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Holding Institution: Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

  1. [Correspondence regarding 'das Laterndl']

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains newspaper reports, critiques and letters regarding the 'Laterndl, Wiener Kleinkunstbühne' (the Lantern). The Lantern was a small theater, founded and run by Austrian exiles in London during World War II. It was connected to the 'Austrian center', the 'Free Austrian Movement' and the 'Interniertenfond'. Opened on June 21st, 1939, it was active throughout the war years, with a break between summer 1940 and 1941, when most of the Austrian refugees were interned. The newspaper reports are published by the 'Zeitspiegel', which was a weekly published newspaper. The newspaper inf...

  2. Correspondence of the British Embassy in Berlin

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains informations about the History of Refugees in Noth England. Mr H. Loebl shared his findings with the Wiener library in London in 1979. He came across a correspondence between the Commercial Counsellor of the British Embassy in Berlin and the secretary of a local development organization in the years of 1936 till 1939. The Photocopies of the correspondence of the British Embassy in Berlin are regarding German Jewish professionals and possibilities for them to migrate to Great Britain. To accelerate the migration process the Emabssy, the British home office and the local org...

  3. [Memorandum about the rejection of emigration at the Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A Memorandum about the conference's rejection of emigration as a solution and the condemnation of the government's actions in depriving a minority of its legal and human rights. The memorandum suggests retraining young Jews in agricultural and manual occupations to find ways of financing the immigration. Hope that the Conference will seek to deal both with the causes of the trouble and with the immediate alleviation of the problem of refugees. Germany must release the immigrants' property. It is hoped that the Conference will establish a small executive body which will direct and supervise ...

  4. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organizations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several lettes. Mostly between the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, the American Jont Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Topics mentioned in the letters are establishing or continuing hostels in Bratislava, religous schools in Slovakia, funds for a Kosher Kitchen and an old aged home in Prague. As it might be a specifically Jewish need for some refugees and essential for their welfare. Also grants have been asked for necessary reconstruction of a hospital and claims involving restitution of Jewish property.

  5. [A letter from Bentwich to Lord Herbert Samuel regarding Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A letter regarding the Zionists' wish to bring before the Evian Conference the whole Jewish problem and their pressure for the opening of Palestine for larger Jewish emigration. The American government is calling the conference primarily to deal with the problem of refugees from Germany and Austria rather than with a purely Jewish problem. There is no point of turning conference into a Jewish problem and it is better to focus on non-Aryan victims in Austria. According to Bentwich, it seems to be a pity that they Zionist should at this moment stress the need for a much greater immigration in...

  6. Der Leidensweg von Zensl Mühsam

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The publication focuses on the hardships in the life of Zensl Mühsam. She was the wife of Erich Mühsam who had been murdered by the Nazis in 1934. Zensl first fled to Czechoslovakia and then to Russia, where she was arrested and sent to a camp in Siberia. Many of her letters to the author describing the abuse and torture of her husband and her desperation are reprinted. After her arrest she disappeared, and the author tried for many years to learn her fate. In 1949 he still searches for any sign of life of Zensl.

  8. [Casualties World War II (2)]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second out of two files containing various documents on the number of casualties during World War II. The documents include typewritten and handwritten notes and excerpts, as well as copies from books and articles. The information regarding statistics of casualties, victims, refugees, and the extent of destruction stems from various sources, such as encyclopedias, books, newspaper articles and research articles published between 1941 and 1975. Some of the documents deal with authors and publications promoting Holocaust denial. The sources were published in various languages:...

  9. Minutes of a meeting of the editing sub-committe held at the offices of the Council of the German Jewry, Woburn house, on Thursday, 2nd June, 1938, at 11:00 a.m.

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Summary of a meeting and the tasks to consider the draft memorandum, which the chairman had prepared and should be given to the Council for German Jewry, and to suggest headings for material to be prepared by the Jewish organizations for submission to the Evian Conference.

  10. [DALJEWCIB correspondence with Jewish emigrees from Germany categorized into professions]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence with Jewish emigrees and interested parties from Germany, as well as Jewish relief organizations categorized into professions.

