The Alfred Wiener documents collection

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933305378904146
• English
• 1933-1934
• 1 electronic resource (23 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is a collection of letters and petitions written in 1933 and 1934 by the head of the Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten (Association of Jewish War Veterans), Dr. Leo Löwenstein, to Adolf Hitler, Dr. Goebbels, president Hindenburg, Dr. Lammers and the American embassy, and others, addressing the increased anti-Semitism and restrictions for Jews living in Germany. Some letters protest the treatment, others are trying to gain exemptions for Jewish veterans. The letter to Hindenburg protests the exemption of Jews from serving in the German army. A note by R. v. Stutterheim about his me...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933306179004146
• English
• 1920
• 1 electronic resource (162 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file consists of 294 cards listing the names of exiled scholars in alphabetical order and one duplicate. Each card lists the date of birth, profession and biographical information as well as the area of expertise. Some entries include a third copy with updates. Most professions are in the humanities.

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309168104146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (327 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is an unpublished account by Werner Bukofzer about his illegal immigration to Palestine from Germany via the Danube and then on board of the "Hilda" to Haifa. He describes the hardships on board of the ship during an especially harsh winter 39/40, the uncertainty, and the dangers through onboard fire, storms and imminent shipwrecking. After days in the port of Haifa the passengers are taken prisoners by the British and interned in the Atlit camp. What follows is the monotony of prison life. Individual characters and events are described through anecdotes. After Purim 1940 a hungers...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309176304146
• English
• 1955
• 1 electronic resource (37 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The file is the final part of the biography of Henry Hellmann, a social democrat from Berlin. He continues his story with the events around the fire in the Reichstag and the trial, the following roundup of Socialist in the Vorwärts offices by the SA and helping to send property of the Social democrat leadership abroad. Due to his activities in the underground organisation "Neu Beginnen" he has to go into hiding. He manages to flee to Prague where he learned Czech and worked as a translator. After the occupation by the Germans he was able to secure an English visa and emigrated to England. A...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309176404146
• English
• 1955
• 1 electronic resource (53 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The file is the second part of the biography of Henry Hellman, a social democrat, from Berlin. He continues to talk about his father, who became more and more depressed, one reason being the rising antisemitism, and who hanged himself in a hotel room. He reminisces about the writer Woehrle including background and biographical anecdotes. After his father’s death he is offered a “volunteer” position in the parliamentary office of the Social Democrats in the Reichstag and urged to finish his studies. He spent a lot of time in artist coffee houses of Berlin like Romainsches café, Petersurger c...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309176504146
• English
• 1955
• 1 electronic resource (60 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The file is the first part of the biography of Henry Hellmann, a social democrat, from Berlin. He grew up in Breslau in a social democratic household with a Jewish father and Christian mother. Both parents left their respective faith before he was born. During the first World War the family moved to Berlin. He witnessed the Spartacus uprising and the Kapp-Putsch while he went to High school in Lichterfelde, Berlin and later to a boarding school in Wynecken called Wickersdorf. He started to work at the socialist publishing house in Breslau. After starting an affair with a free spirit and fai...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309176704146
• English
• 1946
• 1 electronic resource (52 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The account of Elsa Meyring – The life of a German non-Arian in the 20th century - starts with her childhood in Stettin from 1883 to 1903 where she was raised in a strict, but warm and cultured middle class family. In 1904 she married a friend of her father who was much older than her and adored her. After a short time of living a careless life with her loving husband she realized that she needed to engage in social work and over time became the Head of the Woman’s association in Stettin, organized the National Women’s Service during the First World War and became the first woman elected to...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309177804146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (53 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is the third part of Curt Joseph’s testimony “No Homesickness”, recounting the difficulties he faced to emigrate from Nazi Germany through Holland to England. It was very hard to create a new livelihood in a new country without any means and support. Upon the outbreak of WW II he was interned at Huyton and the Isle of Man.

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309178004146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (40 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is the second part of Curt Joseph’s testimony “No Homesickness”, recounting his youth and adult life in Germany, harassment and loss of livelihood through the Nazis and emigration to Great Britain. He recounts the events of the Kristallnacht and his arrest and transfer to Sachsenhausen. In the camp he is instructed by his foreman, a political prisoner, how to survive the “green” criminal foremen and the S.S. he states that the Jehova’s Witnesses were treated worse than the Jews. Eventually he was released from Sachsenhausen and told to start the process of emigration, which was ext...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309178104146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (60 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

Auto-biography of Curt Joseph starting with his father who grew up in the 19th century telling him that there was a short period of antisemitism in Germany, when it was hard to find a job as a pharmaceutical chemist. Later on anti-Semitism was instigated by a rather small group of the educated classes and felt mainly in the civil service, army, navy and clubs of various types. He mentions two characteristic qualities of Jews that evolved while living in the diaspora: To be forced to work harder than Christians, and to show more understanding for the victims of persecution. Until he was 9 ye...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933309178204146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (65 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

