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Country: United Kingdom
Holding Institution: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

  1. Notes re the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany

    Notes on the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany. The notes provide details on the fate of German banking and industry in the zones of the 4 occupying powers. Issues such as nationalisation (socialisation), decartellisation are discussed and reference is made to the fate of some of Nazi Germany's leading banks and companies. The sources for these notes are newspaper reports; notes taken at press conferences; and extracts from the constitutions of various Länder

  2. George Rigal: Reports re persecution of Jews in Russia

    Nothing is known about the circumstances surrounding the creation of these reports of Jewish persecution in the Soviet Union.

  3. Jüdische Volkspartei: appeal re leadership

    Appeal to the Jewish community council in Berlin concerning the leadership of the Jüdische Volkspartei.

  4. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda: correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of correspondence and papers of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda contains mostly Anti-semitic material.

  5. German revisionist leaflet

    Advertisement for German revisionist publications, written by Heinz Roth. Denies the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

  6. Jacob Samuel collection

    Collection of papers including an image of the testimonial in recognition of Jacob Samuel's service to the Jewish community in Stettin; letter of congratulations on his 25th wedding anniversary

  7. Reichskanzlei and Reichspräsident: Official correspondence

    These miscellaneous letters from various offices within the Nazi party hierarchy cover a variety of apparently unrelated, low level subjects. A fifth letter (possibly addressed to the depositor), from a British soldier, describing efforts to trace friends and family of the addressee, is written on paper, on the back of which is printed the name and address of Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbankpräsident.

  8. Academics persecuted by the Nazis: Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the fate of Jewish mathematicians and academics during the Nazi era.

  9. Hitler's foreign policy: two articles

    With each article is a covering letter from the author in London to the publisher (?), Max Sievers, in Brussels. The first covering letter makes mention of the fact that the author wishes to remain anonymous in the interests of the security of his parents, who were still living in Germany.

  10. The Tythrop Institute: copy papers re appeal for funds

    This collection of copy papers deals with the project of a group called the Langham Committee, whose object was to put to work several hundred German, Austrian and Czech Jewish refugees on the renovation of a delapidated manor House and grounds, Tythrop House. For a system of block guarantees a small band of young people came together calling themselves 'the Langham Committee' which has been able to ensure that some 200 working class men and girls are able to enter Great Britain.This copy appeal and account documents the committee's activities. 929/3 is a narrative account of its activities...

  11. Second Generation Conference, 1997: Miscellaneous material

    Second Generation Conference, 1997: Miscellaneous material 

  12. 'Third Reich' Bookmark

    The bookmark is printed with advertisements for Die deutsche Landfrau and Nationalsozialistische Landpost, two agricultural periodicals 

  13. Lussja Gruschlavskaja: DP Camp letter

    Lussja Gruschlavskaja: Copy translation of DP Camp letter, in which she describes being sent to a ghetto whilst living in Latvia then jumps to her experiences of a Displaced Persons Camp 

  15. Annie Jacob: Personal account

    Annie Jacob: personal account of the war years including  a period of incarceration at Gurs internment camp 

  16. Nelki family documents

    This small collection of copy documents relates to the life of Wolfgang Nelki. See also Unpublished Memoir 4036 for the Nelki family history, written by Wolfgang Nelki.

  17. Ferdinand Schwarz: papers re emigration to England

    These papers document, in part, the process of emigration from Germany to England in 1939. The original letters are accompanied by typescript transcriptions and translations.

  18. Arnold Rosé: copt documents re wartime musical activities

    The collection was deposited at the Wiener Library on the instruction of Richard Newman, co-author of Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz, Amadeus, USA, 2000. Alma Rosé was Arnold's daughter and became the conductor of the Auschwitz orchestra, where she died in 1944. Whilst the book obviously focuses on the experiences of Alma there is substantial biographical account of many members of the family including her father and his relation to the Mahler family.

  19. Photograph of portrait of Luise Hensel

    a mounted photograph of an original pencil drawing by W. Hensel, depicts Luise Hensel (the famous Catholic poet, d. 1876?), in 19th century garb

  20. Hirsch family documents

    The papers in this collection document aspects of the life of Jonni Hirsch a Jewish Mischling, from Kiel, Schleswig-Hollstein, and of certain members on the Jewish side of his family. The papers are evidence of the way in which the lives of Jews in a German city became ever more difficult as a consequence of growing antisemitism. This is demonstrated in subtle ways by, for example, the copies of Abraham Hirsch's 19th century war record c1935 (-/4); the letters from shops and cafes requesting Jonni Hirsch not to frequent them because the customers do not like it (-/5, -/7, -/15); and the per...