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  2. Miscellaneous documents re aliens in the British army

    This collection of papers documents the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish servicemen in the British Army during the Second World War.

  3. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...

  4. Wolfgang and Werner Loewy: Correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

  7. A.P. Peres: correspondence with Dr E. Benes and other papers

    These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years. The papers include correspondence between Alfred Pavel Peres and the president of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes.

  9. Alice Fink: Family papers

    These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

  10. Terezin: Note re materials and shortage of doctors

    Copy note from the health section of the Jewish Management Committee of Terezin re materials and shortage of doctors 

  11. Copy witness statements re Auschwitz war criminals

    Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who descr...

  14. Order re measures against Jews, Vienna

    Order from the Führer des SS Oberabschnittes österreich, Vienna, to all SS units referring to an order of Gauleiter Buerckel that all section leaders were to be responsible for preventing actions by the SS against Jews and that if measures have to be taken against Jews these would be carried out by the authorities and the Gestapo.It bears a stamp (in French) of the U.S. 3rd Army, which suggests it became a captured document probably during the occupation of Austria by the allies at the end of the war.

  15. Gross family documents

    This collection of family papers documents the experiences of an assimilated German Jewish family some of whom managed to escape to safety and others who perished in the Holocaust. It consists of original correspondence between members of the family and friends before, during and after the war. Also included are personal papers such as certificates and photographs.

  17. War Crimes Trials: various papers

    This collection consists of a papers relating to a number of separate war crimes trials deposited at different times from different sources.

  18. Copy letter from deportee to Terezin

  19. Julian Lehmann: various press cuttings and articles

    This collection comprises miscellaneous press cuttings from German language newspapers dating from c1916 to the 1930s which can roughly be classified into those dealing with the life and work of contemporary Jewish personalities such as Freud, Einstein and Stefan Zweig, on the one hand and articles of a general Jewish interest on the other. In addition there are a number of draft typescript articles and notes on a variety of subjects ranging from obituary notices to articles describing the experiences of German Jewish immigrants to Great Britain during the Nazi era. They are either clearly ...

  20. Pottlitzer family papers

    Papers of the Pottlitzer family including birth, marriage and death certificates; Deutsches Reich Kennkarte for Margot Strauss (1194/7); reference from a former employer, where Margot worked as an editor/ journalist, dated 10 March 1933 (1194/3); copy manuscript letter from Max Pottlitzer to the Polizeiamt, Schöneberg, Berlin, in which he registers the transfer of money and property to his mother, [as required by the recently enacted law relating to the registering of Jewish property], dated 22 September 1938 (1194/4).Mostly German