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  1. Lisbeth Sokal: Personal papers

  3. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  4. Pauline Howard: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers (photocopies) of Pauline Lilly Howard, a Jewish woman who emigrated to Shanghai with her first husband Herbert Markstein in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions in Germany. After the Second World War she moved to the United States with her second husband, William Howard.Personal papers including school reports; birth, marriage and divorce papers; extract of the Directory of Jewish Refugees; Shanghai Municipal Police census form; identity cards and foreigners' residency certificate; affidavit in lieu of a passport for her emigration to the U.S.; U....

  5. Clive Teddern: The Hyphen News and other papers

    The bulk of the collection is materials produced in Clive Teddern’s role as editor of The Hyphen News. Also included are his memoirs and papers of the Otto Hirsch Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation.

  6. Correspondence from Gurs concentration camp, France

    These two postcards offer a brief insight into conditions at Gurs internment camp experienced by Berta Kahnheimer, a German (?) Jewish inmate.

  7. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  12. Silver fish knife with fish design owned by the Orsten family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    A single knife from a silver, fish cutlery set, consisting of four forks and three knives, designed by Art Krupp Berndorf of Austria and owned by the Orsten family. The cutlery is part of a collection relating to the experiences of Elizabeth M. Ornstein (later Orsten) and her family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States.

  13. Anni and Walter Robinson: family photographs

    This collection consists of family photographs and postcards of Anni Robinsohn and her husband Walter Robinsohn, Jewish refugees from Hamburg who emigrated from Nazi Germany to London in the late 1930s.Personal papers including family photographs and postcards, also included are a small metal plaque of Dr Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and a piece of painted stained glass.

  14. Articles and U.S. military records relating to displaced persons in postwar Europe

    1. Albert Hutler collection

    Includes copies of military documents and other materials from various U.S. Army authorities (e.g., 7th U.S. Army, Headquarters USFET, SHAEF) in postwar Europe concerning the management, care, living conditions, and repatriation of displaced persons. Also included are two copies of the report written by Earl G. Harrison to President Truman in 1945 concerning conditions for displaced persons in Europe, together with a condensed version of the same report that appeared in the "National Jewish monthly," November 1945 issue.

  15. Albert Hutler letters relating to displaced persons in the American Zone of occupied Germany

    1. Albert Hutler collection

    Relates to U.S. Army's military government postwar management and care of displaced persons and their repatriation, particularly in the American Zone of occupied Germany.

  16. Judiska församlingen i Göteborg, E 12

    1. The Jewish Community of Gothenburg
    • Handlingar ang American Jewish Joint Distribution Committees flyktingverksamhet (1945-1957)

    E 12 contains records concerning the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s refugee activities between 1944 and 1957. Most of the records are accounts of the different activities the Swedish part of the committee undertook and estimations of how many prisoners were liberated from concentration camps and when. The series also includes much correspondence between the Swedish branch of the AJJDC and other parts of the committee. Many letters are addressed to Julius Hüttner, the chairman of the Refugee Committee [of the Jewish Community] in Gothenburg. Among these letters are a few conc...

  17. O.60 - Collection of Anti-Jewish Legislation - the World Jewish Congress

    O.60 - Collection of Anti-Jewish Legislation - the World Jewish Congress Included in the Record Group: A. Collection of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in various countries, organized in files according to the countries. Sometimes the law is quoted as it was published in the law books of that particular country, and sometimes there are surveys regarding the law or newspaper clippings with a description of the law. B. Correspondence between the World Jewish Congress (including with the United Nations) regarding anti-Jewish legislation such as laws regarding emigration, the status of refugees...

  18. Charles Martin Roman papers

    The Charles Martin Roman collection consists of photographs, documents, and identity paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Carl (Carlo) Roman, now Charles Roman. The photographs depict his pre-war life in Vienna, images of Carl and his mother with a group of Jews on an escape over the Alps to Italy from the Italian-occupied zone of France in September 1943, family photographs, and photographs of the OSE-run Font-Romeu camp and Montintin children's home. Includes Carl's identity paperwork, a falsified document stating that Marianne Roman authorized Carl to leave the OSE children'...

  19. Der Leidensweg von Zensl Mühsam

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication focuses on the hardships in the life of Zensl Mühsam. She was the wife of Erich Mühsam who had been murdered by the Nazis in 1934. Zensl first fled to Czechoslovakia and then to Russia, where she was arrested and sent to a camp in Siberia. Many of her letters to the author describing the abuse and torture of her husband and her desperation are reprinted. After her arrest she disappeared, and the author tried for many years to learn her fate. In 1949 he still searches for any sign of life of Zensl.