Buchenwald concentration camp

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1755
• angielski
• 1934-1995
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of the Guhrauer family from Braunschweig whose son Alexander Israel Guhrauer and his future wife Hella Sara Freudenthal fled Nazi-Germany in the 1930s. Included are Hella Guhrauer's German nationality certificate and certificate of registration for aliens (1755/2); Alexander Guhrauer's tax clearance certificate ('Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung') and application for the Ex-service (Non-British) Association (1755/1); letter from his father, Max Guhrauer, sent just before their departure for Theresienstadt concentration camp and his death certificat...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1509
• angielski
• 1996
• 1 file
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Correspondence, 1996, on The Buchenwald Poem , chiefly comprising numerous versions of the poem in English with covering letters and a letter from Gary Wollner (formerly Gerhardt Wollner), to whom the poem was dedicated, explaining how and why the poem was written.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 517
• angielski
• 1941-1945
• c350 frames
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection of miscellaneous documents includes: correspondence between the camp authorities and the Gestapo, Holland, regarding the belongings of dead Dutch prisoners, 1941-1942; statistics on exterminations, unnatural deaths and transports to death camps, April 1945; list of surviving prisoners, March 1945.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1511
• angielski
• 1939
• 1 file
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Copy of the release permit of Erich Marmorek, from Buchenwald concentration camp, 1939.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1856
• angielski
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at R...

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/54
• angielski
• 2 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence regarding the donation of a piece of tattooed human skin to The Wiener Library. According to the donor, who had obtained it by the minister of justice of Luxemburg in 1945, the piece was one of four items used by a Ms. Koch to produce a lampshade in Dachau concentration camp.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/71
• angielski
• 65 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence on a variety of subjects including arrangements for a visit to London; financial support for the Wiener Library regarding the research project ; antisemitic riots in Berlin; exchange of materials; membership list of the ; the death of Joachim Lipschitz in December 1961; fate of Hermann Pister, former Commandant of Buchenwald.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/137
• angielski
• 10 items
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence regarding Berman's restitution case as well as an information request on certain German individuals suspected of having participated in the killing of Jews from the Riga ghetto. Moreover, two accounts on Antisemitism in the GDR and the lack of information about Jews at the newly opened Buchenwald Memorial are contained.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/221
• angielski
• 2 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence regarding the reproduction of J. Burkarz’s eyewitness account on his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/231
• angielski
• 53 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence regarding historical subjects and political activities of the BVN. This includes among others the terms of access to German records in British archives, information about prominent Nazis and now West German officials Werner Naumann and Wilhelm Voss, the fate of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis liner, the conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom in 1938, and the controversial German-Jewish author and right-wing activist Josef Ginsburg (aka J. G. Burg).

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/263
• angielski
• 11 items
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence primarily regarding former concentration camp physicians and their postwar fates. This refers especially to former Buchenwald camp doctor Hans Eisele.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/329
• angielski
• 45 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

The correspondence, mainly with DIZ director and survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp Walter Bartel, centres on the exchange of information material. Besides, light is thrown on the Library’s contribution to the document edition (published 1960) as well as on two visits of Alfred Wiener to the DIZ. Contained are notes on the value of the DIZ collections as well as on the political bias of its periodical.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/332
• angielski
• 5 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Two information requests regarding inmates of Ravensbrück concentration camp, and on the book by former SOE agent and survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp Maurice Pertschuk aka Martin Perkins.

1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• 3000/9/1/335
• angielski
• 10 letters
• Aktualizacja: 2 lat(a) temu

Correspondence regarding exchange of materials and enquiry for research material on Buchenwald concentration camp.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 581
• angielski
• 1939-1942
• 1 file; 56 frames
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Report entitled 'Tiere bewachen Menschen' ('Animals keep watch over humans'), by Eric Walters, 1939; Reminiscences of life in the army entitled 'CPL Sunshine and other stories', by Eric Walters; Lists of possessions of Dachau prisoners, 23 Feb 1940-17 Sep 1942 (microfilm).

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1735
• angielski
• 1938-1970
• 1 folder
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of Hans Israel Abraham (later Harry Edward Anderson) who emigrated to England as a Jewish refugee upon release from Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Included are release certificate from Buchenwald concentration camp, German passport, international driving licence, Emergency Blood Transfusion Service card, soldier's service and pay book, work references and correspondence regarding the granting of his naturalisation certificate. Also included are photographs and the King's badge by the Ministry of Pensions.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 612
• angielski
• 1945
• 2 files
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Papers compiled by the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener, 1945, including original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau and papers on topics including political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany.

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 1205
• angielski
• 1936-1993
• 3 boxes
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Papers documenting the activities of Lt Col Julian Layton in assisting German Jewish refugees before the Second World War and internees during the war, 1936-1993, including official papers regarding the internment of refugees including HM Government printed orders mostly on aliens, internment and refugees, notably a report of a Parliamentary Delegation into conditions at Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after liberation, 1939-1945. Correspondence, memoranda and reports, 4 Oct 1939-9 Jul 1945, on matters relating to Jewish internees, chiefly those transported to Australia including:...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1701
• angielski
• 1934-2005
• 3 folders
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

This collection contains the personal papers of Leon Greenman, a British survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, documenting his experiences in the camps and post-war educational and political activities relating to the Holocaust. Included are papers concerning exhibitions and educational programmes relating to his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust organised by Westerbork Centre Museum and the Jewish Museum in London including responses to the exhibitions from school children (1701/1); the publication of a book on his experiences during the Holocaust (1701/2); pre...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL 572
• angielski
• 1933-1938
• 356 frames
• Aktualizacja: 6 lat(a) temu

Correspondence of Irmgard Litten, mother of the lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), regarding attempts to secure his release from prison, including a letter dated 11 February 1938 from Dachau, containing a list Hans Litten's personal effects.