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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection

    This collection contains photocopies of Vera Coppard-Leibovic's (née Ilse Rosendorff) identity cards, a former Jewish Kindertransportee from Berlin whose parents decided to send her to England in 1939 to avoid her being exposed to Nazi persecution.Copy identity cards including a 'Judenkarte' (German ID card for Jews) and identity card for young people under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children admitted to travel to the UK.

  3. Vera Klara Cohn: papers concerning Kurt Singer

    This collection contains the papers of Vera Cohn, mainly concerning Dr Kurt Singer, conductor and musicologist, with whom she had a relationship before she emigrated to the UK in 1938.Personal papers including press cuttings relating to Singer, programme for a guest performance at the Berliner Ensemble accompanying the exhibition 'Geschlossene Vorstellung - Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933-1941' at the Academy of Art Berlin (1992) and a photograph of Kurt Singer. Also included are two publications by Kurt Singer 'J S Bach Kantatenwelt - A. Allgemeines and grundsätzliches - Einleitung' and 'J S ...

  8. Vicky Abrams: Personal papers and material re Neu Beginnen

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital content: 1031/1; 1031/2The papers in this collection document in part the experiences of Vicky Abrams (formerly Hedwig Abranowicz/ Hedwig Leibetseder), who was a member of the Leninist underground organisation of 1930s Berlin, Neu Beginnen. Also included are family papers and material about Neu Beginnen

  9. Victor Koch: Old master drawings collection

    The collection comprises a manuscript volume into which photographs have been affixed. In addition there are some enclosures consisting of items, which have become unattached from the volume. There is also some correspondence from art galleries re Koch's collection.

  10. Victor Zorza: Press cuttings and news copy

  11. Viktor Ullmann: Piano sonatas

    Sheet music for three of Ullmann's piano sonatas, two CDs of Maria Garzon playing Ullmann's piano music and documentary on Viktor Ulllmann and Maria Garzon's discovery and performance of his music.

  12. Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit: leaflets and posters

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This is a microfilm collection of anti-communist propaganda material directed against the former DDR.

  13. Von Friedhoefen Sterbender Oestlicher Gemeinden

    Von Friedhoefen Sterbender Oestlicher Gemeinden : article by Alfred Grotte

  14. W.P. Crozier Papers

    Accounts, both typescript and holograph, of interviews conducted by Crozier, with 62 statesmen and politicians, between 1931-1944. The interviews are concerned with European politics and the Nazi threat, the Jewish National Home and the Far East (India and China). There are 175 major interviews with 23 leading politicians, including Stanley Baldwin, Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, Arthur Henderson, Sir Samuel Hoare, Leslie Hore Belisha, Ivan Maisky, Herbert Morrison, Jan Masaryk, Sir John Simon, Sir Robert Vansittart. There are also 57...

  15. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Manchester Guardian This series comprises the confidential foreign affairs correspondence of W.P. Crozier. Many of the materials are bundles of correspondence and reports sent to Crozier by correspondents. Crozier collected these materials, adding his own notes and materials about the editorial and business affairs of the . Most of the materials are marked confidential or secret. Many have been translated from Hebrew and a small number are in French, German, and Hebrew. The correspondence is largely concerned with the Zionist movement, particularly in Palestine. There are significant materi...

  16. W.P. Jaspert: account of an anti-nazi family

    This collection originally constsisted just of the 2 page account of a anti-Nazi family, described below. Since then more material has been donated to the library: namely an autobiographical account by the depositor and an article on German, non-Jewish anti-Nazis by the depositor's son. These will be catalogued in the main library catalogue. There are also some anti- Nazi propaganda leaflets

  17. Waclaw Piotrowski Letter

    1 handwritten, original letter from Auschwitz (1942) to the sender's mother Maria in Poznan.

  19. Waffen SS: Papers re training leaders

    These documents relate to an initiative by the Waffen SS, in 1943, to target the brighter pupils amongst the middle and higher classes to train to become leaders in the organisation.

  20. Waging peace: Darfur children's drawings and other material

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to consult a digital copy of this material