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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Frank Saalfeld: Family papers

    This collection comprises the following folders: (1868/1) birth and death certificates, residency permit and British embassy Tehran registration certificates, 1876-1945; (1868/2) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1911-1926; (1868/3) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1913-1924; (1868/4) correspondence to Margarethe from various correspondents, 1914-1933; (1868/5) correspondence to Margarethe from her sister, Hanna, 1918-1925; (1868/6) correspondence to Margarethe from Ruth Dammann, 1918-1932; 1868/7 correspondence between Margarethe and Hanna, ...

  2. Freddie Knoller: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers survived in England and the United States respectively.Included are letters (with translations) from Freddie Knoller’s parents, mainly addressed to his brother Erich, giving an insight into their fea...

  3. Muehlstein family: Papers

    This collection contains the family papers of the Muehlstein family, Jewish refugees from Vienna.Family papers including correspondence and supporting documents relating to restitution and pension claims and war-time Red Cross correspondence between parents and children. Also included is a photograph of Erika and Herbert Muehlstein before their emigration in 1937.In an audio interview the donor describes: being born in Vienna 2 years after her brother in 1932; how her father was beaten up and persecuted by the Nazis; how her brother, who was also badly affected followed his sister after a f...

  4. Sophie Friedländer: personal papers and interviews

    This collection contains the personal papers of Sophie Friedländer, who was a teacher at the Jewish boarding school in Caputh, near Potsdam and later emigrated to the UK as a German Jewish refugee.Personal papers including correspondence, photographs, papers and press cuttings relating to the former Jewish school in Caputh; correspondence with German broadcasting companies regarding the production of a TV documentary on Kindertransporte and the former school in Caputh 'Als ob man nur ein bischen wegfährt' (1990); draft autobiography of Hilde Jarecki and correspondence regarding a joint auto...

  5. Lilli Krieger Collection

    This collection comprises the following folders: Personal papers of Lilli Krieger (née Jacobsohn) including Jewish id card and travel document, confirmation that she was not a member of the Bund Deutscher Maedel, school and work references and material re compensation claim, 1922-2006; Lilli Krieger (née Jacobsohn)- school reports, 1929-1937; Lilli Krieger (née Jacobsohn)- correspondence from parents and others, 1922-1957; Jacobsohn family papers including death certificates for Paul and Hildegard and birth certificate for Hildegard, affidavit from Kaethe Jacobsohn re death of brother in la...

  6. Ernst Levy Collection

    The collection consists of official and private documents belonging to members of the Levy and Thilo families, including their correspondence and photographs. It provides insights into the lives of a German-Jewish and a German-British family before, during and after the Nazi era. Although containing materials from several individuals, the majority of the papers pertains to Ernst Moritz Levy and his wife Helen Levy-Thilo. Related to the lives of the protagonists, this exceptionally rich collection covers a wide range of subjects, including among others: German immigrants in the North of Engl...

  7. Irenka and Ladislav Gottlieb correspondence

    Correspondence to Irenka and Ladislav Gottlieb in London and Blanka, a cousin in USA from the grandparents of the donor. Includes translations of the Slovakian material.

  8. Kurt Gerron: personal papers re Theresienstadt film

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises the papers of Kurt Gerron which were created during the course of making the infamous propaganda film, which he directed and which was shot in Theresienstadt-Ghetto in 1944. It was originally entitled Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet but came to be known as Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt. The papers consist of descriptions of the days' shooting; itemized camera shot descriptions; narrator's text and related correspondence and papers. The pap...

  9. Material relating to the persecution of the Gypsies under the Nazis

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  10. Eva Mills: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Eva Mills and her mother Gertrude Najman. Eva was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1938 whilst her parents fled Germany separately aiming to reach Palestine. Eva's father, Jankiel Najmann, managed to get to Haifa in 1944 after spending several months at Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp in Italy. Her mother, Gertrude Najmann, became a prisoner at Semlin concentration camp in Yugoslavia. She survived and was released in May 1942. Gertrude was unable to leave Yugoslavia until the end of the Second World War when she joined her husband ...

  11. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...

  12. Linton (Liebermann) family: papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Louis Alexander Linton (formerly Ludwig Alexander Liebermann) and Susan Maria Linton (née Susanne Marie Friedmann), Jewish refugees from Berlin. Louis Linton was advised not to return from a business trip to England due to the anti-Semitic climate in Nazi Germany. His wife and children followed him a few months later in 1937. Susan Linton's father, Leopold Friedmann, died on the journey to Argentina when he and his wife Maria Friedmann fled Nazi-Germany in 1940.Records documenting the Linton family's emigration, internment and new life in Engl...

  13. Board of Deputies: Defence committee papers

    FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS ARCHIVE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FIELD AND PRINTOUT, FILL OUT AND SEND TO ADDRESS GIVEN.The Defence Archive contains reports from the Jewish community's observers who attended many local and national meetings held by these groups, assessments of the groups' aims and capabilities, correspondence with the police and government, as well as the minutes of the Board's committees. Part of the Defence Archive has remained closed but in 2011 it was decided to put it on long term loan with the Wiener Library so that researchers of the perio...

  14. The Red Book: The membership list of Captain Ramsay's Right Club

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentIt is the membership list of Captain Ramsay's Right Club, a body founded in May 1939 'to oppose and expose the activities of Organised Jewry'. Most of the members of the club were enlisted between May and July 1939, i.e. before the outbreak of the Second World War, and the list therefore gives no evidence as to any activities undertaken after the declaration of war.Though the name of the Right Club does not figure at the head of the volume, this is clearly the lost Right Club list for the following reasons:The physic...

  15. World Jewish Congress: Central files

    Central Files consists of 103 boxes (41.2 linear feet) containing history of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), especially prior to 1940. The series includes correspondence and miscellaneous other materials of WJC leaders, together with minutes and records of conferences and committee meetings. The series name, “Central Files”, was adopted from an existing WJC series consisting of executive files and records from conferences and committees. Central Files includes material unrelated to any one specific department. For more material on specific departments see Series B through G.Spanning the ye...

  16. Leon Greenman personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Leon Greenman, a British survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, documenting his experiences in the camps and post-war educational and political activities relating to the Holocaust.

  17. 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.

  18. Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen: Documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of reports and papers documents conditions at Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen POW camps. It includes camp reports, correspondence, reports of escapes, and statements by prisoners.Camp reports, including statistics on inmates; deaths/ discharges; executions; health statistics; organisational changesStalag VIII B Lamsdorf, Sep 1943Stalag VIII B Teschen, Dec 1943Stalag VIII B Teschen, Mar 1944Stalag VIII B Teschen, Jun 1944Stalag VIII B Teschen, Jul 1944Stalag VIII B Teschen...

  19. Gilel Storch: copy correspondence and article re Storch's war-time activities

    This collection comprises two separate deposits both made by Hilel (Gilel) Storch, a Latvian Jew and Swedish resident, who helped save the lives of thousands of European Jews during the Nazi era.The earlier deposit (765/1-2) consists of two folders of copy correspondence with enclosures between Storch and two historians, Gerald Fleming and Monty N. Penkower respectively. The later deposit (765/3) is a copy article with translation about the life of Hilel Storch. In order to place the contents of these files in context there followers a brief resumé of Hilel Storch's life and war-time activi...

  20. Betty Wixon: correspondence re estate and pension

    This collection contains correspondence relating to the estate of Betty Wixon (née Davidsohn) and her German pension awarded for loss of earnings under the Hitler regime.Correspondence re estate and a copy of her death certificate and draft affidavit for Betty Wixon's restitution claim.