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  1. Kurt and Edith Brent: personal papers

    Documents including family correspondence describing the difficult living conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Second World War; Kurt Brent's papers collected in preparation for emigration such as school certificates, 'Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung', German passport and driving license, British army soldier's service and pay book, soldier's release book, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen membership card and his memoirs; as well as Edith Brent's emigration papers such as training certificates, testimonials and work references, marriage certificate and correspondence relation to war co...

  2. Bernhard Lösener: statement under oath

    This typescript, annotated, statement by Bernhard Lösener, the former so-called 'racial expert' of the Third Reich, bears the original signature of Bernhard Lösener and is authenticated by the original signature of Walter Speyer, Allied Civilian AGO 20194.

  3. Copy documents re 1936 Olympics

    Copy documents concerning preparations for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

  4. Zappert family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment under the Nazi regime in 1938. His son Karl and his family also escaped further persecution by going to England via Denmark and Brazil. Wolf Zappert's papers include title deeds and ot...

  6. Hannah Kuhn: family papers

    This collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and an step-grandmother (Meta) in Treibnitz, who was last heard of towards the end o...

  8. Kuttner, Godlewsky, Speyer and Marx family histories

    This collection consists of the biographical accounts of three German Jewish families, compiled by Richard Lesser as part of a German initiative to record the fate of Jewish families who perished during the Holocaust.The papers concern the Kuttner family, Siegfried and Fanny Speyer, and Arthur and Elsa Godlewsky.Also contains the personal papers of Dr Ludwig Marx (the donor's father) including his passport (1704/3), a postcard from Dachau concentration camp sent to his wife Regina Marx ((1704/1) and his admission pass to Dachau (1704/2).

  10. Dresner family collection

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  11. Felix Langer: diaries

    The diaries contain mostly sparse notes often barely legible. A large part of the content relates to books.

  13. Papers of Heinz Werner Löwenstein

    The collection comprises two separate deposits from the family Löwenstein in 1988. The first (643/1/1) consists of correspondence between Heinz Werner Löwenstein and his parents, 1935-1940. The letters provide an interesting account of the difficulties encountered by a young immigrant trying to make his way in South Africa as well as of the life led by Jewish people in pre-war Berlin. For obvious reasons the letters make hardly any reference to the political situation and the real hardships and dangers of the parents' lives are hidden. The second deposit consists of correspondence from Hein...

  14. The Polish press in Post war Germany

    The Polish press in Post war Germany: a list of titles with place of publication arranged by zone of occupation 

  15. Marx family documents

    This collection of papers consists of the immigration documentation of a German Jewish family who emigrated to Great Britain in the 1930s. The collection consists of paperwork generated by the British and American immigration authorities and documentation brought from Germany by the Marx family members.

  17. Copy report of transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk

    This is an apparently authentic certified copy of a report about a transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk, which commenced on 10 November 1941. The author was Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, Meurin. The document is countersigned by Oberwachtmeister der Sch[utzpolizei?] [illegible]. Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city's Jews. The description of the embarkatio...

  18. Toch and Korn families: personal papers

    This collection consists of the papers of the Toch and Korn families, Jewish refugees from Vienna. Whilst the children Erika and Harry Toch emigrated to England and Palestine, respectively to flee Nazi persecution, their parents Wilhelm and Margarethe Toch were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp from where only their mother returned. Erika got married to Polish refugee, Salman Korn, in 1941 whose papers and correspondence are also included.Included are correspondence and papers from Theresienstadt, Deggendorf DP camp as well as Kitchener and Mooragh internment camps; school repor...

  19. Copy report of the Auswärtiges Amt

    Copy report of the Auswärtiges Amt regarding a confidential letter from Rabbi Wise to leading American Jews, which proved that the leaders of International Jewry realise that the fight against Jews in Germany is spreading to other countries where Jews played a leading role and he suggests that money must be raised to get 100,000 to 150,000 Jews out of Germany so that the antisemitic propaganda should come to an end 

  20. Dresner family: copy papers

    This collection contains photographs and copies of papers related to the Dresner family. The documents include official documentation on the Nazi persecution of a Jewish family from Leipzig and on a Theresienstadt survivor, a personal narrative of a Holocaust survivor, and an explanatory list of Dresner family members. The photographs show members of the Dresner Family.