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

  1. Henni Lesley: copy family documents

    Little is known about the subject of this collection, save that which can be gleaned from the papers themselves. It appears that Henni Lesley, formerly Lewin, formerly a Jewish resident of Berlin, was at one time imprisoned at Lichtenburg Concentration Camp (1541/1); that she probably emigrated to Great Britain shortly after her release(circa 1938/9); and that her parents were deported East in March 1943, never to be seen again (1541/4).

  2. Copy papers re Edith Stein

    This collection consists of correspondence and printed extracts relating to an aspect of the will of Edith Stein, aka St. Teresa Benedetta of the Cross, the Jewish born academic, convert to Catholicism.

  3. Walter Manes: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers of Walter Manes documents his life from youth to the immediate post-war years. In addition to the documentation, an unpublished autobiographical account (1548/1) puts the papers in context.

  4. Ernst Cohn-Wiener, Maurice Laserson: correspondence and papers

    This collection of correspondence documents the friendship between the art historian, Professor Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Dr. Maurice Laserson. It covers such subjects as Cohn-Wiener's travel experiences and the art treasures and traditions of various countries. It also documents his experience in India including comments on the situation of the indigenous Jewish population there (805/2/14). Much of the correspondence consists of mundane matters such as discussions about travel arrangements and comments on health- particularly during Cohn-Wiener's stay in India. Dr. Maurice Laserson also makes ...

  5. Eva Manes: correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence from friends of the Manes family in the immediate post war years. Much of it relates to the fate of family and friends and conditions in post war Germany.

  6. Ruth Dina Curtis: personal papers

    This collection contains copy correspondence of Ruth Dina Curtis' family members from the 1940s, an identity card for Herbert Cohn and a biographical account in English of Ruth Dina Curtis (nee Heideman) by her son.

  7. Ingeborg Samson: booklet of anti-nazi jokes

    This collection consists of a notebook containing hand-written, mostly ant-nazi jokes in Suetterlin script and a modern transcript of the same.

  8. Rudolf Beck: family papers

    This collection of papers of an Austrian Jewish family, who emigrated to England and the USA before the war, documents, in part, the activities of the family prior to emigration; life in the UK; and post war attempts to claim property in Austria.

  9. Frank Bright: copy family papers

    This collection consists of copy papers relating to the fate of members of Frank Bright's family during the Second World War. Included amongst the material in this collection is a photograph of the class from his Jewish school which he attended, c1942; the property declaration forms for his uncle and aunt from the Landeshauptarchiv, Berlin; copy pages of Testimony for the Yad Vashem Archive, Jerusalem.

  10. Hans Schwarz papers

    This collection contains papers relating to Hans Schwarz, founder of the organisation Komitee Ehemaliger Politischer Gefangener, and general secretary of its successor, Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes.

  11. Book of mourning

    This book of mourning pertains to the death of Markus Gruenebaum, the grandfather of the depositor, who died on 11 December 1912 age 89.

  12. Letter to Eva Manes

    This letter is from a former friend of Philip Manes and his wife, addressed to Eva Manes and written in 1957. It is a long rambling letter in Suetterlin script from the lady who bought Manes' grand piano for RM 1000. She lived in the same house as Philip Manes and his wife and was obviously a great friend who adored both. She writes about arrangements for payment for the piano, about Manes' problems, and also describes her own rather unhappy fate during the last years of the war and after.Most importantly, in connection with the Manes' life story, she describes the last days before their de...

  13. Kartell Conventus (Australia): Newsletter

    This newsletter from an Australian based Kartell Conventus was written by Karl Freeman in Sydney and contains a contribution from George Bergmann.Note: pages 4, 6 and 7 are missing

  14. Notes on 'Unzer Styme'

    This collection consists of notes and summaries of articles from the periodical "Unzer Styme".

  15. Harold Fraser: copy correspondence from Weimar Germany

    This collection comprises two parts: a set of copy correspondence from Harold Fraser in Hamburg, to his employers, Helbert, Wagg and Co., merchant bankers based in London, circa 1923-1924 (1567/1); and a translation of a letter entitled, "A letter from my father about his experiences during the siege and the German occupation of Warsaw" (1567/2). It is not clear how the latter document relates to the depositor. The copy correspondence from Harold Fraser in Hamburg provides an insight into the economic, social and political conditions of that city and of Germany in general, covering the peri...

  16. Klappholttal Youth Camp

    This collection of published and unpublished pamphlets and prospectuses provides a history of the Klappholttal Youth Camp, Schleswig Holstein.

  17. Eleanor Hess: family papers

    This collection of papers documents the life of a German Jewish refugee to Great Britain, Eleanor Hess, and, in part, the lives of family members. The papers include emigration and citizenship papers of her grandfather Emil, c1870s; certificates and First World War army records of Julius, her father; and correspondence from Eleanor and her brother, Herbert, in Brazil, to their mother, c1950s. In addition there is an unpublished memoir of Eleanor, which describes the life of a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany and the experience of emigration to a foreign land.

  18. Hannele Kuhn: family papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and...

  19. Otto Bondy: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Otto Bondy, German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain and civil engineer, and that of his wife, Ursula Meyer.

  20. Joyce Rozendaal Haldinstein: letters

    The correspondence includes letters from Joyce in Holland and Switzerland and letters from friends in Great Britain and USA. Also included is the issue of the Dutch journal Sliepsteen, Spring 1998, No. 55, whose main feature is an article on Joyce Rozendaal Haldinstein.