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Holding Institution: Wiener Holocaust Library

  1. Paul Plaut: correspondence

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThe collection is entirely non-political. Unintentionally it is, however, a vivid illustration of the 'brain drain' which hit Germany and Austria a few years later. A large number of contributors were amongst the best known emigrants. Some did not survive the Holocaust.The responses are arranged alphabetically by correspondent into folders, 647/1-25. A few of the responses which are not related to Plaut's book have been subsumed into the main alphabetical series. At folder 647/26 there are some unidentified let...

  2. International Tracing Service- Child search Branch: Papers re Lebensborn children etc

    This microfilm collection of documentation apparently emanating from the offices of the International Tracing Service deals in large part with children adopted by the Lebensborn programme.

  3. Hammerschlag and Stein families: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Istvan and Eva Stein, Hungarian Jews from Budapest who emigrated to Cairo in 1938 whilst some members of their family stayed behind and perished in the Holocaust. 

  4. Friedrich Ullstein: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence between Augustus ('Gus') and Bartholomew ('Bart') Ullstein and their parents whilst the boys were at Bradfield College discussing family matters and expressing political opinions. Correspondence between Augustus ('Gus') and Bartholomew ('Bart') Ullstein and their parents whilst the boys were at Bradfield College discussing family matters and expressing political opinions. Also included are press cuttings regarding the centenary of the death of Leopold Ullstein in 1999 and a photograph of Frederick Ullstein.

  5. Sudetenland Jews: reports

    All three reports deal with the position of Jews in Sudetenland but vary in their specific subject matter. the first (-/1) concentrates on the situation as it effects Jews in various Sudetenland towns and cities. The second (-/2) reviews conditions for Jews throughout the whole of Sudetenland under the headings of 'welfare', 'old people's homes', 'children's schooling' and 'emigration'.The third report (-/3) reviews the social, economic and legal situation of the Jews in Sudetenland and recommends action to address problems arising from the report.

  6. Third Reich: Personal accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection comprises two deposits whose relationship to each other is not known. The first consists of correspondence and reports concerning participants in two famous acts of protest during the Third Reich: the Rosenstrasse Protest in which the (mostly) Aryan partners of a specially segregated group of Jewish prisoners protested at their detention by the Nazis in a former welfare office for the Jewish community in Berlin, 1943; Das Sovjet-Paradies Aktion in which 500 Jews and Germans were arres...

  7. Cohn family papers

    This collection contains the business and personal papers of three generations of the Cohn family: Documents belonging to Joseph and Johanna Cohn's papers such as a publican licence, wills and title deeds. Business and personal papers of Heinrich (Heimann) Cohn, including contracts and ac-counts booklets relating to his companies, letters to his wife and mother, as well as a re-quest from his mother-in-law Hedwig Lesheim to allow Heinrich’s family to move to Berlin. Correspondence re restitution claims by Ella Cohn and Herbert Curtis.

  8. Renate Klapper: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Renate Klapper, a Jewish girl from Berlin who was sent to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to escape Nazi persecution whilst her family died at Auschwitz concentration camp.Personal papers including her school certificates (1684/1), wartime correspondence with her mother sent via the British Red Cross Message Bureau (1684/2), honorary membership certificate of the Royal College of Midwives (1684/3), two photocopies of her will (1684/4), two copies of her death certificate (1684/5), valuation documents of two properties in Ger...

  9. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  10. Johannes Kohl: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Johannes Kohl, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to the UK via Holland in 1939.Personal papers including his membership card of the Austrian Centre in London; an information guide for Jewish refugees in England and press cutting from the Kleine Volkszeitung (5 May 1938) regarding the execution of a Jewish criminal in Paris.

  11. Ruth Ibbitson (née Peschel) collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ruth Peschel, a Jewish girl from Breslau who emigrated on a Kindertransport to the UK in 1939.These comprise correspondence with her family including a letter from her brother in Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as documents, including: work reference, police clearance certificate, tax clearance certificate, police notice of departure, identity card for young persons admitted to the UK under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children and short life histories. There are digital copies of her passport and steamship...

  12. League of nations: papers re refugees

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documentation deals with the role of the League of Nations, in particular with regard to the problem of Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany, c1938-1939. The papers include minutes, agenda, reports and memoranda of the Refugees Committee of the League of Nations.Documentation on the role of the League of Nations Refugee Committee with particular regard to the fate of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany including the following.Memorandum re treatment of refugees in Great Britain,...

  13. Schulim Schatzberg: Personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Schulim Schatzberg, a Jewish dentist from Vienna who was forced to emigrate with his family to England in 1939 as he was persecuted for being Jewish.Personal papers of Schulim Schatzberg including papers relating to his military service in the First World War, qualifications and work references, marriage certificate, certificate of residence ('Heimatschein'), letter from the Office of the Reichsminister of the Interior imposing restrictions on him practising dentistry, copy of a letter sent from Dachau concentration camp, and photographs of Sc...

  14. Julian Lehmann: various press cuttings and articles

    This collection comprises miscellaneous press cuttings from German language newspapers dating from c1916 to the 1930s which can roughly be classified into those dealing with the life and work of contemporary Jewish personalities such as Freud, Einstein and Stefan Zweig, on the one hand and articles of a general Jewish interest on the other. In addition there are a number of draft typescript articles and notes on a variety of subjects ranging from obituary notices to articles describing the experiences of German Jewish immigrants to Great Britain during the Nazi era. They are either clearly ...

  15. Franziska Willer collection

    This collection contains original correspondence, personal memoir, compensation claim material, photographs and ephemera.Included in the digital files are the photographs (1950_3); some transcribed and translated correspondence of Hanne Willer and some contemporary research material documenting Franziska's efforts to extricate her non-aryan Christian children (1950_1)

  16. Eva Webb: personal papers

    Personal correspondence and autobiographical account of Eva Webb. Also included is correspondence relating to her war compensation claim, confirmation of the death of Heinrich Poper by Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association and letters from her father.

  17. Edgar Duchin: working papers re refugees from Nazi Europe

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection of papers relating to the fate of refugees from Nazi Europe was part of the working papers of Edgar Duchin (formerly Duchinsky), a solicitor who worked on behalf of refugees. A number of organisations dealing with the problems of refugees are represented. The papers at -/5 which document his activities viz representing the interests of individual refugees and his presence on a number of committees involved in similar work are testament to his commitment to the cause of refugees.

  18. Hannele Kuhn: family papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and...

  19. Edith Jayne: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Edith Jayne who emigrated with her Jewish parents from Vienna to Lisbon in 1938. Due to U.S. quota restrictions they had to wait another three years until they reached their intended destination of the United States.Personal papers including photographs, birth certificate and two biographical accounts (includes affidavit for pension purposes confirming and describing her background).

  20. Eric Strach: Personal papers