Auschwitz concentration camp

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1813
• angielski
• 1943
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains a diary entitled 'Exiled in one's own country - The journal of a Jewish family in hiding in occupied Holland' written by Andries Sternheim, writer and proponent of the Dutch Social-Democratic movement. The family were victims of the Holocaust. Included is an English translation and photocopy of the Dutch manuscript. Andries Sternheim wrote his journal between 26 May 1943 and 24 November 1943, whilst in hiding with his wife Gholina. The diary entries consist of reflections on political events and his hope for the defeat of Nazi Germany. They also show his dedication ...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1743
• angielski
• 1903-1945
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of Anne-Lisa Silberstein, a Jewish girl from Berlin who emigrated to Palestine in 1939. Included are certificate of inheritance and her father's last will, birth and marriage certificates of her parents, family register, photocopy of Anne-Lisa's Palestinian certificate of naturalisation (1743/1-) and some family correspondence (1743/2). Also included are two of Anne-Lisa's diaries (1743/3) in which she refers to the political situation and how it affected her life as a Jewish girl in Berlin. She discusses her fate and the meaning of life, and her...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1819
• angielski
• 1 box
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal correspondence of Arno Jacobius, a Jewish boy from Berlin who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, aged 14. His stepbrother Roman Gärtner and his uncle Leo Levy emigrated separately to England. Arno's mother, Johanna Jacobius, however perished at Auschwitz concentration camp. Included are letters from his mother, his stepbrother Roman Gärtner, his uncle Leo Levy from Kitchener camp in Kent, and other relatives and friends. The correspondence concerns Arno's new life in Scotland, the anticipated emigration of his mother and other relative...

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/288
• angielski
• 77 items
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

The correspondence - with CIA general secretary Hermann Langbein almost exclusively - covers various issues. This includes a CIA conference at the Auschwitz memorial site (1957); information and material requests on numerous perpetrators (among others C. Clauberg, A. Beckerle, A. Boger, A. Eichmann, E. Veesenmeyer, F. Rademacher, F. Benzler, A. Brunner and J. Mengele); postwar trials of perpetrators and Auschwitz related eyewitness accounts; mutual assistance on practical issues, for instance access to Library’s press surveys, finding an English translator for the memoirs of Rudolf Höss (1...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1817
• angielski
• 1939-1946
• 2 folders
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal correspondence of Edith Payne (née Guttmann). Edith was brought up in a Jewish family in Bratislava. She was studying at Caen when the Second World War broke out. She had to emigrate to England whilst her parents stayed in Bratislava. Her parents were later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where they perished. The letters were mainly sent to Edith in England from her parents in Slovakia. There are also some messages from relatives who had emigrated and some Red Cross messages dating from 1940 to 1942. The letters describe the lives of Edith's pa...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1199
• angielski
• 1956
• 9 pages
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Papers of Hinda Elsztajn, 1956, comprise an interview transcript of Hinda Elsztajn, former inmate at Auschwitz and victim of Dr. Carl Clauberg, one of the infamous physicians of Block 10 who experimented on prisoners.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1783
• angielski
• 1939-1991
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal correspondence and autobiographical account of Eva Webb, a former Jewish refugee girl who escaped from the Nazi regime with the help of the Kindertransport programme. In her autobiography she describes her early childhood life with an aunt in Czechoslovakia, her school years with her father and step-mother in Berlin in the 1930s and the increasingly difficult situation for Jews during the Nazi regime, her rescue by a family in Oxford, and the fate of her parents and grand-parents who perished in concentration camps and in the bombing raids in Berlin, re...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1267
• angielski
• 1939-1956
• 1 file
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Various eyewitness accounts of the Nazi era and the Holocaust include persecution of a Jewish woman in Berlin during the war; account of the fate of the lawyer, Hans Litten; account of the activities of war criminals in Auschwitz and situation for the Jews in Poland.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1848
• angielski
• 1938-2011
• 3 boxes
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecutions after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers survived in England and the United States respectively. Included are letters (with translations) from Freddie Knoller's parents, mainly addressed to his brother Erich, giving an insight into their f...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1760
• angielski
• 1990-2005
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains two articles relating to the Jewish refugee settlement farm in Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland. The siblings Gerald and Edith Jacobowitz arrived in the UK on a Kindertransport and spent the war years at the farm with other refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria. Their parents, aunts, uncles and several cousins were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. The article published in The Jewish Monthly (October 1990) was written by Gerald Jayson (formerly Jacobowitz). The second article in the Belfast Jewish Chronicle (September 2005) was written by another ref...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1809
• angielski
• 1916-2007
• 1 box
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of Gerda Mayer, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who came to England on a Kindertransport, whilst most of her family perished in the Holocaust. Included are letters from family and friends (photocopies); copy of 'The emigrants', a compilation of translated letters sent to Gerda from her parents in Czechoslovakia; Johanna Travnicek's application for compensation under the Vertriebenenzuwendungsgesetz 1994; photographs; family trees; correspondence mainly between Gerda Mayer and the family of her rescuer Trevor Chadwick regarding the nomination...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1753
• angielski
• 1911-1992
• 3 boxes
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

