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  2. Hinda Elsztajn: report re Nazi persecution

    Interview transcript of Hinda Elsztajn, former inmate at Auschwitz and victim of Dr. ClaubergFrench Brussels 9 pages 

  3. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  5. Hepner and Cahn: family papers

    This collection of papers consists primarily of original (and some copy) correspondence between friends and relatives of the Cahn Hepner family. Käthe Ruth Cahn-Hepner (1924-2019) and Mrs Jacobs-Hepner, the depositors of this collection, are the daughters of Fritz and Leonie Cahn, German Jews who spent the war years in Switzerland. The depositors provided brief notes about most of the correspondents, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. This information has been incorporated into the descriptions below, along with information from additional sources, which sheds further light on their fa...

  6. Warburg family tree and other papers

  7. War crimes trials: Document transcripts and other papers

    This collection consists of trial transcripts and copy documents relating to the trial proceedings at Nuremberg, which followed the trial of the major war criminals. The papers in this collection comprise copy trial transcripts, and reports and correspondence relating to some of the 'subsequent trials' mentioned above. It is worth noting that the trial transcripts are verbatim whereas those in the published version are often abridged or extracted.

  8. Herta Ningo: family papers

  9. Joachim Prinz: Miscellaneous papers

  10. Mayor of Nuremberg: notice to Council officers

    Typescript notice from the mayor of Nuremberg instructing council officials to ensure that they always use correct German, ie free from foreign influenceThese instructions issued by the mayor of Nuremberg to the city's council officials reflect the Nazi preoccupation with maintaining the supposed purity of the German language. The last paragraph strongly urges individuals, professions, businesses etc to be described in terms of their ethnicity; they are either German or Jewish. They can not therefore be described as being Christian since the latter does not define ethnicity.

  11. Neues Leben: Miscellaneous papers

    Papers of the organization Neues Leben including a membership list, 1934; article on its foundation; and miscellaneous papers

  12. Report re Westerbork concentration camp, Holland

    This collection consists of a typescript, annotated (possibly) original report into conditions at Westerbork Concentration camp, entitled Kollektive Arbeit einer Widerstandsgruppe, apparently produced by member(s) of the 'Widerstandsgruppe' a typescript copy of the same; and correspondence between the Alfred Wiener and Professor David Cohen, Amsterdam relating to the above. The associated correspondence questions the reliability of the report. The report is critical, amongst others, of Professor Cohen, who had something to with the camp, and who subsequently wrote a book about the camp.

  13. Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife

    Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife during the Nazi era including an account of their experiences in their home town of Dürkheim, Württemberg, in 1933, when the Nazis came to power; 1934 at the time of the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Kristallnacht; conditions in Gurs Concentration Camp, Pyrenees, France; conditions in Camp du Recebedon, near Toulouse and a slave labour camp in Villemur, FranceGerman 15 pages 

  14. Israel - home of hope

  15. Josef Weisz: copy papers

    They consist of statements and correspondence of Josef Weisz relating to the time he spent as an inmate in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen concentration camps.

  16. Copy correspondence re post war Jewish Relief

    Copy correspondence between the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad re the provision of relief parcels for non-Jewish Hamburg residentsEnglish 2 items 

  18. August Grüber: report re Dachau

    Report of conditions in Dachau concentration camp, giving a classification of prisoners in the camp also including mention of cabaret evenings replete with reference to jokes about conditions.German 1 page 

  20. Personal papers of Helga Lewin (née Krebs) relating to her compensation claims

    The papers in this collection document the attempts made by Helga Lewin to gain compensation for suffering caused by the Nazi regime. They include settlements and decisions made by the Entschädigungsamt, Berlin and the Berlin district court along with affidavits and numerous expert witness statements.