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  1. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    This large series of correspondence, traditionally referred to as the 'Pre 1963 Correspondence', broadly covers the period from the immediate aftermath of World War Two to just after Alfred Wiener's death. It covers a vast array of subject matter and contains 1600 correspondents including politicians, historians, theologians, resistance fighters, Holocaust survivors, civil servants and private researchers. Some of the more widely covered themes include Christian-Jewish relations; historiography; eyewitness testimony; restitution claims; postwar antisemitism

  2. Renate Collins collection

    Family papers belonging to Renate Collins. Includes correspondence from Renate’s mother Hilde, material documenting Renate’s move to England and ultimate adoption, and later material showing Renate’s family tree and the fates of family members under the Nazis.

  6. Beatrice Rozenberg collection

    This collection is comprised of 15 paintings of Holocaust victims as well as two boxes of material that are currently uncatalogued.The artist Beatrice Rozenberg (b.1913-d.1995) painted under the pseudonym Benedict Davies for some time. She studied at The Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in 1935, 1939, 1941 and 1946.

  8. Marion Koebner collection

    Collection comprised of documents and photographs belonging to the Koebner family, including correspondence, personal documents, school reports and poetry.

  9. Correggio Jewish community: Archives

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  10. Geoffrey Marx collection

    The collection consists of material belonging to the Marx and Eversfield families, the vast majority from Marika Szücs/ Lӧw-Beer/ Eversfield/ Rotter. Includes a large amount of wartime and post-war correspondence between England and Hungary (including letter informing Marika of her mother’s death at Auschwitz), personal and family papers documenting immigration, and collection of Marika’s art, fashion and advertising work.

  11. Philipp Manes Collection

    This is a collection of original papers of Philipp Manes, former fur trader, resident of Berlin and later inmate of Terezin, from where he was sent to his death at Auschwitz with his wife in 1944.

  14. Berta Wallis née Matzer collection

    Postcard from Jolan Nagy Wallis and delivery dockets to Jolan Nagy Wallis in Lodz 

  15. Braunschweig Jewish community: Archives

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  17. Jack Scott collection

    The collection consists of the personal and family paper of Jakob Schloss/ Jack Scott, including wartime documentation of his own war service and his father’s deportation from France, and later documentation of memorials and tributes to Baruch Schloss and Jack’s commando. It also includes photographs of family members and memorial sites.

  18. Janina Szereszewska collection

    This collection contains identity documents, correspondence, affidavits and restitution claim material

  19. William Kaczynski collection

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital content.Material collected by William Kaczynski, which served as the basis for A Postal History of Refugees from the Nazis, published as Fleeing From the Führer (the History Press, 2011). Includes letter covers, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs, alongside some contextual material from Kaczynski’s collection process and exhibition. Includes documents relating to internment camps, concentration camps, displaced person camps, undercover mail and addresses, refugee and relief organisations, as well as significant ev...

  20. Dziunia Markus collection

    The collection documents the life of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor Dziunia Markus neé Wortmann and partly her family.The bulk of the collection consists of photographic material. Pre-war images show the life of a well to do assimilated Jewish family in Poland. Depicted are several Wortmann family members including Dziunia’s parents and later Holocaust victims Maria neé Birenbaum and Maksymilian Wortman. Post war images allow insights into Dziunia’s life in England and the trips she took to various places around the world.The documents in the collection focus on post war period and includ...