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

  1. Joan Campion: correspondence re Gisi Fleischmann

    This collection of copy correspondence of Joan Campion relates to her portrayal of Gisi Fleischmann, who assisted with the rescue of Jews in nazi occupied Europe, and who features in Campion's book In the Lion's Mouth.

  2. Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence

    Olga Korbelova: Copy correspondence to the donor's aunt, Greta, in August 1942 just prior to deportation to Terezin; includes transcriptions, translations and a copy photograph

  4. Ernst Fraenkel: Academic correspondence

    Letters to Ernst Fraenkel on his article “Der Beitrag der deutschen Juden auf wirtschaftlichem Gebiet", Franz Böhm and Walter Dirks (eds.), Judentum: Schicksal, Wesen und Gegenwart (Franz Steiner Verlag: Wiesbaden, 1965), pp. 552-600.

  5. Neuengamme trials: Papers of J. C. Giffin

    The collection primarily consists of handwritten notes, presumably by Giffin, on the trials. These cover the testimony provided by the witnesses for the prosecution and the defence made by the accused. In addition there are several official British documents on the case, including the depositions. There are also some statements by the defendants’ lawyers, as well as German press cuttings on the case.

  6. Luzer Izbicki collection

    Copy documents regarding emigration

  7. Charlottenburg district court: copy notice of compulsory sale of Jewish property

    Charlottenburg district court: copy notice of compulsory sale of Jewish property.

  8. Freddie Edwards collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Frederick Edwards, formerly Fritz Meyer, and includes birth, naturalisation and school certificates; driving licences; British army records and sundry correspondence

  9. Hinrichsen Family Collection

    This collection comprises copy and original documents of the family and material relating to the business, especially post war. In addition there is material relating to restitution claims including stolen art works and miscellaneous printed material.

  10. Hilde Badrian: School identity card

    The Ausweis-Karte is issued by the art school “Schule Reimann Berlin” for Miss Hilde Badrian for the Arts and Applied Arts Department. The school regulations are printed on the backside of the card. German 

  12. Hedwig Beck: papers re restitution claim

    The papers in this collection relate to an application made by two Czech sisters, Hedwig and Pauline Beck, resident in France during the war, for compensation for possessions stolen by the nazis from their sister, Sabina Bauml (née Beck), after she was transported to Auschwitz with her son in January 1944.They include translations of residency permits; inventories of possessions confiscated by the nazis; affidavits from friends and acquaintances in support of the application for compensation and post war correspondence between the French authorities and the Beck sisters re compensation.

  13. Nuremberg war crimes trials: Reports and other papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection consists of mostly original documents relating to the Nuremberg Trial of the major German war crminals. The papers in this collection are those which she had worked on and which had been in her desk when she left.The bulk of the material appears to be a case for the indictment broken down into 6 parts covering such offences as war crimes, crimes against Jews, and the plunder of art treasures. Each case is supported by argument and reference to documentary evidence. The names of the individ...

  14. Hilde Sanderson: family papers

    This collection of papers documents in part the lives of a German Jewish family, persecuted by the Nazis, and the processes involved in the subsequent claim for restitution from the German government. The following is a list of the family members whose names occur in the collections.\ Stanley Tash (Sally Tachauer), Hilde Sanderson (née Tachauer) and Gisela (Ella) Feuchtwanger (previously Plaut, née Tachauer) are all siblings.\ Hedwig, Rosa and Alfred Seelig are all siblings, the aunts and uncle of the above.\ Ilse Seelig, (later Warner) was a cousin of Regina Tachauer (née Tachauer), Stanly...

  15. Jews in Hungary: Miscellaneous documents

    Apparently unrelated documents concerning Jews in Hungary.

  17. Situation of non-aryan lawyers in Germany: Report

    The report explains the background to the level of discrimination against non-aryan lawyers, which obtained in Germany, c1934, by describing the forcible expulsions of judges and lawyers from Breslau courts; subsequent ad hoc discriminatory actions in other parts of the country; and the official sanctions of these actions by the Ministry of Justice.

  18. Copy documents re Herschel Grynszpan

    This collection comprises copy documents relating to the Herschel Grynszpan/ Ernst vom Rath affair. In addition there is a covering note containing commentary on the documents from Vincent Frank-Steiner.

  19. Josef Reheis: Indictment

    Certified copy of an indictment of a forester, Josef Reheis from Brannenburg, Bavaria the Oberlandesgericht, Munich. This is an example of the prosecution of an ordinary German citizen for uttering ‘unpatriotic' sentiments about the war. Having admitted to two strangers that he regularly listened to foreign radio stations for reliable news about the progress of the war and that he felt Germany was sure to lose, he was denounced by them, and sentenced to two years imprisonment.

  20. Goldstaub family papers

    Personal papers of the Goldstaub family