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. Included are Eva Stein's memoirs (1753/1/1); qualifications and marriage certificate of Istvan and Eva Stein; as well as correspondence from both sides of the family and friends. Particularly the letters from Ernö Hammerschlag (Eva's father) (1753/7) describe the situation for Jews in Hungary during World War II detailing the occupation of Budapest and the bombings, his struggle to ear...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1785
• angielski
• 1905-1988
• 2 boxes
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of Henry (Heinrich Jakubowicz) and Eva Hellmann. Hellmann was a member of the Social Democratic youth movement and SPD Reichstag parliamentary group. He had to flee Nazi-Germany due to his underground activities in 1935. He and his wife Eva Hellmann eventually emigrated from Prague to England in the late 1930s. Included are political articles and papers by Henry Hellmann; Hellmann's reminiscences of his parents, Michael and Anna Jacubowicz, and various autobiographical accounts of Henry and Eva Hellmann; correspondence with family and friends; ma...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1173
• angielski
• 1959
• 1 file
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Papers of the Internationale Auschwitz Komitee, 1959, comprising copies of statements from former prisoners of Auschwitz about the activities of the following former SS men who worked there: Wilhelm Boger, Franz Hofmann, Rudolph H?ss, Oswald Kaduk, Lachmann, Josef Mengele, Hans Stark, Eduard Wirth and Josef Klehr.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1281
• angielski
• 1959
• 1 file
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Papers of the Internationale Auschwitz Komitee (IAK), 1959, comprising short statements from former inmates at Auschwitz and correspondence between the IAK (including Hermann Langbein, secretary) and other organisations regarding the prosecution of perpetrators at Auschwitz, including Josef Mengele, Adolf Heinz Beckerle, Josef Klehr, Hermann Krumey, Adolf Eichmann and Paul K?mmel.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1761
• angielski
• 1941-1991
• 2 folders
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection consists of material relating to Eli Elkana (Georg Michelsohn), a Jewish poet and dentist from Dessau (now Saxony Anhalt), who was persecuted by the Nazis as early as 1932/33 for his opposing ideas and writings. He, his wife and his daughter managed to emigrate whilst other family members perished in the Holocaust. Included are Eli Elkana's manuscripts of 'Die Ritter von der weichen Birne' (1952) (1761/2) and 'Die Militär-Parade' (written as part of a letter to his daughter) (1761/1) as well as draft version of 'Eli Elkana - Dr Georg Michelsohn - Versuch einer Biographie' by...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1806
• angielski
• 1892-1961
• 1 box
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the papers of the Jacobys, a Jewish family from Berlin. Only one of the children, Henny Prax, managed to emigrate to England via Czechoslovakia. Her brother and parents were unable to leave the country in time and were later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where they perished. Included are correspondence with relatives and acquaintances abroad regarding affidavits and visas for the family's emigration; work references and CVs; Hand-Bernd's school reports; copies of medical certificates; Henny Prax's letters from family and friends; correspondence and photog...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1417
• angielski
• 2001
• 1 file
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Papers relating to Jews on Kos, Greece, 2001, comprising a list of the names of the Jews who were deported from the Greek island of Kos by the Nazis to Auschwitz, and a short history of the Jews of Kos.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1770
• angielski
• 1935-1996
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish family of Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Karlsruhe, who perished at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst their two daughters managed to flee Nazi-Germany in the 1930s. Included are copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1838
• angielski
• 1942-1943
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains Julius Essinger's correspondence (including translations) sent to his family whilst he was interned at Camp de Noe and Camp de Vernet d'Ariege in occupied France in 1942/1943. He was later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where he perished. Essinger writes about the conditions in the camps and the scarcity of food; his gratitude for clothing, food and money sent by relatives; the fate of other inmates; family matters; his fear of deportation; and hopes to be soon reunited with his family.