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  1. Dresner family: copy papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Dresner family, a Jewish family from Leipzig, and includes official documentation from Theresienstadt, pre-war Nazi and post-war Czech bureacrats including a letter from the Chief of Police, Leipzig, banishing Elias Dresner and family from the city on pain of imprisonment. In addition a 5 page typescript letter from Irmgard Lichtenstein, dated 24 November 1947,gives information on the fate of family members. A copy of the latter is also at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

  2. Transcript of interview with Albert Speer

    The interview of which this document is a transcript was conducted over several days in October 1979 by the depositor at the home of Albert Speer in Heidelberg, Germany.It covers Speer's involvement with the Nazi Party; his relationship with Hitler and other senior Nazis; his views on Nazi war crimes including his own involvement; anti-Semitism and prison life at Spandau.

  3. Selig Hecht: correspondence

    This collection consists of 2 letters written by Selig Hecht, a German born American scientist, on a visit to Europe. The first, a letter to a colleague back home, outlines the problems facing Jewish academics in Nazi Germany, and introduces the second which is a much more detailed picture of the privations suffered by Jewish academics and also the indifference of the non-Jewish population, and the culmination of a latent antisemitism in the profession that had long pre-dated the Nazi seizure of power. The latter is addressed to Alfred Cohen. Others mentioned include Willstaetter, Fajans, a...

  4. International Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia

    This collection consists of a variety of papers all stamped with the organisation's name: "The International Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia". Subjects include restitution, B'nai B'rith, preservation of memorial scrolls, life for Jews in post war Czechoslovakia, amongst others.

  6. Reports on German Jewish emigration to South America

    This collection consists of reports on the situation of German Jewish immigrants to Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina in the 1930s

  7. Adolf Frankl: papers re art exhibition

    This collection of papers relating to an art exhibition of Adolf Frankl's works consists of correspondence, opening addresses, newspaper reviews and catalogues.

  8. Eva Manes: letter from a friend

    This typscript letter addressed to Eva Manes from an unidentified friend of the family describes what happened to Eva's parents and other friends and acquaintances after her departure from Berlin before the war. The author also describes his own experiences after the war in Berlin.

  10. Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches by a number of leading European political figures and Professor Yehuda Bauer of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, on the occasion of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust.

  11. Papers re reminiscences of Jewish school girl

    This collection of correspondence and papers relates to the experience of a former Jewish pupil of a secondary school in Stade, Lower Saxony. The papers relate to 3 separate projects: an invitation by the city of Stade to Dinah Ruth Curtis, the former school pupil, along with all other surviving Jewish former residents of the city for a special reunion; a request by a historian at the city archives for biographical information relating to her persecution by the Nazis; and a request by her former school to contribute material towards a an exhibition on the subject of girls' education in Stad...

  12. Henni Lesley: copy family documents

    Little is known about the subject of this collection, save that which can be gleaned from the papers themselves. It appears that Henni Lesley, formerly Lewin, formerly a Jewish resident of Berlin, was at one time imprisoned at Lichtenburg Concentration Camp (1541/1); that she probably emigrated to Great Britain shortly after her release(circa 1938/9); and that her parents were deported East in March 1943, never to be seen again (1541/4).

  13. Copy papers re Edith Stein

    This collection consists of correspondence and printed extracts relating to an aspect of the will of Edith Stein, aka St. Teresa Benedetta of the Cross, the Jewish born academic, convert to Catholicism.

  14. Walter Manes: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers of Walter Manes documents his life from youth to the immediate post-war years. In addition to the documentation, an unpublished autobiographical account (1548/1) puts the papers in context.

  15. Ernst Cohn-Wiener, Maurice Laserson: correspondence and papers

    This collection of correspondence documents the friendship between the art historian, Professor Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Dr. Maurice Laserson. It covers such subjects as Cohn-Wiener's travel experiences and the art treasures and traditions of various countries. It also documents his experience in India including comments on the situation of the indigenous Jewish population there (805/2/14). Much of the correspondence consists of mundane matters such as discussions about travel arrangements and comments on health- particularly during Cohn-Wiener's stay in India. Dr. Maurice Laserson also makes ...

  17. Eva Manes: correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence from friends of the Manes family in the immediate post war years. Much of it relates to the fate of family and friends and conditions in post war Germany.

  18. Ruth Dina Curtis: personal papers

    This collection contains copy correspondence of Ruth Dina Curtis' family members from the 1940s, an identity card for Herbert Cohn and a biographical account in English of Ruth Dina Curtis (nee Heideman) by her son.

  20. Ingeborg Samson: booklet of anti-nazi jokes

    This collection consists of a notebook containing hand-written, mostly ant-nazi jokes in Suetterlin script and a modern transcript of the same.