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  1. Senta Hirtz collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Senta Hirtz, including: school and professional training certificates; papers relating to her work as a physiotherapist; report on her Jewish Relief Unit work at the welfare centre near the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, in 1945 describing the conditions at the hospital, search office and activities of the social club; unpublished memoirs; extracts from diaries, poetry and personal notes; travel journals of holidays in Greece and the USA in the 1970s; report on a trip to her former home in Germany in 1992; and pers...

  2. Kurt and Edith Brent: personal papers

    Documents including family correspondence describing the difficult living conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Second World War; Kurt Brent's papers collected in preparation for emigration such as school certificates, 'Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung', German passport and driving license, British army soldier's service and pay book, soldier's release book, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen membership card and his memoirs; as well as Edith Brent's emigration papers such as training certificates, testimonials and work references, marriage certificate and correspondence relation to war co...

  3. Günther Wittenberg: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers and correspondence of Günther Wittenberg who was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939.Personal papers including a list of belongings taken to England (1722/1), cv and job applications, notices by the Ministry of Labour and National Service local appeal board, correspondence with family and friends (1722/3) and family trees (1722/5). Also included are letters from the Committee of the Landsberg Jewish Center and Jewish Committee of DP Center 7 Deggendorf regarding the fate of his parents (1722/4).English German

  4. Fokschaner family: personal papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this materialThis collection consists of the personal papers of the Fokschaner family, Rumanian Jews from Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, now Ukraine).Family papers including the papers and authenticated copies of papers of Max and Sarina Fokschaner (1728/1-2), Otto and Erika Fokschaner (1728/3-5), Erich Lupul and Else Fokschaner (1728/7), Wolfgang Fokschaner (1728/6), Karoline Fokschaner, Johanna Fokschaner (1728/8) and Klara Löwner (1728/5). Documents include certificate of Palestinian naturalisation; affidavit in lieu of passport; nationalit...

  5. Erica Prean: copy personal correspondence and family research

    This collection contains correspondence regarding the family history of Erica Prean. Research into the history of the family was carried out as part of a project at the Walburgisgymnasium in Menden to commemorate the lives of the Jewish citizens who were victims of the Shoah. Family papers Including is a photocopy of a family photograph.Also included are transcripts and translations into English of letters sent to Ilse Bernstein and her daughter Erica in England from Ilse's parents Carl and Emmy Bernstein and aunt Adda (1939-1940) English and German Also text of talk given at HMD 27.1.2018,...

  6. Eric Nash: copy personal correspondence and papers

    This collection contains an eyewitness account and reminiscences by Eric Nash, a Jewish Czech physician who survived Terezin and Auschwitz concentration camps and the death march to Dachau, where he was liberated by the American army. Most members of his closest family did not survive the Holocaust.Personal account and reminiscences. Also included is a letter (with a translation into English) written to relatives in New York shortly after his liberation describing in graphic detail the fate of his loved ones and his experiences in the concentration camps; and notes regarding a trip through ...

  7. Material relating to Ernst Chain and Anne Beloff-Chain

    This collection contains material relating to German-born biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Ernst Chain and his wife Anne Beloff-Chain.Personal papers including press cuttings, announcements and an invitation to a family event, programmes for the scientific colloquium at Hoechst AG and anniversary of the births of Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring in 1954, and 'Formeln und Tafeln zum Preisvortrag von Prof. E. B. Chain - Zur Entwicklung der Chemotherapie bakterieller Erkrankungen'. Also includes a guide to the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, and 'Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Mediz...

  8. Documents relating to Bernhard Weiss

    This collection consists of material relating to Bernhard Weiss, a German Jewish lawyer and former Chief of the Berlin Criminal Police and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic.

  9. Estrea Aelion: copy jubilee album

    This collection consists of a copy jubilee album (translation from French) relating to the life and times of Estrea Aelion for her seven great-grandchildren in celebration of her hundredth birthday in May 1984, compiled by Jacqueline Golden. Estrea Aelion, of Greek Jewish origin, came to England in 1934. Her brother's family remained in Greece during the German occupation. Several of family members perished in concentration camps but her sister-in-law and niece survived in hiding in Athens.Album containing photographs and details of Estrea Aelion's life and that of her grandchildren an...

