (née Pilpel) and those of her father Emil Leon Pilpel and sister Charlotte Smith (née Pilpel).

  19. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  20. Kurt Weinberg: Family and business papers

    This collection comprises the papers of the Weinberg family, cigar manufacturers of Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia : business papers- including contracts, consigment notes, accounts, tax details, loan contracts, land register entries for the property of the Weinberg family; family papers including marriage agreements, wills, powers of attorney, correspondence