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  1. Jews in Berlin at the beginning of 1942: a report

    This typescript report on conditions in Berlin is the product of a conversation with a Jewish woman who left Berlin in the beginning of 1942 and arrived in London in October of that year.

  2. Rechtsverwaltung to Obersten Reichsbehörden: Letter re behaviour of servicemen

    Copy letter signed by Puttkammer from the Reichsverwaltung to the Obersten Reichsbehörden re the behaviour of servicemen 

  3. Bertha Pappenheim: Copy letter

    Copy letter of Bertha Pappenheim, dated FrankfurtBarely legible 

  4. Adolf Peritz: letter

  5. E. Philipps Oppenheim: Correspondence

    Correspondence between various Nazi authorities regarding the banning of the publication of E. Philipps Oppenheim's works; also draft article regarding Jewish musicians- author unknown

  6. Rudolf Brandt: copy diary and transcript

    This collection comprises a photocopy and transcript of the diary for the year 1942 of SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Dr Rudolf Brandt, Himmler's former personal Referent. The entries record the details hour by hour of telephone conversations and consultations between Brandt, Himmler and outsiders. In a covering note, as if to make a point,the depositor highlights the infrequency of references to the Final Solution.

  8. Copy Oskar Schindler's list

    This is a photocopy of Oskar Schindler's list of Jewish workers who were employed by him at the concentration camp Gross Rosen and the work camp Brünnlitz. Inclusion on the list was a guarantee of safety. The list includes the names of 297 women and 800 men, the women's names being listed alphabetically. The list is thought to be a jumble of inaccuracies, false birth dates, and altered identities. Some of the mistakes are intentional; others apparently resulting from confusion or disinformation, or simply typos. There are German spellings, Polish spellings and Hebrew transliterations into b...

  9. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda: correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of correspondence and papers of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda contains mostly Anti-semitic material.

  10. Lussja Gruschlavskaja: DP Camp letter

    Lussja Gruschlavskaja: Copy translation of DP Camp letter, in which she describes being sent to a ghetto whilst living in Latvia then jumps to her experiences of a Displaced Persons Camp 

  11. Emil Fuchs collection

    Emil Fuchs: Correspondence and papers comprising letters mostly written by Emil and Paula Fuchs in Vienna to their children  in Great Britain; also some copy documentation

  12. Rozalia Nowak-Becke: copy personal papers

    This collection of copy personal papers of Rozalia Nowak-Becke, holocaust survivor, consists of her Polish passport, references, letters and newspaper cuttings.

  13. Frieda Morris: Copy family papers

    Copy family correspondence with translationsYiddish and EnglishThe correspondence consists of letters between Frieda Morris' grandmother and father in Poland and her brother and uncle in London.

  14. B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck (London) Lodges: archives

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentComprising documents, including bound reports, volumes, and index cards as well as some photographs and single objects, the collection includes the organisational papers of the Leo Baeck (London) Lodges and their affiliated bodies. Spanning more than seven decades, the material covers the complete period of the Lodges’ existence. The preserved papers appear, however, to be incomplete and only part of an originally larger bulk of material.The documents provide an overview of the organisational structures of the Leo Ba...

  15. The Dunera Affair: miscellaneous documents

    This collection of mostly secondary source material provides some insight into the situation of the German and Austrian immigrants to Australia who had been passengers on the Dunera, military transport ship which transported over 2000 internees from the U.K. to Australia in 1940.

  16. Cohn/ Baer family papers

    The material consists mostly of birth and death certificates, permits and travel documents. Included are papers which document the increasingly oppressive measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews. At 628/9 is Martha Cohn's identity card with the conspicuous “J” on the cover denoting Jew and which bears the additional information that she was ‘evacuated' from Berlin on 16 December 1942. At 628/10 is the order from the Amtsgericht, Berlin, that she must adopt the forename ‘Sara' to identify her as a Jew, dated 11 Jan 1939. At 628/11 is an order stamped by the Gestapo that she must leave G...

  17. Leo Baeck: Letter to Mrs Ehrenberg

    Original letter from Leo Baeck to Frau Ehrenberg

  18. Bettina Meisel: certificate of doctorate

  19. "Typescript article: :Hitler's Broken promises"

    This article is an analysis of Hitler's foreign policy strategy of forming and breaking alliances. It is annotated 'Press and Information Department, Board of Deputies'.

  20. Kriminalpolizei, Berlin: Copy extract evidence re case of arson

    Copy of evidence taken by the Kriminalpolizei, Berlin, re Frau Hedwig Schehl, née Rosenstock, who was accused by the other tenants in the house where she lived with her non-Jewish husband of making remarks that the English had never lost a war and indicating that she might have caused the fire which ruined the roof of the house.German