Ein Bekehrungsversuch (A conversion attempt) Testimony by Hans Jaeger - how a former pupil, Helmuth Lucke from Frankfurt/Main, tried to recruit him to the NSDAP in 1929 with the help of Hans Beckerle, head of the national socialist student association (in 1933 he became Police president of Frankfurt, later he joined the Diplomatic corps and was sent to Bulgaria). He describes Beckerle as very intelligent, and that he was compared to other members of the SA as cultured and well mannered. It becomes a lively discussion about communism, socialism and capitalism, the treaty of Versailles, etc. ...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933314376804146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (40 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The paper "100 years before: Jewish riots in Hamburg 1819, 1830, 1835" is an overview of riots against Jews in Hamburg in the years 1819, 1830 and 1835. They started with groups of youngsters from the middleclass throwing out Jews from cafes and dance venues. The unrest continued on the streets and the police intervened. The rioters smashed windows in Jewish neighborhoods and harassed them. Only after the senate sent in troops was the order restored and Jews were warned “not to provoke”. In the introduction we get an overview of Jewish life in the 18th and early 19th century, which was base...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933314376904146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (58 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The paper "100 years before: Jewish riots in Hamburg 1819, 1830, 1835" is an overview of riots against Jews in Hamburg in the years 1819, 1830 and 1835. They started with groups of youngsters from the middleclass throwing out Jews from cafes and dance venues. The unrest continued on the streets and the police intervened. The rioters smashed windows in Jewish neighborhoods and harassed them. Only after the senate sent in troops was the order restored and Jews were warned “not to provoke”. In the introduction we get an overview of Jewish life in the 18th and early 19th century, which was base...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933315778804146
• English
• 1962
• 1 electronic resource (24 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The file is the official press bulletin by the government of Israel on the events during and after the execution of Adolf Eichmann on May 31st, 1962. It also includes a telex by Arye Wallenstein of Reuters describing in further detail the execution of Eichmann he witnessed in person. This account was the basis for the article he wrote for Reuters and which was reprinted in various newspapers around the world.

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933315778904146
• English
• 1962
• 1 electronic resource (26 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The file is an "as it happened" telex by Arye Wallenstein, reporter, to Reuters London from Jerusalem, about the Israeli Supreme Court delivering judgement on Adolf Eichmann's appeal against his conviction and death sentence. It quotes reactions from Judges, the content of the verdict and the reaction of the defense and the defendant. The second telex refers to Israel's president rejecting Eichmann's plea for reprieve and the offical announcement. The third telex gives a summary of the execution, people present, physical examination and cremation.

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933315779004146
• English
• 1962
• 1 electronic resource (24 pages)
• Updated 2 years ago

The file is a collection of newspaper clippings based on the original report to Reuters, London, of the eyewitness account by Arye Wallenstein, one of only two foreign based reporters present at Adolf Eichmann’s execution. The newspapers include Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, Asahi Evening News, The Boston Globe, China Mail, Daily herald, Daily Mirror, El Mundo, France-Soir, Mainichi, Malayan Times, Nanyang Siang Pau, Paese Ser, The Evening News, The Jewish Chronicle and the Yorkshire Evening Post during June 1st to June 8th, 1962. The article recounts the last moments of Adolf Eichmann befor...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933316572504146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (70 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is the final part of the memoirs of Dr. Max Wolff of London. He continues to write about his research of the the law and a summary of his publications when he was still in Germany, e.g. about the abolishing of the oath when hearing witnesses in court. He also recounts that he had to swear an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler in order to continue being a notary. Nevertheless, he was forbidden to practice shortly after that. He describes the effect the inflation in the 20s had on the population (especially pensioners who lost everything) and the possible reasons for the inflation.

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933316572604146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (60 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is the fourth part of the biography of Dr. Max Wolff of London. He continues with a comparison of the English and German educational system. He also dwells on his decision to study law. He goes on to explain the Influences that shaped European law: 1. Roman law (European culture is based on three peoples – Jews transcendent, Greek – constructive, Roman – deductive (logical)). 2. Feudalism's (fides-loyalty) influence in Europe. 3. Property law which was developed by Germans, whereas trade law was adapted from Italian law. He explains that students of law went to Bologna to study Rom...

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933316572704146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (60 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is the third part of the memoirs of Dr. Max Wolff of London. Dr. Wolff continues to write about Judaism and his life in emigration in London. He gives an overview of English democracy and Parliamentarism and its peculiarities. He writes about his difficulty learning a foreign language in advanced age due to his hearing disability and lack of social contacts among English speakers. He also describes the English school system and compares it to the German one.

• Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 9933316572804146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (60 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file is the second part of the handwritten memoirs of Dr. Max Wolff of Breslau. Dr. Wolff continues his life story with insights into his family life, the Jewish community of Breslau and the Christian Germans he has contact with. He tries to come to terms with his feelings about Germans and Germany where he once was part of its society, but now after all that happened has no emotions left. He also writes extensively about his views on Judaism and Anti-Semitism.