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  1. Manfred Gans: Copy diary extract

    Manfred Gans: Copy diary extract in which the author describes meeting British, American and Russian troops, German soldiers, prisoners of war and refugees

  2. The Tythrop Institute: copy papers re appeal for funds

    This collection of copy papers deals with the project of a group called the Langham Committee, whose object was to put to work several hundred German, Austrian and Czech Jewish refugees on the renovation of a delapidated manor House and grounds, Tythrop House. For a system of block guarantees a small band of young people came together calling themselves 'the Langham Committee' which has been able to ensure that some 200 working class men and girls are able to enter Great Britain.This copy appeal and account documents the committee's activities. 929/3 is a narrative account of its activities...

  3. Jack Barden collection

    This collection comprises personal and family correspondence; correspondence and papers regarding the assistance given to a number of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, particularly relating to Professor Raphael Sokolowsky

  4. Herbert Malinow collection

    This collection comprises material which documents the period when Herbert Malinow was interned as an enemy alien and subsequently transported on the infamous ship, HMS Dunera to Australia. It includes diaries, correspondence and press cuttings

  5. Correspondence with Berent, Walter

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding Berent’s contribution to The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. This includes submitting an account on his own experiences as well as interviewing other survivors and refugees in England.

  6. Correspondence with Berlin, Walter

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence comprises mainly birthday wishes. Furthermore, a letter of condolence on occasion of Berlin's passing in 1963 in contained.

  7. Correspondence with Aufbau

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the birthdays of Rudolf Apt and Georg Salzberger, and the death of Kurt Sabatzky, all three of them Jewish-German refugees in England. The latter had worked as secretary for The Wiener Library from 1947-53, and had been involved in the institute's eyewitness testimony project.

  8. Correspondence with Buckeridge & Braune

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence, with refugees Rudolf Graupner and Hans Jacobi almost exclusively, regarding restitution related information requests, and the lending of certain materials from the Library. The enquiries include among others former camps Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Sobibor. Moreover, Jacobi’s own restitution claim in West Germany, his Library membership and his authorship of a book review, published in the Library’s Bulletin, are mentioned.

  9. Papers on Otto Schiff

    Notes, correspondence, primary documents (most photocopied) and secondary literature written or collated by A. J. Sherman and Pamela Shtazkes to write an article on Otto Schiff. Their article appeared in The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook in 2009. In addition the collection contains a similar set of materials created or collected by Joan Stiebel, who had worked closely with Schiff in the 1930s and 1940s. Particularly interesting are the drafts Stiebel wrote of a longer, unpublished memoir or autobiography of Schiff; these also examine her work with refugees after 1945.

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  12. Chaja Cohn: Memoirs of German Jewish Exile, nd

    This collection of stories and reminiscences was collated by Chaja Cohn, a former refugee residing in Israel, who had spent several years in China.

  14. Curtis family: Copy correspondence

  15. Heinrich Stern collection

    Family correspondence and papers re emigration

  19. Mr. Wreschner: correspondence

    This collection comprises the correspondence of Martin Wreschner in Shanghai from his mother and sister Mira in Germany.