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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Selmar Biener: papers re restitution claim

    The material consists of original material and some copy documentation. It has been arranged in date order.

  3. Joshko's children

  4. Esther Simpson correspondence and papers

    The main collection (items 1-1437) comprises Esther Simpson's personal papers, certificates, photographs, press-cuttings, miscellaneous documents, and correspondence to and from Esther Simpson, as received from her. Another large collection (15 boxes) of similar material from among her possessions, received after her death, remains unsorted and unlisted. Small collections received subsequently from other sources have been numbered - 1438-82, 1483-1501, 1502-33 - and are itemized in the handlist. The items date between 1918 and 1997.

  5. Personal recollections of H.C. Plaut

    Bound photocopied typescript recollections 'Memories of a German Jew' (nd).

  6. Franz Muller papers.

    • University of Leeds Special Collections
    • Liddle Collection GE 20
    • English
    • 1821-1977
    • 2 boxes; manuscript, typescript, photographs, and printed material (mainly photocopy). Includes photographic slides, the nose cap of a German shell, a medal ribbon, a split bullet, and his birth certificate.

    French-German dictionary (1821); 51 photographs, mostly from Alsace, with negatives and photocopies (1917-1935, nd); Programme for Kaiser's birthday at Charleville (27 January 1918); 58 photographic slides (nd); Nose cap of German shell (nd); Photographic slide (nd); Medal ribbon (nd); Split bullet (nd); Photocopied Muller family tree (nd); Typescript recollections 'Dad' by his son, Dr H.G. Muller, with photocopied certificates and wedding photograph from 1926 (nd); Transcript of lecture 'Balloons at War' given by his son, Dr H.G. Muller, to the Yorkshire Militaria Club, accompanied by 52 i...

  7. Zangwill papers (Harry S. Ward Library)

    Correspondence of Israel Zangwill with his lecture agent, Gerald Christy, 1895-1906 Copies of Israel Zangwill's papers, 1886 onwards, including correspondence with Dr Moses Gaster, 1886-1914, and with his literary agent, 1893-1901; copies of personal papers relating to Zangwill's early life and his schooling; copies of birth, marriage and death certificates; obituaries of Louis Zangwill; photographs, portraits and caricatures; cuttings and articles relating to Israel Zangwill's novels and to plays and theatre productions; papers relating to exhibitions; articles relating to Zangwill; papers...

  8. Papers of V.D. Lipman

    General correspondence and papers, 1943-90 (12 files); two series of research materials, including papers relating to Jewish buildings and ritual baths, on Hebrew scholarship in the sixteenth century, and Jewish labour; papers relating to the New West End Synagogue, London, 1887-1979; ritual murder, and Jews in British urban society, 1880-1914 (23 files) Papers relating to his publications, 1981-9 (6 files) Papers relating to teaching and academic institutions, including papers for his course at University College, London, 1981-90 (9 files) Papers on the national heritage, architectural con...

  9. Papers of Diana Silberstein

    Official documents, with correspondence, c.1936-46.

  10. HAHN, Professor Dr Otto (1879-1968)

    Typescript text in German entitled 'Beziehungen zu Nichtariern' ('Relationships with non-Aryans'), dated Jul 1945, relating to the treatment of Hahn's Jewish friends and colleagues in Germany, 1933-1945.

  11. Selma Kahn Papers

    The collection consists mainly of unpublished manuscripts of autobiographical novels, short stories and poetry by Selma Kahn in various versions. Unfortunately, many of her manuscripts are undated, so that it is not always possible to clarify when a text was written. Her novels are largely autobiographical and focus on subjects including the First World War, the rise of national socialism in rural Germany, the Holocaust, refugee experience and the experience of return to Germany. The collection also contains a small number of documents and photos relating to Selma Kahn's personal and family...

  12. Raymond Berr Collection

    Papers relating to Miss Winnifred Child, governess, and the family of Raymond Berr, French-Jewish. In shared box. Photographs (N.d./1946); Handwritten letters addressed to Miss Child (N.d./1946); Official correspondence (1940).

  14. Annie Hoek-Wallach: Personal papers

    These papers document in part the life of a German Jewish immigrant who lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi era and whose mother and husband, a Dutch Jewish teacher, were deported to concentration camps where they perished.

  15. Jewish Chronicle library collection: Defence file

    The collection consists of materials from the Jewish Chronicle’s library that deal with the defence against antisemitism. These include reports on antisemitic groups, individuals and incidents, as well as on the bodies that fought against them. There are letters to the Jewish Chronicle on defence, both from anti-fascist groups reporting occurrences of antisemitism, and from representatives of the far-right denying charges of anti-Jewish prejudice or exhibiting their antisemitism through hate mail. The collection also contains transcripts of German media reports on various Nazi leaders....

  16. Reichsjugendführer: regulations re youth service of Jewish Mischlinge

    The document is evidence of the problem that the Nazis had with treating Germans of mixed Jewish parentage, in particular what to do with Mischlinge 1 Grades (with 2 Jewish grandparents) who had already been serving in the Jugenddienst. Whilst the latter group were now regarded as having an unacceptable level of Jewish blood, many had already served the Third Reich and many more were due to once they reached the right age. The solution was apparently to create an intermediate stage in which Mischlinge 1 Grades were to be put on permanent standby (Bereitstellung) but would never actually be ...

  19. Shatzky family papers

    The collection contains a report about the life of Israel Shatzky, a letter from an unidentified parent to a daughter called Mertche, and family photographs.