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

  1. Siegfried Kessler: Correspondence

    This collection of mostly original correspondence between Siegfried Kessler, a Czech Jewish exile in London, and various organisations and individuals, sheds light on the conditions of Czech Jews in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the war and the processes involved in getting them out.According to an incomplete curriculum vitae at -/20

  2. Malvin Warschauer: copy papers

    The papers in this collection offer a detailed insight into the life and ideas of one of Germany's most distinguished Rabbis, Malvin Warschauer. They also give an account of the lives of Jews in Germany, particularly Berlin, from the end of the 19th century to the Nazi era

  3. Report on conditions in Camp du Vernet by Francois Bondy

    Report on conditions in Camp du Vernet, Ariège , France, written by Francois Bondy. This typescript report about life in  Camp du Vernet, Ariège , France, is in French and dated 2 August 1940, Geneva. It has been annotated 'Not for Publication', 'Confidential'. Bondy also adds as a postscript that the facts contained in the report can be confirmed by the 'six Swiss who were repatriated with him'.

  4. Neumann and Mendel Business and Family papers

    This collection of family papers and business papers comprises several separate deposits, made some time after Luise Neumann's death in the 1980s. This is a good example of a collection of business papers of a former Jewish Company in Germany which was taken over as part of the Nazi aryanisation process, containing a range of records one would expect to see in a business archive as well as documents referring specifically to the persecution of the owners on the grounds of race [1023/1/39 and 1023/1/13]. The collection also contains papers which document the experiences of the family as they...

  5. Vicky Abrams: Personal papers and material re Neu Beginnen

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital content: 1031/1; 1031/2The papers in this collection document in part the experiences of Vicky Abrams (formerly Hedwig Abranowicz/ Hedwig Leibetseder), who was a member of the Leninist underground organisation of 1930s Berlin, Neu Beginnen. Also included are family papers and material about Neu Beginnen

  6. Fred Kormis, sculptor: Personal papers and photographs

    The papers in this collection consist mostly of photographs of the work of the sculptor and medallion maker, Fred Kormis. In addition there is some correspondence mostly relating to his work, including letters of thanks from Lord Mountbatten, Menachem Begin and members of the British War Cabinet during the Second World War, for whom Kormis sculpted medallions.

  7. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: copy personal correspondence

    The copy correspondence in this collection documents in part the experiences of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and her sisters in Bergen Belsen concentration camp and in England, 1945, and the experiences of their parents prior to transportation to certain death close to the Lublin Ghetto, 1942.

  8. Heilbrunner: Eyewitness account of life in Dachau

    Typescript memoir of life in Dachau by a Jewish inmate, Heilbrunner, in 1933. Written in the form of a narrative in the first person and structured into four chapters, it describes in some detail the conditions in the camp and the brutality of the camp guards. It contains manuscript annotations and corrections.German Typescript 54 pages 

  9. Papers re documentary film about the Anschluss

    These papers were created during the course of the making of a film about the Anschluss, which was shown on the German television station, ZDF, in 1988.The bulk of the material consists of transcripts of interviews of a variety of people who experienced the Anschluss ranging from modern well-known personalities, former resistance members, former Nazis and diplomats. In addition there are notes on the programme design and biographical notes and cuttings on the interviewees.

  10. Erich Kaiser: Personal Papers

    The original letters and postcards in this collection document the experiences of Erich Kaiser, a German emigré journalist in France The papers consist of original correspondence mainly between Erich and sister Ilse (-/1); examples of Erich Kaiser's journalism (-/2); miscellaneous papers (-/3); and correspondence with the Wiener Library (-/4)

  11. Reports and correspondence re Gurs and other French concentration camps

    These papers offer some insight into conditions in French internment camps during the 1940s, in particular in Gurs. Most of the reports and correspondence are contemporary copies or transcriptions.

  12. E. Ohly: Copy family papers

    This collection of papers documents in part the experiences of a German Jewish family from Munich. The papers include original correspondence from friends and relatives and material from the Jewish organizations which arranged the details of the transport to Terezin.

  13. Elise Steiner: Copy family correspondence

    This collection comprises photocopies of the original manuscript letters and typescript transcriptions, which were produced by the depositor, date unknown. Some of the themes which recur throughout include the following: gratitude that at least one child was able to escape and moreover to continue with her education; efforts to find a place on the Kindertransport for Leo; news of the fate of other family members who had managed to emigrate to various countries; the takeover of the family business (although 'Aryanisation' is not explicitly mentioned). Despite the increasing difficulties of l...

  14. A. M. Priestley: copy transcript correspondence

    This collection of copy correspondence documents the experiences of a German Jewish refugee, Frederick Sittner, whilst held in Dixon's Interment Camp, Paignton, Devon. These surviving transcripts are a fraction of a much larger collection. In addition a subsequent deposit from the same source (Accession No. NB 281 ) comprises a letter with further background material on Friedrich Sittner and his relationship with Mrs Priestley [The letter also mentions that the original correspondence was deposited at the Imperial War Museum in 1994]; a copy extract from Sittner's 'instructions' re the disp...

  15. Grossbard family: Correspondence

    This collection comprises correspondence from the friends and family of Siegfried Grossbard, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who eventually became resident in Great Britain. Much of the material was used by Michael Gordon, the depositor and son of Siegfried, in his history of his father's experience of the Nazi years Plaything of Destiny [Wiener Library OSP 497]. The latter provides a full history of the family and a commentary on the correspondence. Not all of the correspondence referred to in Plaything of Destiny is held within this collection. In particular there are no letters from the G...

  16. Plight of Hungarian jews: Mostly copy documents

    This collection contains mostly copy documents from the US legation in Stockholm to the US Department of State and concerns the possibility of saving Hungarian Jews during the Nazi era.

  17. Copy documents re Bad Aussee resistance movement and Operation Bernhard

    This collection of copy documentation relates to the Austrian resistance movement during the Nazi era and to the attempt by the Nazis to wage economic warfare by flooding Britain with counterfeit British currency in the operation named Unternehmen Bernhard, after the Gestapo officer in charge, Bernhard Krueger

  18. Eric Walters-Kohn: Copy family documents

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers document, in part, the life of Eric Walters-Kohn's family. The material comprises copy published and unpublished documents

  19. Miscellaneous documents re aliens in the British army

    This collection of papers documents the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish servicemen in the British Army during the Second World War.

  20. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...