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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Wegrzyn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.Wegrzyn family papers including are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emig...

  2. Papers regarding Erich Wolfsfeld

    This collection consists of papers relating to German Jewish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, Erich Wolfsfeld.Papers Including mainly press cuttings regarding his exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, drawings, photographs and correspondence from Franka Minden. Also includes a short autobiography.

  3. Fairfield Documents: Documents re sterilisation in the Third Reich

    This collection of correspondence and personal papers of Letitia Fairfield, a prominent Catholic doctor and lawyer, deal in the main with subject of compulsory sterilisation, in particular in relation to the Nazi eugenics policy; and to the views of the Catholic Church on the subject.

  4. Hirsch family documents

    The papers in this collection document aspects of the life of Jonni Hirsch a Jewish Mischling, from Kiel, Schleswig-Hollstein, and of certain members on the Jewish side of his family. The papers are evidence of the way in which the lives of Jews in a German city became ever more difficult as a consequence of growing antisemitism. This is demonstrated in subtle ways by, for example, the copies of Abraham Hirsch's 19th century war record c1935 (-/4); the letters from shops and cafes requesting Jonni Hirsch not to frequent them because the customers do not like it (-/5, -/7, -/15); and the per...

  5. Lodz ghetto: various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of facsimile documentation from the Lodz ghetto comprises at least two separate deposits and sheds light on the controversial role of the chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Rumkowski. One of the documents in this collection is a fragment of a calendar covering part of the year 1942. The front bears an image of Rumkowski with the ghetto in the background and the month of January opens with the slogans 'work', 'bread', 'care of the sick', protection for the children', 'peace ...

  6. Eyewitness testimony collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not testimonies per se but contemporary documents which were donated and later subsumed into this collection. These latter have nonetheless been catalogued and indexed in the same way as the testimonies.

  7. Max and Edith Greenwood: family papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Max and Edith Greenwood, former Jewish refugees from Germany. Max Greenwood was one of the first people who fled Germany in 1933 after his medical licence was withdrawn.Family papers including Max Greenwood's qualifications and medical thesis, probate, last will, death certificate and papers relating to his restitution claim; correspondence and papers relating to the estates of Alfred Heidenheimer, Max Greenwood and Rosa Hanauer; James Greenwood's school reports and ...

  8. Tony Berger collection

    This collection comprises the personal correspondence received by Tony Berger, a Jewish refugee from Duisburg who was the only one of her siblings to emigrate to England on a domestic visa. Despite her efforts to help her family leave the country, they did not manage to obtain the required documentation in time.Family letters of Tony Berger, mainly from her mother, siblings and grandparents, document her family's efforts and hopes for emigration with the help of Tony Berger's new contacts in England as well as Tony Berger's life in London as a refugee employed as a domestic maid. Also inclu...

  9. Ilse Sheldon: family correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains letters sent to Oskar Bart by his mother Josefine Bart-Eigner in Prague as well as a transcript of an interview with Ilse Sheldon (Josefine Bart-Eigner's daughter). Oscar had emigrated with his wife Erna and their daughter Eva to London in 1938 to escape Jewish persecutions. His sister Ilse emigrated to Palestine whilst their mother stayed behind in Prague and was later deported.

  10. Hans Schmoller: Family papers

    This collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of Hans Schmoller.Papers containing correspondence from Hans Peter Schmoller to his parents, Hans Israel and Marie Schmoller (1690/1) and other family members and friends, ranging from the time of his studies in London in the early 1930s to his emigration to Morija, Basutoland (now Lesotho) in 1938 and subsequent internment in Ganspan camp in 1939; detailed accounts by his parents of the persecutions and worsening conditions for Jews in Nazi Germany particularly after the November pogroms; and his parents' incarceration at Ther...

  11. Ruth Ucko: personal papers

    This collection comprises the personal papers and correspondence of Ruth Ucko, a German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain. The bulk of Ruth's correspondence comes from her birth mother, Frieda Wolzendorff née Krzesny, mostly after she settled in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In addition there are other letters from the Krzesny family who had also escaped to either South or North America.

  12. Hans Litten: Correspondence

    This microfilm collection of correspondence of Irmgard Litten contains copy letters to her son whilst in concentration camps Lichtenburg and Dachau; copy correspondence to various authorities including Hitler, Hess and Göring asking for clemency; and some original letters from Hans Litten and various authorities. Most of it is typescript.

  13. Correspondence and papers regarding Georg August Welz

    This collection of correspondence relates to a letter which Elizabeth Castonier had published in the Süddeutscher Zeitung in August 1958, alleging the culpability of Professor Georg August Weltz, then Professor of X-Ray Physiology at the university of Munich, in war crimes, specifically medical experiments on prisoners to test how their bodies react to extremely cold temperatures. The collection includes a copy of an affidavit by Weltz, dated 1946. 

  14. Ruth Sommerfeld: papers relating to Werner Somsohn's publication

    This collection contains press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera').Press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera'). Also included are speeches held at the honorary citizen awards ceremony for Simsohn in 1998, and draft extract from his publication regarding the Jewish families from Gera bearing the name Wernik.German

  15. Switzerland and Jewish refugees: Reports by JUNA and other material

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material on the fate of Jews and Switzerland during the Nazi era, comprises several deposits, the first three of which share the same provenance, the other two being unrelated. Parts of this archive were used to create the three dossiers in this collection.The three dossiers, all produced in 1955, and apparently emanating from the same source, have been produced in the same format. Namely, an introductory essay on a topic punctuated by references to related transcript documents (Be...

  16. Peter Johnson: Personal papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of Peter Johnson's personal papers documents his life up until the immediate post-war period. It includes school reports, family correspondence, documents re naturalisation, papers relating to his service in military intelligence, and papers relating to the former Jewish population in Hildesheim, where he was stationed at the end of the war. Also deposited by Peter Johnson, the bulk of which collection relates to the activities of the refugee social club 'Hyphen', of which he was one of the foun...

  17. Account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience

    Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in BerlinGerman 30 pages 

  18. Raphael Lemkin papers

    This collection of Raphael Lemkin's papers documents his intense interest in the subject of genocide. The originals are held at the New York Public Library, from which the text of the following catalogue was obtained. The papers largely document Lemkin's intense interest in the subject of genocide. With the exception of a draft of his autobiography, Unofficial Man, the collection contains very little personal material. The correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, with public officials, newspapers, academics, and religious groups. It relates to Lemkin's struggle for support for the rati...

  19. Georg Fuchs: family correspondence

    Family papers including letters between George Fuchs and his girlfriend Eva Hellmann (1929-1944), family photographs, correspondence regarding the fate of cousin Franz Dietrich Schweizer, official certificate of the deportation of Georg Fuchs's mother, Georg Fuch's brief biographical account, copy press cutting regarding the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk (1986), as well as personal documents such as birth certificate, certificates of qualifications, testimonials of employment, soldier's service and pay book, Czech World War II medal, Czech passport, certificate of release from Czech na...

  20. Kulturbund Deutscher Juden: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.I: original correspondence between the Polizeipräsident of Berlin and the KBDJ concerning all the activities of the organisation, eg. Theatrical performances, engagement of the actors, venues etc, 1933-1935R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\29 Frames 392-632II: Forbidden Jewish texts including essays, lectures, poems, play scripts, short stories, anecdotes etcR:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\29 Frames 633-1203; R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\30 Frames 1-187III: G...