  11. [Circular letters regarding the labor camps administrations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains scans of several circular letters, sent to the leaders of immigrants labor camps in Switzerland. Beside a compulsory english course for the inmates or holiday entitlements, the correspondence deals with the camps supply of food, toiletries or clothings as well as instructions for the handeling of several insurances and further bureaucracy. The instructions were given out by the Central Labor Camp Administration in Zurich and were mostly signed by the head of the Central Administration Otto Zaugg.

  12. Reglement für die Lagerführung

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains scans of several instructions given to the leaders of immigrants labor camps in Switzerland. The instructions mostly relate to the rules of daily life and the working conditions for the camps staff and leaders. Further instructions relate to the bureaucracy which was necessary to provide smooth processes in the camps. The orders were given out by the Central Labor Camp Administration in Zurich(Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager, Zürich) and were mostly signed by the head of the Central Administration Otto Zaugg.

  13. Magazine of Central Promenade Camp, Isle of man

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an example of the Central Promenade Paper, a weekly newspaper of the Central Promenade Camp in Douglas, Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). The newspaper is relating mainly to civilian internment camps on the Isle of Man, including a series of camp orders, letters and other papers from internees concerning conditions of internment and questioning the official categorisation of 'enemy aliens', instructions to internees who were about to be released and other miscellaneous papers can be seen. The ne...

  14. [Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration from Austria in 1938 and life as a refugee in Great Britain]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration of Jewish citizens from Austria in 1938 after the so called "Anschluss" of Austria to the Third Reich. Additionally information pages on life as a refugee in Great Britain, employement regulations, official German questionaires regarding emigration, official instructions for children boarding one of the "Kindertransports" as well as containing lists with adresses and general advice.

  15. [World Jewish Congress of Paris 1939]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains protocols, reports and memoranda issued either officially or internally during the Paris 1939 World Jewish Congress meetings by working groups and the organization itself. The file contains protocols and proposed resolutions regarding the situation of European Jewry and refugees from fascist and National Socialist rule as well as lists of individually attending delegates and national delegations. Moreover the file also contains resolutions and proposals regarding emergency relief of Jewish persons who suffered under Nazi and fascist rule. The reports within this file are w...

  16. [Casualties World War II (1)]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first out of two files containing various documents on the number of casualties during World War II. The documents include handwritten notes and excerpts, copies from books and articles, and typewritten excerpts. The information regarding the number of casualties, victims, refugees, and the extent of destruction stems from various sources, such as encyclopedias, books, newspaper articles and research articles published between 1939 and 1969. The sources were published in various languages: English, French, German, and Italian.

  17. [DALJEWCIB Correspondence on a translation of a report on the Jewish situation in Shanghai by the "Jewish Messenger"]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB Correspondence on a translation of a report on the Jewish situation in Shanghai by the English language Zionist periodical "Jewish Messenger"(17.3.1939), magazine, published by emigrees from Europe, detailing living conditions in China, the overall political situation and many more aspects od daily life.

  18. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organisations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several letters. Various grants have been given by the Central British Fund for establishing an old aged home in Bratislava and a recreation home for the youth in Beskydy. Furthermore problems have been mentioned of ealier grants for student bursaries given by the Central British Fund concerning their appropriate use. The correspondence is between members of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovaki, the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia and th...

  19. [DALJEWCIB correspondence regarding the finalizing of entry visa regulations for Dairen and Manchukuo by the country's officials]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin regarding the finalization of visa regulations for temporary and permanent residential status in Mandchukuo detailing regulations for European Jewish refugees in terms of entry into Mandchukuo by sea or landroute. Different rules apply according to Mandchurian officials.

  20. Aus der Emigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    “Aus der Emigration” (From the exile), account by Dr. Curt Rosenberg for the years of 1939 to 1948 about his emigration from Germany, life in Glasgow as a refugee, internment in Bury and the Isle of Man. He describes in vivid detail the peaceful life in Glasgow, the interesting characters among the refugees in the internment camps in Bury and Camp Hutchinson, and the variety of cultural activities organized by the inmates. Later on he returns to Glasgow, where he describes the strained relationship between the established Jews and the refugees. It includes a program of cultural activities f...