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  1. Yom Hashoah: publicity material

    Yom Hashoah: publicity material 

  3. Irmgard Smurka: copy papers

    These copy personal papers of Irmgard Smurka (née Klinger) document the life of a German Jewish resident of Berlin who emigrated to Great Britain after the war. The papers include school certificates; birth, marriage and death certificates; job references, etc. Of particular interest is an affidavit of 1961 submitted by Irmgard Smurka in support of a claim for compensation, in which she details the victimisation she endured during the nazi era (-/14). In addition there are manuscript (-/17) and typescript (-/18) accounts of her experiences written in German for Yad Vashem. The above items p...

  4. Arnost Polak: family correspondence and papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises original postcards and letters from Gerta and Rudolf Pollak, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp in former Czechoslovakia and Siedliszcze, a forced labour camp in the Lublin area, Poland. Also included are some recent photographs of Terezin and memorial stones. The letters are particularly significant for historians of the period because they provide a detailed insight into ghetto life and shed light on the fate of one transport from Terezin to Lublin District in Poland. The f...

  5. Lisbeth Sokal: Personal papers

  6. Bertha and Karl Weiss papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Bertha and Karl Weiss, Jewish former residents of Berlin whose families originated in Poland. Also contained are papers relating to various restitution and pension claimsReaders need to reserve a reading room terminal to access some digital photographs

  7. Selma Mills collection

  8. Polish Jewry during the Nazi era: Extracted accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French Jew's experience of Auschwitz.Transcript of T-77 Roll 1443 Records of Headquarters, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, "Feindpropaganda in Generalgouvernment wertet den Katyn Fall zu angriffen auf die Methoden des KZ-Lagers Auschwitz aus," (20.4.1943)A Polish profe...

  9. Certificate of proof of racial origin

  10. Manfred Gans: Copy diary extract

    Manfred Gans: Copy diary extract in which the author describes meeting British, American and Russian troops, German soldiers, prisoners of war and refugees

  11. Max Hirsch collection

  12. August Tuchmann: translation of diary

    Translation of the diary of August Tuchmann detailing life for a Jewish family in 19th century GermanyEnglish 12 pagesThis translation of August Tuchmann's diary was produced by his grandson, the depositor, Fred Tuckman

  13. Hannelore Jacob collection

  14. List of Foreign Office officials of mixed Jewish descent

    List of officials in the higher grades of the German foreign office of mixed Jewish descent divided into permanent, temporary and retired officials3 pages. Author unknown 

  15. Ernst Fraenkel: Academic correspondence

    Letters to Ernst Fraenkel on his article “Der Beitrag der deutschen Juden auf wirtschaftlichem Gebiet", Franz Böhm and Walter Dirks (eds.), Judentum: Schicksal, Wesen und Gegenwart (Franz Steiner Verlag: Wiesbaden, 1965), pp. 552-600.

  16. Correspondence re the renewal of hunting licences

    This original correspondence deals with the application and rejection of hunting licences on the grounds that the applicants' wives are Mischlinge.

  17. Hanau and Wallach family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the Hanau family of Friedberg, Hesse and other related Jewish families including the Wallach family of Alsfeld, Hesse and the Rosenberg family of Kassel, Hesse.The material consists of family trees, memoirs, copy official documents and correspondence.

  18. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: Letter re Rassenschande

    This letter is addressed to C Aronsfeld of the Jewish Central Information Office. Letter from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society regarding the prosecution of Dr. Robert Nussbaum for Rassenschande, and his subsequent death in a concentration camp 

  19. Copy letter re Dachau - not dated

  20. Ludwig Goldschmidt: copy travel document