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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  2. Annie Hoek-Wallach: Personal papers

    These papers document in part the life of a German Jewish immigrant who lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi era and whose mother and husband, a Dutch Jewish teacher, were deported to concentration camps where they perished.

  3. Jewish Chronicle library collection: Defence file

    The collection consists of materials from the Jewish Chronicle’s library that deal with the defence against antisemitism. These include reports on antisemitic groups, individuals and incidents, as well as on the bodies that fought against them. There are letters to the Jewish Chronicle on defence, both from anti-fascist groups reporting occurrences of antisemitism, and from representatives of the far-right denying charges of anti-Jewish prejudice or exhibiting their antisemitism through hate mail. The collection also contains transcripts of German media reports on various Nazi leaders....

  4. Reichsjugendführer: regulations re youth service of Jewish Mischlinge

    The document is evidence of the problem that the Nazis had with treating Germans of mixed Jewish parentage, in particular what to do with Mischlinge 1 Grades (with 2 Jewish grandparents) who had already been serving in the Jugenddienst. Whilst the latter group were now regarded as having an unacceptable level of Jewish blood, many had already served the Third Reich and many more were due to once they reached the right age. The solution was apparently to create an intermediate stage in which Mischlinge 1 Grades were to be put on permanent standby (Bereitstellung) but would never actually be ...

  7. Shatzky family papers

    The collection contains a report about the life of Israel Shatzky, a letter from an unidentified parent to a daughter called Mertche, and family photographs.

  9. Viktor Ullmann: Piano sonatas

    Sheet music for three of Ullmann's piano sonatas, two CDs of Maria Garzon playing Ullmann's piano music and documentary on Viktor Ulllmann and Maria Garzon's discovery and performance of his music.

  10. Marion Lesser collection

    This collection contains papers pertaining to the family of Marion Lesser nee Oschitzky and comprises correspondence from her parents and other papers

  13. Berlin cabaret songs

  17. Aryanisation of the Römischer Kaiser store, Erfurt: Documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Microfilmed collection of documents relating to the aryanisation of the 'Römischer Kaiser' store, Erfurt.In the correspondence between Gauwirtschaftsberater and Wirtschaftskammer Mitteldeutschland- Weimar, it is stated that economic viability rather than party policy should decide whether the 'Römischer Kaiser' store should be Aryanised.

  19. Copy papers concerning Karl Wittig

    This collection of copy papers documents the experiences of Karl Wittig in Germany during the Nazi era and in the immediate postwar years. The papers include sworn statements by various witnesses (including Pastor Martin Niemöller) who testify to his incarceration in various concentration camps.