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 1,861 to 1,880 of 1,934
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Wahle family papers

    The collection comprises a significant amount of incoming and copy outgoing correspondence between Karl and Hedwig and various friends, colleagues and relations. 

  2. Waldmann-Mandel collection

    The collection consists of the vital records and identity documents of Maurice Waldmann, Rita Waldmann-Mandel and Ludwig Mandel. It also contains letters to Ludwig Mandel, including one sent by his mother in Theresienstadt.

  3. Walldorf 16 Labour Camp, Frankfurt a. M.: List of Jewish prisoners

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archiveList of Jewish women prisoners at Walldorf/ Frankfurt, giving prisoner number, name, date of birth, profession, function in the camp 

  5. Walter and Helene Simon: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers and correspondence of members of the extended family of Alice Burgar née Rockwell: mainly correspondence between her mother and father and her paternal grandparents in Berlin, Walter and Helene Simon. Also contained are personal documents of Alice's paternal grandfather and his mother, Clara Simon. In addition there is a folder of correspondence and papers from Alice's uncle, Stefan Helmut Simon, dated immediate post war.

  6. Walter Manes: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers of Walter Manes documents his life from youth to the immediate post-war years. In addition to the documentation, an unpublished autobiographical account (1548/1) puts the papers in context.

  7. Walter Rauch: correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence relating to Walter Rauch who was interned as a Jewish refugee at Douglas, Isle of Man, and in Australia.Correspondence and papers including are his application for release from internment and pamphlet calling for boycott of Jewish shoe shops (1723/6).English German

  8. Walter Rauff: Personal papers and material documenting his war time activities

    The papers in this collection are part of the background material which was used by John Ware for his documentary ‘Colonel Rauff's Refuge', Granada, World in Action, 8.8.1983, 8.30 pm.

  9. Walter Rosenberger: Correspondence and papers

    This collection consists of correspondence re property holdings and taxation of a former German Jewish judge in the Berlin Civil Court

  10. Walter Seelig collection

    Walter Seelig collection: German student fraternity material

  11. War crimes trial papers: Euthanasia case

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm copy trial document shows the verdict, sentence and trial judgement in a 'Euthanasia Case' appeal against Dr Walter Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main 12.8.1947 Ss 92/47.

  12. War crimes trials: Document transcripts and other papers

    This collection consists of trial transcripts and copy documents relating to the trial proceedings at Nuremberg, which followed the trial of the major war criminals. The papers in this collection comprise copy trial transcripts, and reports and correspondence relating to some of the 'subsequent trials' mentioned above. It is worth noting that the trial transcripts are verbatim whereas those in the published version are often abridged or extracted.

  13. War Crimes Trials: various papers

    This collection consists of a papers relating to a number of separate war crimes trials deposited at different times from different sources.

  14. Warburg family tree and other papers

  18. Wegrzyn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.Wegrzyn family papers including are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emig...

  19. Wehrmacht: Copy instructions re management of troops

    Copy translation of ‘Special issue of notes for the officer corps' issued by the High Command of the Wehrmacht under the following headings ‘the morale of troops must be raised'; ‘false interpretation of the word surrender'; ‘it is urgently necessary to make clear to the troops the exact sense of this conception on the part of the general'; ‘when and why officers must save themselves'; ‘instructions for the handling of soldiers' GPS' 

  20. Weinmann-Fels collection

    Documents belonging to and about three members of the Weinmann-Fels family: Ulla Weinmann, her sister Ursel Fels and their mother Eva Weinmann. The series on Ulla Weinmann contains vital records and identity documents, information on her arrival in Britain (including a letter from Sir Josiah Wedgwood to Ursel promising to act as Ulla’s sponsor), letters she sent while at an ashram in India and photographs. The Ursel Fels series has documents and photographs on her study of art and design at the Reimann School in Berlin and her subsequent career as a window display designer in Germany and So...