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Language of Description: German
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Country: United Kingdom

  1. Correspondence with Asociación Austria Cultural

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding Robert Otto Gerö, an Austrian Jew living in Argentina. As former member of the in Vienna Gerö had reportedly helped the Gestapo to detect Jews in hiding in order to avoid his own deportation.

  4. Letter re Jews in German army

    Copy of a letter from Dr Best of the Gestapo, Berlin, to the Reichskriegsminister concerning discussions held by Kurt Sabatzki of the Central Verein and Generalleutnant von Bonin as to whether Jews could serve in the German Army. The report about these discussions reached the Gestapo, Berlin, via the Staatspolizeistelle, Magdeburg 

  5. Edgar Dreyfus: Family papers

    The papers in this collection document in part the lives of a French Jewish family and their experiences during the German occupation.

  6. Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Agathe Barthel's property

    Copy order re the confiscation of all Agathe Barthel's property in accordance with laws ordaining the removal of the property of communists and enemies of the state.German 

  7. Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Adolf Israel Scheyer's property

    Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Adolf Israel Scheyer's property in accordance with a law relating to former German citizens (Scheyer had left Germany on 24 February 1939)German 

  8. Copy report of transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk

    This is an apparently authentic certified copy of a report about a transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk, which commenced on 10 November 1941. The author was Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, Meurin. The document is countersigned by Oberwachtmeister der Sch[utzpolizei?] [illegible]. Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city's Jews. The description of the embarkatio...

  9. Copy documents re Bad Aussee resistance movement and Operation Bernhard

    This collection of copy documentation relates to the Austrian resistance movement during the Nazi era and to the attempt by the Nazis to wage economic warfare by flooding Britain with counterfeit British currency in the operation named Unternehmen Bernhard, after the Gestapo officer in charge, Bernhard Krueger

  10. Bertha Pappenheim: Copy letter

    Copy letter of Bertha Pappenheim, dated FrankfurtBarely legible 

  11. Order re measures against Jews, Vienna

    Order from the Führer des SS Oberabschnittes österreich, Vienna, to all SS units referring to an order of Gauleiter Buerckel that all section leaders were to be responsible for preventing actions by the SS against Jews and that if measures have to be taken against Jews these would be carried out by the authorities and the Gestapo.It bears a stamp (in French) of the U.S. 3rd Army, which suggests it became a captured document probably during the occupation of Austria by the allies at the end of the war.

  12. Joachim Prinz: Miscellaneous papers

  13. Copy papers re the Holocaust in Poland

    1295/1 Sheet of copy photographs containing the following 3 images: nd1) undated photograph of children in a classroom at Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. The children perished at Auschwitz in May 1944. The teacher was the depositor's mother. 2) undated photograph of a woman, Sarah Krischer, who was selected by Mengele in May 1944. She was 27 years old. Her 2 sisters, brother and nephews as well as parents were selected by Mengele and gassed on the day of arrival. 3) undated photograph taken in Volhynia province, Poland. The 2 men with beards were murdered. The one on the left is Rabbi I...

  14. Ellinor Adler: Family documents

    This collection of family documents describes the plight of a Viennese family: an aryan woman, her Jewish husband and their daughter. In addition to some original documentation, there are 2 personal accounts by the mother, Maria Goldschmied, which cover the period from the arrival of the Nazis to the 1970s when she used to still visit her native Austria. Of particular interest are the memoirs at 1319/11-12 and material relating to Alwin Goldschmied's arrest, including a visitor's pass allowing his wife to visit him in prison which was retained and used to rebut official denials that he was ...

  15. Morgan and Morgan-Ruffner papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, draft play scripts, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, news cuttings, photographs and ephemera, which together document the lives of an Austrian Jewish actor who died at Buchenwald before the war and his wife who became a prominent journalist and socialite.

  16. Joseph Sheldon: account re the liberation of Esterwege concentration camp

    This collection comprises an account by Joseph Sheldon, formerly Jozef Szwarcman, a medical officer holding the rank of Lieutenant in the 1st Polish Armoured Division, of his experiences shortly after the liberation of Esterwege concentration camp, Lower Saxony,and a page torn from a volume which listed details of inmates of that camp.

  17. Nazi persecution of Jehova's Witnesses

    This collection of copy documentation records the Nazi persecution of Jehova's witnesses. It consists of a range of documents, the originals of which are held by a variety of archives, and were brought together by the Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher. It is assumed that this is only a fraction of the total material which this institution holds. The purpose behind this selection is unknown.The range of material covers lists of camp inmates from a number of concentration camps; Nazi military court verdicts in cases of conscientious objection; Gestapo correspondence; case files on in...

  18. Gunter Wittenberg: copy personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Gunter Wittenberg, a former German Jewish refugee from Berlin. The papers contain an extract from his diary covering the early years in this country and correspondence and papers relating to his work history.

  19. 'Hidden Jews of Berlin': transcript interviews

    This collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted for the TV programme The Hidden Jews of Berlin. Also floppy disk of the same. The subjects include detailed accounts of life in hiding in Berlin during World War II; experience of capture, interrogation by Jewish collaborators and Gestapo and betrayal by Jews; Mischlinge; Fabrikation; Siemens; Rosenstrasse protest; Grosse Hamburger Strasse; life in Berlin before the war.

  20. Harry Jarvis: family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz), Bukovina, Ukraine. It is a relatively rare example of material from the German speaking Jewish community of this region and, as such, is valuable evidence of a now effectively extinct era. Item 1617/14 is an accrual which was added on 3.2.2011.