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  1. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: deportation order

    This order from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland to Frau D. S. Allfeld, partner in a mixed marriage, to go on a work detail out of the city (Frankfurt a. M.) is evidence of the continuation of this organisation's activities (albeit in changed and much reduced form).After June 1943, when most of Germany's Jews had been deported to concentration/ death camps. The following features are of particular interest. The date, 8 February 1945, seems very late and suggests that the Nazis must have been desperate to recruit workers at this time. The document appears to be a contemporary c...

  2. Laura Selo collection

    Laura Selo family correspondence and papers including letters from her mother Grete Gumpel to her father; also letters from the children to their father while he was interned; also documents and Red Cross letters of Else Philipps, Grete Gumpel's sister, who managed to get to Great Britain. Included is a negative of a letter by the Jewish Refugee Committee.

  3. Italian antisemitism during Mussolini's era: various papers

    Miscellaneous copy documents re antisemitism in Italy during Mussolini's era including book reviews, correspondence and a copy letter from Vittorio Cerruti, former Italian ambassador in Berlin, to URO Munich emphasising the differences between Mussolini and Hitler regarding racial ideology. 

  4. Academics persecuted by the Nazis: Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the fate of Jewish mathematicians and academics during the Nazi era.

  5. Joan Campion: correspondence re Gisi Fleischmann

    This collection of copy correspondence of Joan Campion relates to her portrayal of Gisi Fleischmann, who assisted with the rescue of Jews in nazi occupied Europe, and who features in Campion's book In the Lion's Mouth.

  6. Institute for historical review conference: transcript of talk by David Irving

    Copy typescript annotated transcription of a talk given by David Irving at a conference organised by the Institute for Historical review in Anaheim, California, September 3-5 1983.

  9. Luzer Izbicki collection

    Copy documents regarding emigration

  10. Copy reports and correspondence re Jews in Vienna

    Copy reports and correspondence re Jews in Vienna 

  11. Board of Deputies: Defence committee papers

    FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS ARCHIVE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FIELD AND PRINTOUT, FILL OUT AND SEND TO ADDRESS GIVEN.The Defence Archive contains reports from the Jewish community's observers who attended many local and national meetings held by these groups, assessments of the groups' aims and capabilities, correspondence with the police and government, as well as the minutes of the Board's committees. Part of the Defence Archive has remained closed but in 2011 it was decided to put it on long term loan with the Wiener Library so that researchers of the perio...

  12. Report re conditions in France under German occupation

    Report re conditions in France under German occupation including detail on the following subjects: smuggling people out of the country; good behaviour and manners of the invading force; the price of goods. The report has been annotated thus: ‘Reliable report; not for publication'English. 5 pages 

  13. Moses and Wolf Blau: short biographical statements

    It is not known in which context these two original signed statements by Moses Blau and his son Wolf, German Jewish refugees in Amsterdam were made. However the formal presentation and details contained therein suggest that the document was created as part of a process of registration possibly with the Dutch authorities or a Jewish relief organisation.

  15. Fritz Weisskopf collection

    Correspondence and photograph

  16. Typescript account of the persecution of a Jewish couple in Fürth

    A typescript account of the persecution of a Jewish couple in Fürth, who were forced to sell their property.German 1 pageThe names of the victims have been abbreviated.The document has been annotated with the reference PIIIe, which suggests that it might have been created as part of the Wiener Library Eyewitness Testimonies series.

  17. Ilse Sobel collection

  18. Reports and other papers pertaining to refugees in Shanghai

    This collection comprises reports about the fate of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War Two; eyewitness statements of individual Jewish refugees; personal papers of Ernst Platz, former Jewish refugee in Shanghai; correspondence regarding documents relating to the Shanghai Jewish refugee experience

  19. Kulturbund deutscher Juden: Papers regarding accounts

    Kulturbund deutscher Juden: Papers re accounts including payment bills, corrspondence and memoranda documenting the activities of the organisation.

  20. Mauthausen Death Books