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

  1. Löw family papers

    This collection comprises a copy typescript history of the Löw family written by Alfred Löw in 1933 and a copy manuscript mid 18th century list of privileged and non-privileged Jews.

  2. Adolf Wald: Bar Mitzwah album

    The album contains mostly letters, cards and telegrams congratulating the subject on reaching his Bar Mitzwah

  4. BBC German Service: 'Letter Box' programme transcripts

    This collection of transcripts of the BBC German Service 'Letter Box' programme documents the opinions of ordinary Germans, Austrians and Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Subjects include the question of guilt; de-nazification; living conitions; life under occupation; the experiences of returning Jews.

  6. Max Sanders: personal papers

    This collection consists of mostly original personal papers of Max Sander, a German Jew, who apparently came to Great Britain in 1939 and, according to an unidentified note died, in London in 1979. Little more is known about the subject beyond the following few details gleaned from the papers themselves.

  7. Fernbach family documents

    A short play written to celebrate the marriage of Eugen and Ida Fernbach forms the beginning of this history of the family which Eugen Fernbach continued to write until shortly before his death in 1936. A few additional entries by Hans Rainer Fernbach, his grandson, cover some events in later years. At the end of the chronicle there is the life story of his son, Wolfgang, a few newspaper cuttings and an itinerary of all voyages undertaken by Eugen and Ida Fernbach. A few family documents complete the collection. The chronicle is a quite detailed description of a well-to-do, though not rel...

  8. Papers of Heinz Werner Löwenstein

    The collection comprises two separate deposits from the family Löwenstein in 1988. The first (643/1/1) consists of correspondence between Heinz Werner Löwenstein and his parents, 1935-1940. The letters provide an interesting account of the difficulties encountered by a young immigrant trying to make his way in South Africa as well as of the life led by Jewish people in pre-war Berlin. For obvious reasons the letters make hardly any reference to the political situation and the real hardships and dangers of the parents' lives are hidden. The second deposit consists of correspondence from Hein...

  11. Israel Feldhuhn collection

    Israel Feldhuhn collection 

  12. Letter seeking advice re behaviour towards Jews

    This is a letter with response requesting advice on how to conduct oneself with a Jew written by a person unknown- a partially legible annotation on the response suggests it might have been written by someone called G. J. Bloch. the same note seems to date the letter 8 November 1931. It is addressed to the leadership of the 'N.D.A.P', Muenchen Braunes Haus. The response is from Uschla, R. L.

  13. List of Foreign Office officials of mixed Jewish descent

    List of officials in the higher grades of the German foreign office of mixed Jewish descent divided into permanent, temporary and retired officials3 pages. Author unknown 

  14. Various copy papers re 'The Dunera' refugee transport ship to Australia

    These various copy papers document the experiences of the German and Austrian internees transported to Australia on the 'Dunera' in 1940 and their subsequent detention in camps in Australia. The collection consists of copy personal and official papers relating to time spent at the camp; copy official papers relating to the passage of the 'Dunera' and the allegations of ill treatment on board and copy newspaper cuttings reporting the same. In addition there is contemporary copy correpondence of Herbert Goldsmith relating to the 'Dunera' affair.

  15. Ilse Kaiser: correspondence re Erich Kaiser

    The copy correspondence in this collection between Ilse Kaiser and the publishers K. G. Saur Verlag concerns the inclusion of a biographical entry for Erich Kaiser, Ilse's brother, a German emigré journalist.

  16. Sandberg family: copy correspondence

    This collection of copy correspondence with transcript consists of letters written by Jewish parents to their daughter in the 1930s and just prior to the daughter's emigration to Great Britain on the Kindertransport.

  17. Ludwig Stauss' business: Copy correspondence re aryanisation

    The letters are stamped with a [Berlin?] Document Center Reference. In addition they bear the manuscript reference ‘BB 1955'.

  18. Harry Jarvis: family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz), Bukovina, Ukraine. It is a relatively rare example of material from the German speaking Jewish community of this region and, as such, is valuable evidence of a now effectively extinct era. Item 1617/14 is an accrual which was added on 3.2.2011.

  19. Fritz Weisskopf collection

    Correspondence and photograph

  20. Anti-Nazi activities worldwide: leaflets and circulars

    The collection consists of leaflets and circulars of anti-nazi organizations in various countries across the world. Much of the material is annotated with the reference 112F, probably an early Wiener Library subject reference code, which suggests that the material was deposited shortly after it was produced.