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  1. Norbert Zils: letter re Marianne Isaac

    This copy letter was given to the depositor by the recipient, Ruth Wolf. Ruth Wolf had earlier responded to a letter to a Birmingham newspaper from the same author, requesting information on the whereabouts of Marianne Isaac. It appears that the author, Norbert Zils, a history teacher from a small town in (West) Germany, was trying to put together an exhibition on the fate of the town's Jews. He was particularly concerned that the local people do not succeed in repressing knowledge of events which took place during the nazi era.

  2. Copy documents re 1936 Olympics

    Copy documents concerning preparations for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

  3. Jews in Berlin at the beginning of 1942: a report

    This typescript report on conditions in Berlin is the product of a conversation with a Jewish woman who left Berlin in the beginning of 1942 and arrived in London in October of that year.

  4. 'Memories of Douglas: Isle of Man' by Hugo Rosenstock

    This collection consists of two items: an original illustrated account of life as an internee of an internment camp on Douglas, isle of Man, 1940-1941 and an undated typescript family history by another family member. The first item comprises a series of individual sketches of camp life mostly in verse form, which have subsequently been bound together and foliated. A contents page, though no introduction completes the volume.

  5. Kurt Sabatsky: reports on leading Nazis and incidents of Jewish persecution

    This collection consists of typescript reports about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution. Many of the reports are written in the first person. In the last report (-/23), an account of the author's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen, the author reveals his identity - Kurt Sabatsky, formerly District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library. At -/13 is a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representative...

  6. Löw family papers

    This collection comprises a copy typescript history of the Löw family written by Alfred Löw in 1933 and a copy manuscript mid 18th century list of privileged and non-privileged Jews.

  7. Anti-German protest and prayer meetings, Great Britain: leaflets

    This collection consists of original leaflets advertising anti-German protest meetings and exhorting readers to boycott German products in the light of increasing discrimination against Jews in Germany. A number of British Jewish interest groups and political groups are represented. There is also a series of prayers on behalf of 'our bretheren in Germany' produced by the office of the Chief Rabbi.A note in the collection states that the non-religious material originally appeared in shop windows throughout the East End.All of the material is in English and the prayers are also in Hebrew.

  8. World Jewish Congress: various reports

    This collection consists of reports, communiqués and newsletter from the World Jewish Congress regarding the situation of Jews in Austria and Yugoslavia.

  9. Sandberg family: copy correspondence

    This collection of copy correspondence with transcript consists of letters written by Jewish parents to their daughter in the 1930s and just prior to the daughter's emigration to Great Britain on the Kindertransport.

  10. Werner Rüdenberg: correspondence

    The correspondence consists of bundles which contain carbon copy letters of Werner and Anni Rüdenberg arranged chronologically by date of authorship with original letters from the respective correspondents by date of receipt. This is a relatively large collection of correspondence, a much of which covers Germany during the Nazi period. Yet, according to a sample reading, it appears that very little, if any, of the content documents the experiences of this Jewish family under the Nazis. It seems to be concerned overwhelmingly with the affairs of the family and friends and the experiences of ...

  11. Sekretariat Warburg, 1938-1941: account of its activities by Robert Solnitz

    This typescript report gives an account of the activities of the Sekretariat Warburg, a charitable institution, whose objective was to assist Jews in Hamburg during the Nazi era and was funded by the Warburg banking family. The author is Robert Solnitz, former head of the organisation. It was written in Los Angeles in 1975.

  12. Copy German army documents re invasion of Great Britain

    Copy documents re the planned German invasion of Great Britain, 1940.

  13. Documents re antisemitism and ritual murder

    This collection of copy newspaper articles and letters focuses on a special issue of Der Stürmer on ritual murder, which caused concern in the British Jewish community.

  14. Protocols of the Elders of Zion: statement re their reliability

    This is a copy of an authenticated statement by Philip P Graves, former correspondent of the Times, which confirms that the content of a pamphlet entitled The Truth about the 'Protocols'- a Literary Forgery is true. The pamphlet comprises 3 articles written by the above author and published in The Times in August 1921, all of which assert that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery. It appears that the statement was made in relation to the trial in Berne regarding the reliability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The statement is addressed to a court in Berne, Switzerl...

  15. Nazi prosecution of Freemasons on Jersey: copy documents

    These copy papers document Nazi fascination for and persecution of Freemasonry on the island of Jersey, Channel Islands, in the immediate aftermath of the looting of Jersey's Masonic Temple in 1941.

  16. Maria Nermi-Egounoff, Hungarian opera singer: copy documents

    This miscellaneous collection of copy documentation consists of a cv of Maria Nermi- Egounoff, replete with reviews from various newspapers of her work; short biographies of British residents of Hungarian extraction who were apparently antisemitic [how they were known to the depositor is not made clear]; copy newspaper articles and scribbled biographical notes.

  17. Hermann Claudius: copy official papers

    This collection consists of copy official documents mostly declarations of income for the Reichsschriftumskammer of Hermann Claudius, poet and author.

  18. Birkenau: copy report re poison trace

    This collection comprises documents concerning the existence of poison traces in the debris taken from the crematorium at the death camp of Birkenau. It includes a request (887/1) from the Committee Investigating German War Crimes in Poland to the Institute of Toxicological Experts in Krakau to investigate and report on the extent to which various items salvaged from Birkenau contain traces of poison. the items include 25.5 kg of human hair; zinc metal sheets which covered the vent openings of the crematoria; mortar from the walls; and various metal objects. The report (887/2) concludes tha...

  19. Hermann Maas and Paul Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    This is a collection of post-war copy correspondence between Hermann Maas, a German protestant minister, and two siblings, Jewish 'Mischlinge' emigrés, whom Maas helped to save from the Nazis.

  20. Letter of unidentified Holocaust survivor

    Letter written by a former resident of Prague and inmate of Theresienstadt who emigrated to Canada.