  10. Josef and Jenny Hausmann: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish family of Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Karlsruhe, who perished at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst their two daughters managed to flee Nazi-Germany in the 1930s.Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  11. Ilse Majer-Williams: family papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the family papers of Ilse Majer-Williams, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who escaped the Holocaust by being sent on a Kindertransport to wealthy sponsors in the UK in 1939. Personal papers including Ilse Majer-Williams' personal account and her biography; correspondence with family and friends; list of Ilse's belongings taken to the UK; papers documenting her parents' efforts to emigrate such as tax returns, insurance papers, tax and police clearance certificates, correspondence with the...

  12. Strauss family: personal papers and corresondence

    This collection consists of the papers of the Strauss family, German speaking Jews from Prague, most of whom managed to flee Nazi persecution.Personal papers including Julius Strauss' diary (incomplete) in which he describes the emigration of his children and his failed attempt to go to Paris in April 1939 to find accommodation for himself and Elsa; wartime correspondence between the parents, their children and friends; papers relating to Julius Strauss and Vilem Lesny's compensation claim; photographs; family trees; as well as papers relating to the estate of family friend, Otakar Bondy, w...

  13. Simonson and Schreiber families: family histories

    This collection contains autobiographical accounts of Alfred Simms and the family histories of the Simonson and Schreiber families and their ancestors.Autobiographical accounts of Alfred Simms and the family histories of the Simonson and Schreiber families and their ancestors. Also included are the funeral address and biography of Hans Schreiber, Alfred Simms uncle, who did not return from a temporary visit to Switzerland in 1938 and survived by getting married to Swiss national in 1942.English

  14. Gerda Mayer: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Gerda Mayer, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who came to England on a Kindertransport, whilst most of her family perished in the Holocaust. Personal papers including letters from family and friends (photocopies); copy of 'The emigrants', a compilation of translated letters sent to Gerda from her parents in Czechoslovakia; Johanna Travnicek's application for compensation under the Vertriebenenzuwendungsgesetz 1994; photographs; family trees; correspondence mainly between Gerda Mayer and the family of her rescuer Trevor Chadwick regarding t...

  15. Herbert Elliott: personal papers and memorabilia

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Herbert Elliott (formerly Eisenthal), a former Kindertransportee from Vienna who escaped Nazi persecutions in 1938. His sister emigrated to Palestine. His father was unable to leave Vienna but survived his imprisonment at Terezin concentration camp, where he was held for almost three years.Personal papers including Herbert Elliott's school reports and qualifications; birth certificate; certificate of origin (Heimatschein); declaration of property taken to England for the Foreign Exchange Office (Devisenstelle); steamship ticket from Hook to H...

  16. Elise Steiner: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elise Steiner, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in 1938. Her parents and younger brother were murdered at Kowno concentration camp in 1941. Includes family correspondence (together with typescripts) documenting the day to day activities and aspirations of a Jewish family in Vienna. Reoccurring themes include their gratitude that at least one child was able to escape and continue with her education, efforts to find a place on the Kindertransport for Elise's brother Leo Steiner, news of the fate of ...

  17. Lasker family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau. The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished.

  18. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague

    Contains records generated in the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) by the German occupiers and by dependent Czech agencies dealing with “internal security” and “racial policy.” It also contains case files from the Comité d'Assistance aux Réfugiés (Committee for Refugee Assistance) in Paris, 1933-1940 (probably captured there, taken to Germany, and evacuated to the Protectorate), including cases for refugees from Czechoslovakia, Austria, and other countries. Many documents derive from puppet ministries and agencies, including materials on deport...

  19. Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv

    Records of the Israeli Women's Association (Israelitische Frauenverein Zürich, IFZ): Statutes, minutes of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly, minutes of the meetings of the Children's home in Heiden, reference files handwritten by the association's presidents: Berty Guggenheim-Wyler, Sonja Weintraub, Myrthe Dreyfuss, correspondence and people dossiers relating to the care for children’s home, refugees, the poor, child and youth welfare, debt recovery of the Kinderheims Wartheim in Heiden, newspaper and magazine articles on the IFZ and Kinderheim Wartheim, photos, and delivery n...

  20. Documentary about the German invasion and siege of Poland

    In this ten minute film, Julien Bryan, the last neutral reporter remaining in Poland on September 1, 1939, records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack on Poland. Through actual footage taken during the siege, Bryan poignantly describes the frightening chain of events that finally resulted in the capitulation of Warsaw and Poland. During the early stages of the blitzkrieg, civilians were commandeered to dig ditches, set tank traps and shore up fortifications. Then, as the Polish soldiers retreated, Warsaw was surrounded and besieged. German planes, triumphant in the s...