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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 

  7. Paula Albersheim: Personal papers

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

  8. Kahn family: papers

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

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Moses and Wolf Blau: short biographical statements

    It is not known in which context these two original signed statements by Moses Blau and his son Wolf, German Jewish refugees in Amsterdam were made. However the formal presentation and details contained therein suggest that the document was created as part of a process of registration possibly with the Dutch authorities or a Jewish relief organisation.

  12. Hay internment camp, New South Wales, Australia: copy camp magazine

    This collection appears to consist of two separate deposits, the provenance of which is not known. The first item is a copy of the Camp 7 Hay magazine Boomerang. The second is a woodcut image of the camp, dated 1940-1.

  13. Czech and Czech Jewish immigrants in Great Britain: various documents

    Material which documents some of the activities of organisations in Great Britain which were involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era.

  14. Wolf and Marcelle Lemberger: Copy letter

  15. Lothar Nelken: Diaries

    Diaries of Lothar Nelken

  16. Cahn family papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn (the depositor) from England to her father in Mönchen- Gladbach, 1940s. Also included is a copy claim form by Fritz Cahn in Canda for compensation from the city of Mönchen- Gladbach.Sophie's father, Emanuel, died in Theresienstadt in 1942. The children ended up in Canada, USA, UK, and Israel.

  17. Report on the extermination of the Jews in Europe - not dated

    Copy report on the Nazi extermination camps. The facts within the report are allegedly based upon the testimonies of both Jews who witnessed mass killings and SS personnel who were guards at the camp.

  18. Kindertransport questionnaire survey material

    Kindertransport questionnaire survey material . Note that the original forms are closed to the public.An anonymised speadsheet containing extrapolated data from the forms is accessible in the readimng room.Readers need to book a terminal in the reading room to access his material .

  19. Podhorcer family documents

    This collection of family documents consists of official papers such as copy birth, marriage and death certificates of an Austrian Jewish couple, who, it is assumed managed to escape to Great Britain just before the war (certificates declaring the couple's payment of any outstanding debts to the state are dated 1939).

  20. Jewish Board of Deputies' Aliens Committee: minutes and reports

    The material sheds light on the role of the Aliens Committee of the Board of Deputies with respect to the treatment of aliens in Britain in the early 1930s.