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  1. Copy correspondence from girl re life in Vienna

    They are mirror image typescript mimeographed transcriptions, the majority of which are copy letters from Leni, the 12 year old girl. In addition to the above there is an (apparently unrelated) unidentified mirror image mimeographed manuscript memo re tax allowances.

  2. Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit: Organisational papers

    This collection of papers documenting the activities of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit, the former's operational arm, consists of numerous separate deposits, the details of which were never recorded. Of particular interest are the following: a volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries; and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration camp inmates.The original order in which the collections were listed has been retained.

  6. Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: Archives

    This collection is held at the Wiener Library on microfilm.

  8. NSDAP Main Archive

    The Hauptarchiv was set up primarily as a depository for source material on which historians of the future would draw to write the history of the party. Its emphasis, therefore, lay on the years between 1919 and 1933. Material going back as far as 1890 was collected, however, to encompass the political and ideological forerunners of National Socialism, and although the spotlight was on the party itself, considerable importance was attached to parallel nationalist “voelkisch” movements and political opponents – for example, the entire files of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei were taken ove...

  9. World Jewish Congress: Central files

    Central Files consists of 103 boxes (41.2 linear feet) containing history of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), especially prior to 1940. The series includes correspondence and miscellaneous other materials of WJC leaders, together with minutes and records of conferences and committee meetings. The series name, “Central Files”, was adopted from an existing WJC series consisting of executive files and records from conferences and committees. Central Files includes material unrelated to any one specific department. For more material on specific departments see Series B through G.Spanning the ye...

  10. Last train to tomorrow

  11. International Committee of the Red Cross: G59 Israelites

    This collection is a microfilm copy of material owned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (G59). The creator was the Commission des Prisoniers, Internés et Civils (Commission PIC) The records pertain to the fate of European Jewry predominantly during the Nazi era. There follows an overview of the 13 sub-series with the original reference number, title and current microfilm reel number.\ G59/0: Dossiers Bachmann, Livre blanc, Exo (Extrème-Orient) 1942-1946, 4 bundles Reel 2This sub-series was created outside the original framework and retrospectively attributed to G59. Most of t...

  13. Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR): G44 Hostages and Political Detainees (microfilm)

    Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR) collection, 1939-1952, comprises files, reports and correspondence on the following subject areas: general background on hostages and political detainees; hostages and political detainees in Germany; hostages and political detainess by country and nationality (except Germany); assistance to hostages and political detainees; repatriations of deported; case files (all nationalities); civil war in Greece.

  14. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    This finding aid is the result of a stage-by-stage series of arranging and indexing processes which could only be completed as recently as 1989.The collection “Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland” is a fragmentary sub-collection (18 shelf meters) covering the years 1939 - 1945. Some of the files date back to the early thirties: the so-called “Vorakten” (background files) by attorneys and by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung wirtschaftlicher Interessen von in Deutschland wohnhaften oder wohnhaft gewesenen Juden GmbH“/FWI (Association for assistance in financial matters of Jews residing i...

  15. Reichskulturkammer Generalkartei (Reich Chamber of Culture: General Index)

    A1-A123: A microfilm copy of the central registry of membership of the Reichskulturkammer (RKK), 1930s-1940s, arranged alphabetically by individual surname. Originally maintained by the personnel section of the RKK, index cards have been supplemented by entries made by Allied occupation authorities. For each individual, one or more cards provide: name and address, birthdate and place, profession, RKK membership data and notations regarding political reliability and racial background. Also included in some instances are annotations from the Allied occupation authorities on denazifi...

  17. Lady Rose Henriques Archive

    The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

  18. Mosley's answers

  20. Log book of the Rover Scout Crew at Hay Internment Camp, NSW, Australia

    This log book documents the activities of a group of Austrian and German Jewish refugees whilst internees at Hay Internment Camp NSW, Australia. They formed themselves into a group called the Rover Scout Crew whilst on passage to Australia on the infamous 'Dunera Voyage' in July/ August 1940.