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

  1. Wolfgang and Werner Loewy: Correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

  3. A.P. Peres: correspondence with Dr E. Benes and other papers

    These papers document, in part, the activities of Czech exiles in London during the war and the situation in Czechoslovakia in the immediate post war years. The papers include correspondence between Alfred Pavel Peres and the president of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes.

  4. Alice Fink: Family papers

    These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

  5. Terezin: Note re materials and shortage of doctors

    Copy note from the health section of the Jewish Management Committee of Terezin re materials and shortage of doctors 

  6. Copy witness statements re Auschwitz war criminals

    Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who descr...

  8. Order re measures against Jews, Vienna

    Order from the Führer des SS Oberabschnittes österreich, Vienna, to all SS units referring to an order of Gauleiter Buerckel that all section leaders were to be responsible for preventing actions by the SS against Jews and that if measures have to be taken against Jews these would be carried out by the authorities and the Gestapo.It bears a stamp (in French) of the U.S. 3rd Army, which suggests it became a captured document probably during the occupation of Austria by the allies at the end of the war.

  9. Gross family documents

    This collection of family papers documents the experiences of an assimilated German Jewish family some of whom managed to escape to safety and others who perished in the Holocaust. It consists of original correspondence between members of the family and friends before, during and after the war. Also included are personal papers such as certificates and photographs.

  10. War Crimes Trials: various papers

    This collection consists of a papers relating to a number of separate war crimes trials deposited at different times from different sources.

  12. Julian Lehmann: various press cuttings and articles

    This collection comprises miscellaneous press cuttings from German language newspapers dating from c1916 to the 1930s which can roughly be classified into those dealing with the life and work of contemporary Jewish personalities such as Freud, Einstein and Stefan Zweig, on the one hand and articles of a general Jewish interest on the other. In addition there are a number of draft typescript articles and notes on a variety of subjects ranging from obituary notices to articles describing the experiences of German Jewish immigrants to Great Britain during the Nazi era. They are either clearly ...

  13. Pottlitzer family papers

    Papers of the Pottlitzer family including birth, marriage and death certificates; Deutsches Reich Kennkarte for Margot Strauss (1194/7); reference from a former employer, where Margot worked as an editor/ journalist, dated 10 March 1933 (1194/3); copy manuscript letter from Max Pottlitzer to the Polizeiamt, Schöneberg, Berlin, in which he registers the transfer of money and property to his mother, [as required by the recently enacted law relating to the registering of Jewish property], dated 22 September 1938 (1194/4).Mostly German 

  14. Hinda Elsztajn: report re Nazi persecution

    Interview transcript of Hinda Elsztajn, former inmate at Auschwitz and victim of Dr. ClaubergFrench Brussels 9 pages 

  15. Julian Layton papers

    This collection of papers documents the activities of Lt. Colonel Julian Layton, a British born Jew, of German Jewish origins, who assisted many German Jewish refugees before the war and internees during the war. The collection comprises several deposits from different sources.

  16. Hepner and Cahn: family papers

    This collection of papers consists primarily of original (and some copy) correspondence between friends and relatives of the Cahn Hepner family. Käthe Ruth Cahn-Hepner (1924-2019) and Mrs Jacobs-Hepner, the depositors of this collection, are the daughters of Fritz and Leonie Cahn, German Jews who spent the war years in Switzerland. The depositors provided brief notes about most of the correspondents, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. This information has been incorporated into the descriptions below, along with information from additional sources, which sheds further light on their fa...

  18. War crimes trials: Document transcripts and other papers

    This collection consists of trial transcripts and copy documents relating to the trial proceedings at Nuremberg, which followed the trial of the major war criminals. The papers in this collection comprise copy trial transcripts, and reports and correspondence relating to some of the 'subsequent trials' mentioned above. It is worth noting that the trial transcripts are verbatim whereas those in the published version are often abridged or extracted.