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  1. Inge-Lore Sommerfeld: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers and photographs of Inge-Lore Sommerfeld, a former Kindertransportee who was sent to England aged 12.Personal papers Including correspondence, passports, school reports and qualifications, certificate of confirmation, correspondence and papers regarding employment with the BBC and Marks & Spencer, and a family tree.

  2. Goldstaub family papers

    Personal papers of the Goldstaub family

  3. Kobylinski family: correspondence during internment

    This collection consists of correspondence between Else and Sigismund Kobylinski, German Jewish refugees, during their internment on the Isle of Man in Summer and Autumn 1940. The correspondents came to Great Britain in 1939, their children having emigrated some years earlier.

  5. Peter Hulsen collection

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to listen to the audio interview with the donorRecipe book and other papers including audio interview of Peter Hulsen who describes being born in Breslau, into a wealthy, secular Jewish household; coming to Great Britain on the last Kindertransport; staying in an orphanage in Brighton for 5 years; an interview with Anna Essinger and subsequent stay of 9 months at Bunce Court School; a career in retail including 30 years at Marks and Spencer; survival of his father who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials and also at Bletchl...

  6. Joe Quittner personal papers

    This collection comprises certificates; personal correspondence; material re education/ training; material pertaining to Joe Quittner's refugee experience; miscellaneous papers including detailed inventory of the collection

  7. Grete Sacki (Mayer): Personal papers

  8. Gossels family: Copy correspondence

    Collection of correspondence between members of the Gossels family who emigrated to Holland during the Second World War and certificates of incarceration at Auschwitz concentration camp for the parents Sally and Malchen Gossels (1662/1).

  9. Prayer book

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Prayer book owned by Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled Poland in 1968 because of persecution. After Germany invaded Russian occupied Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan, a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok was relocated into a Jewish ghetto. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944, the Soviet Army liberated the area. Kalman was forced into army service until the end of the war in May 1945. He repatriated to Łódź, Poland, and married Pauline Pajes in 1949. Pauline su...

  10. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz papers

    1. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The Ruth Salzberg Horwitz papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Salzberg family of Hamburg, Germany, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and the family members who remained in Europe and were killed in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include identification papers, student records, immigration records, and personal narratives. Photographs depict Ruth and her family and their home in Hamburg. Printed materials primarily document the Salzberg family’s life in the United States.

  15. Peter Briess collection

  16. Abraham family: Copy correspondence

    The copy correspondence in this collection documents the experiences of a German Jewish family in Berlin and England.

  18. Documentação sobre o Alto Comissariado para os refugiados e o acolhimento de refugiados judeus em Portugal

    Documentação referente ao Alto Comissariado para os Refugiados e assuntos relativos à permanência de refugiados em Portugal. Inclui: aide-memoire da Legação dos Estados Unidos da América em Portugal referente ao convite ao Governo Português para participar no Comité Internacional de Refugiados Políticos; telegramas da Embaixada de Portugal em Londres ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (MNE) relativo a pedido de prorrogação da extensão do prazo de expulsão de 65 refugiados judeus austríacos de Portugal; telegrama do MNE à Embaixada de Portugal em Londres comunicando a prorrogação do pra...

  19. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85

    1. Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv
    • Stockholms Stadsarkiv
    • Generalkonsul Olof Herman Lamms arkiv, B 85
    • English
    • 1938-1948
    • 0,15 linear meters (one box) of textual material.

    File B 85 contains information on Lamm’s and the Swedish Jewish organizations’ endeavors to create post-war relief and rehabilitation. There are also documents relating to efforts to facilitate family reunification for Jewish refugees. Lamm tried to mobilize such initiatives domestically and internationally, proposing various relief measures in 1943 to American Governor Herbert H Lehman, who served as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The volume contains Lamm’s correspondence regarding the 1943 Jewish relief memorandum with various prominent pe...

  20. Justitiedepartementet

    • Ministry of Justice
    • Riksarkivet
    • Justitiedepartementet
    • English
    • 1840-1996
    • Textual records.

    Series E1 A and E1 B contain consular files containing the so-called citizenship acts, i.e., applications for Swedish citizenship with accompanying documents. All refugees from Nazi persecution, and Holocaust survivors, who later became Swedish citizens have a citizenship file in the Ministry of Justice's archives. In addition to applications and notifications of citizenship, the files contain all other documentation that the Ministry considered relevant to the decision. In the files are short accounts of personal experiences reproduced in police interrogation reports, biographies, certific...