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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Correspondence with Borchard, Lucy

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence concerns Borchard’s financial contributions to The Wiener Library as well as an enquiry for writing an eyewitness account for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

  2. Correspondence with Bonn, Moritz Julius

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence concerns an article Bonn had authored for The Wiener Library Bulletin, and the approach of influential individuals in West Germany, including its president Theodor Heuss.

  3. Correspondence with Bondy, Louis Wolfgang

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on everyday issues, mainly the acquisition of books. Contained is also the copy of a certification of employment dates and salary of Bondy for his time at the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam.

  4. Correspondence with Brueckheimer, Lassar

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the publication of a typescript on the destruction of Jewish communities in Germany during the November Pogrom 1938, authored by late Simon Brückheimer. Beside L. Brueckheimer, the bundle of papers contains several other correspondents involved in this process including representatives of two small publishing houses. Following a microfilm copy of the Brückheimer material The Wiener Library had produced for Yad Vashem, copy right issues are addressed.

  5. 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.

  6. Correspondence with Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (BVN)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding historical subjects and political activities of the BVN. This includes among others the terms of access to German records in British archives, information about prominent Nazis and now West German officials Werner Naumann and Wilhelm Voss, the fate of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis liner, the conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom in 1938, and the controversial German-Jewish author and right-wing activist Josef Ginsburg (aka J. G. Burg).

  7. Correspondence with Broh, Richard

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a personal account for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project, and the scheduling of meetings.

  8. Correspondence with Buxton, Dorothy Francis

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The hand- and typewritten letters concern Buxton’s offer to provide The Wiener Library with selected books and material from her private collection. She further claimed to have met and briefly interviewed Hermann Göring in Germany on March 26, 1935. Beside letters, the correspondence contains a memo about a meeting with Buxton as well as a clipping of her obituary published in .

  9. Correspondence with Buys-Plaut, Edith

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a restitution related request to Alfred Wiener for a sworn statement about Buys-Plaut’s employment at the (C.V.). Contained is further correspondence with Max Markreich, former chairman of the Jewish community Bremen, whom she had contacted too. Besides, the options for publishing a study of Markreich’s on the Jewish community Bremen is discussed.

  10. Correspondence with Caley, T.

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Thank you note to T. Caley for sending a report on her persecution during National Socialism to the Wiener Library.

  11. Correspondence with Cahn, Walter

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding a meeting during an upcoming trip of Alfred Wiener to the Netherlands in July 1955.

  12. Correspondence with Eschelbacher, Max

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on Eschelbacher gathering and providing information on numerous Library enquiries on individuals as well as events. Furthermore, light is thrown on his involvement in the Library’s eyewitness testimony project including the contribution of an own account on his experiences in Düsseldorf during the November Pogrom 1938.

  13. Correspondence with Eisemann, Heinrich

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence about Eisemann’s advice for the Wiener Library regarding the receipt or purchase of Judaica. This includes among others a collection of items and papers related to the Mendelssohn family. Contained is also an enquiry by Eisemann for background information on an undated typescript of an Albert Einstein speech, which he had recently acquired.

  14. Correspondence with Ehrlich, Toni

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding certain material of historic relevance including the unpublished memoirs of her mother’s youth.

  15. Adler family: official personal documents

    Collection of official personal documents, correspondence and press cuttings of members of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936. Includes certificates of birth and death, speeches, work references, certificates of naturalisation, passports, marriage certificates, declaration of acquisition of British nationality and school reports of Bruno and Meta Adler (1664/1), Erich and Ursula Adler (1664/2), Moritz Israel and Elise Mecklenburg (1664/3), and Feist and Betty Landau (1664/4).

  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. Peter Ury: personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Peter Ury, a Jewish composer from Cologne who emigrated to England in 1939 to escape persecution in Germany. Included are some musical scores of his work, correspondence and press cuttings. Also included are various membership and ID cards of Alfred and Ernina Unger (parents of Peter Ury's wife).