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  1. Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad: reports on conditions of Jews and DPs in Europe

    Collection of reports from Jewish relief workers on the conditions of Jews and other displaced persons at the end of the Second World War. In addition to the reports there are two letters, covering notes for the reports when they were sent to other interested parties in 1946.

  2. Otto Bendix: letter to wife

    This original farewell note (with transcription) documents the last moments of Otto Bendix' life in Berlin prior to deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942.

  3. Copy documents re Monik Rosenbaum, Theresienstadt survivor

    Copy documents regarding Monik Rosenbaum, a survivor from Theresienstadt, who was traced by his brother to Gateshead.

  4. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: deportation order

    This order from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland to Frau D. S. Allfeld, partner in a mixed marriage, to go on a work detail out of the city (Frankfurt a. M.) is evidence of the continuation of this organisation's activities (albeit in changed and much reduced form).After June 1943, when most of Germany's Jews had been deported to concentration/ death camps. The following features are of particular interest. The date, 8 February 1945, seems very late and suggests that the Nazis must have been desperate to recruit workers at this time. The document appears to be a contemporary c...

  7. Regent's Park School: copy documentation

    Copy documentation regarding Regent's Park School, London NW3.

  8. Copy papers concerning Karl Wittig

    This collection of copy papers documents the experiences of Karl Wittig in Germany during the Nazi era and in the immediate postwar years. The papers include sworn statements by various witnesses (including Pastor Martin Niemöller) who testify to his incarceration in various concentration camps.

  9. Rita Hauser: school report, Isle of Man internment camp

    This is an original school report of Rita Hauser, interned on the Isle of Man at Port St Mary and attending 'Y' Camp school.

  10. Isaac Coutinho: copy testament

    This collection consists of the copy testament of Isaac Couthino, dated 1897, Hamburg, and authenticated on 17 November 1964. It also contains a copy newspaper article reporting on the murder of Mrs Carmen Blanck-Sichel.

  11. Central British Fund for German Jewry: list of contributers

    This collection comprises lists of contributors to the Central British Fund for German Jewry and an apparently post-war appeal leaflet.

  12. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  13. Hutchinson internment camp, Isle of Man: copy documents

    The originals of this copy documentation deposited by a former inmate of Hutchinson internment camp, Isle of Man, appear to have been part of an exhibition depicting various aspects of the cultural and social life of the inmates.

  14. Hay internment camp, New South Wales, Australia: copy camp magazine

    This collection appears to consist of two separate deposits, the provenance of which is not known. The first item is a copy of the Camp 7 Hay magazine Boomerang. The second is a woodcut image of the camp, dated 1940-1.

  15. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  16. Oppenheim: copy family documents

    This collection of copy family documents sheds some light on the fate of the Oppenheim family from Kassel.

  17. Otto Ernst Remer: copy report

    Copy manuscript account apparently by Major General Otto Ernst Remer about his activities on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. The document is dated 2 April 1946. It is possible that the account was written whilst Remer was in custody during the period of de-nazification after the war. A note states that the first two pages were missing and that these had been supplied at a later date by a different depositor (G. Fleming).

  18. Irmgard Smurka: copy papers

    These copy personal papers of Irmgard Smurka (née Klinger) document the life of a German Jewish resident of Berlin who emigrated to Great Britain after the war. The papers include school certificates; birth, marriage and death certificates; job references, etc. Of particular interest is an affidavit of 1961 submitted by Irmgard Smurka in support of a claim for compensation, in which she details the victimisation she endured during the nazi era (-/14). In addition there are manuscript (-/17) and typescript (-/18) accounts of her experiences written in German for Yad Vashem. The above items p...

  19. Bing family: papers

    This collection comprises four separate deposits of material regarding different members of the same family.The first deposit (867/1) consists of copies of 3 letters written by a woman in a collection centre (Sammlunglager) in Berlin in June 1943. She was subsequently deported to Auschwitz where she almost certainly died. The letters are significant because they offer a rare insight into conditions in such an establishment and document the growing level of despair amongst those who were transported. In the final letter she seems certain of her fate- that theirs will be the last “Polentransp...

  20. Klara Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    Copy correspondence from a German Jewish woman inmate of a number of French concentration camps. Klara Rosenzweig, the author of the correspondence, writes to her children and husband, who reside in Scotland, describing conditions in the camps etc.