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  1. Clive Teddern: The Hyphen News and other papers

    The bulk of the collection is materials produced in Clive Teddern’s role as editor of The Hyphen News. Also included are his memoirs and papers of the Otto Hirsch Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation.

  2. Correspondence from Gurs concentration camp, France

    These two postcards offer a brief insight into conditions at Gurs internment camp experienced by Berta Kahnheimer, a German (?) Jewish inmate.

  3. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  4. Anni and Walter Robinson: family photographs

    This collection consists of family photographs and postcards of Anni Robinsohn and her husband Walter Robinsohn, Jewish refugees from Hamburg who emigrated from Nazi Germany to London in the late 1930s.Personal papers including family photographs and postcards, also included are a small metal plaque of Dr Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and a piece of painted stained glass.

  5. Correspondence with Bergman, George Francis Jack

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the consignment and discussion of Bergman’s research work and source material. This concerns especially a typescript on Jewish-German mountaineers, and large materials (including own diaries) on the fate of Jewish refugees in French internment camps in North Africa. Furthermore, the situation of Jews in Australia as well as the malfunctioning practice of restitution claims in France are briefly addressed

  6. Correspondence with American Jewish Kartell-Convent (KC) Fraternity Inc.

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a meeting of K.C. members in Chicago, an article on the Jewish community in Bentschen (now Zbąszyń, Poland) Alfred Wiener contributed to a K.C. jubilee publication, and birthday notes for Frederick S. Aron, Bruno Weil, and the late Ludwig Holländer. Contained is an issue of the American Jewish K.C. Fraternity Bulletin including a brief article by Wiener on Bruno Weil.

  7. Correspondence with Arbeitskreis 1961

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the establishment of , and organisational and financial details of its activities. The latter refers to monthly events, mainly public talks on historical subjects or current affairs, but also film screenings or a guided tour through The Wiener Library (November 14, 1962). Beside letters several minutes of board meetings and invitation cards for events are contained.

  8. Correspondence with Cohn, George

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding numerous restitution related information requests which concerned: the ghetto in Riga; the emigration of Jewish-German refugees to Turkey 1933-1936; the (NSBO); fatigue duty for Jews in Hungary; deportations from Berlin; the ghetto in Chernivtsi; internment camps in Italy; the ghetto in Belzyce; special terms on gold coins in Austria; a Jewish asylum in Breslau; a hospital for children in Prague; the legal situation in Danzig after the German occupation; a case of in Frankfurt am Main; the situation of married couples in Theresienstadt; and antisemitic incidents in ...

  9. Papers of I.M. Greenberg

    Jewish Chronicle Birmingham Jewish Recorder Jewish Chronicle Correspondence and papers relating to the , 1935-46; papers dealing with refugees, resettlement, on Palestine, Israel Aliya, United Zionist Revisionists and general Zionist matters, 1939-49; material relating to Shelach, Arab refugees, 1948-9, to Irgun and to Herut. General correspondence and notes, together with correspondence and material dealing with Jewish defence, anti-Semitism and associated subjects; army correspondence chiefly with M. Gollop and L. Rabinowitz; correspondence with M. Trau, Lord Nathan, Neville J. Laski, Leo...

  10. Solomon family papers

    Correspondence, in German and Russian, of Harry Solomon (Chaim Salomonowitz), 1897-1950, with family members in Liepaja, and Riga and Vilnius, including a long series of letters from his wife, Jenka/Jenny, 1910-15; correspondence with and about other members of the family as refugees from Russia, including letters from Novi Sad (Serbia), 1921

  11. Correspondence, memoranda and other papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, 1933-1940

    Correspondence, memoranda and other papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, 1933-1940, founded to collect funds for the support of academic refugees from Nazi Germany.

  12. Youth Aliyah: Copy documents re the Hascharah Training Centre, Braunton, Devon

    Account of the Hascharah training centre at Braunton, Devon, consisting of typescript notes, transcripts of letters and copies of letters and other documents with Fred Dunston's annotations22 pages English 

  13. Paula Albersheim: Personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of German Jew Paula Albersheim documenting her preparations for emigration to England in 1939.

  14. Kahn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers and photographs of Seligmann and Alice Kahn, a Jewish family from Heilbronn.

  15. Gerd Ledermann: letter regarding life in Nepal

    This collection contains a letter of a former Kindertransportee Gerd Ledermann reflecting on his new life in Nepal between 1986 and 1989.

  16. Joseph Yecheskel Helerman: postcard

    This collection contains a postcard from Joseph Yecheskel Helerman in Bodzanow, Poland, to his brother in London. Helerman refers to the dowry for a bride and to his brother-in-law, Moshe Oved (1885-1958), a London based jeweller and author.

  17. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    New Statesman and Nation. The file includes reports and correspondence concerning economic and labour statistics in Palestine, the continuing immigration of Jewish refugees, continuing violence in Palestine including the Tiberias Massacre, and the proceedings of the Palestine Partition Commission. There is also an account of the activities of Jewish activists and organisations in the United States, interviews with several statesmen about Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state, and several clippings from the

  18. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    This file contains correspondence concerning pogroms in Poland and the liquidation of concentration camps, negotiations for the post-war borders of Russia and Poland, and the transportation of Jewish refugees to Palestine. The file also contains a report on the British search of the Ramat HaKovesh kibbutz, an eyewitness account of public opinion in Germany, and debates about whether newspapers should publish stories about the successful escapes of prisoners of war at the risk of compromising similar escape attempts.

  19. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    This file contains correspondence relating to the Second World War, including the mobilisation of Finnish and Russian forces, German propaganda, British naval intelligence, economic and natural resources in Germany, relations with neutral countries, especially Romania and Scandinavian countries, and the treatment of Jewish refugees by British forces in Palestine. The file includes correspondence from journalists including Marcel Fodor, correspondent in Brussels.

  20. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Manchester Guardian The file primarily contains correspondence and Crozier's notes relating to domestic affairs, including reports of air raid casualties, circulation of the , food shortages, and relations with Ireland and Irish neutrality. Foreign correspondence concerns reports from French soldiers and other informants in Syria, diplomatic relations with the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, and the Vichy government, Spain's annexation of Tangiers, and Jewish refugees turned away in Palestine.