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

  1. Lodz ghetto: copy registration cards

    This collection consists of a photocopy of the registration cards of Isaak and Martha Teich-Birken, confirming their entry to and departure from the Lodz Ghetto, Poland. In addition to their personal details, the precise date of entry and departure is given.

  2. Frank family collection

    This collection consists of copy Red Cross telegrams between members of the Frank family during the war and with a people tracing agency after the war.

  3. Dr Richard Michels: personal papers

    This collection consists of correspondence and journals of Richard Michels, mostly whilst on board a variety of ships in his capacity as ship's doctor c1900; some photographs; and typescript accounts of Kempen, Posen by a relative on his wife's side of the family. The correspondence consists of folders of loose letters and bound volumes of letterbooks and journals. All of it is from Richard Michels to his mother.

  4. Inow family: copy correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence between Renate Inow, in England, her sister, Margalit in Sweden and Palestine and their parents in Wuppertal, Germany. The collection comprises 2 parts: an unbound volume of translations and partial translations of letters addressed to Margalit mostly whilst she was in Sweden entitled 'Voices from the Past'. This collection includes reproductions of photographs of the parents and a family tree. Margalit provides the following information in the introduction. She began collecting letters from her parents after Kristallnacht, and, after May 1939, fro...

  5. Copy papers re Rudolf Hess in Spandau

    This collection consists of copy papers relating to the imprisonment of Rudolf Hess in Spandau. The collection includes correspondence between Alfred Seidl, Hess's former defence attorney at Nuremberg and author of a number of books on Hess, and prominent politicians and public figures, who had some influence over or interestin Hess's continued imprisonment. In addition there is an affidavit from Hess' wife who testifies to a meeting shortly before Hess' flight to Scotland between Hess and Hitler. Included also are copies of contemporary documents relating to Hess.

  6. Erica Prean: account of Reichskristallnacht in Aachen

    Account of Reichskristallnacht in Aachen 

  7. Leon Goldenberg: copy military service record

    This copy service record of Leon Goldenberg documents his service in the Landwehr of the Austro-Hungarian army.

  8. Valerie and Andrea Wolffenstein: correspondence and papers

    This collection consists mainly of correspondence from friends and acquaintances of Valerie and Andrea Wolffenstein, 2 sisters of Jewish origins, who converted to Christianity and who managed to survive the war in hiding in Germany. It comprises mostly reminiscences and birthday wishes etc

  9. Traunstein DP camp: press cuttings re exhibition

    This collection consists of copy press cuttings relating to an exhibition put on by the Traunstein Stadtarchiv, "Ein Leben aufs Neu. Juedische Displaced Persons auf deutschem Boden, 1945-1948".

  10. 'Hidden Jews of Berlin': transcript interviews

    This collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted for the TV programme The Hidden Jews of Berlin. Also floppy disk of the same. The subjects include detailed accounts of life in hiding in Berlin during World War II; experience of capture, interrogation by Jewish collaborators and Gestapo and betrayal by Jews; Mischlinge; Fabrikation; Siemens; Rosenstrasse protest; Grosse Hamburger Strasse; life in Berlin before the war.

  11. Josef Mueller: war crimes trial copy papers

    This collection of material came about as a result of research into the events that took place in Plaszow concentration camp, in particular the crimes and testimony of Josef Mueller, one of the former commandants. The papers consist of the trial judgement, a transcript of his interrogation and various statements in the case against Mueller. There are also numerous statements from Mueller, acting as a witness in the trials of other defendants. Also included is correspondence between the depositor and the Wiener Library.

  12. Wilhelm Rosenbaum: copy verdict in war crimes trial

    This document comprises copy extracts from the verdict and judgment in the case against Wilhelm Karl Johannes Rosenbaum

  13. Schlesinger family documents

    This collection documents the experiences of a Jewish family in Vienna before and just after the Nazi occupation. This includes official correspondence which highlights the increasingly Anti-semitic measures taken by the authorities.The collection also contains a long letter from Jewish friends of the family, who managed to survive the war years in Hungary. This is a rare and valuable account of the Hungarian Jewish experience during the Nazi era, containing descriptions of life in hiding, deportations, massacres by Hungarian Nazis and life in Budapest in the immediate postwar years.

  14. Esther Pauline Lloyd: camp diaries

    This collection consists of two surviving diaries of a British Jewish resident of Jersey, Channel Islands, whilst in internment camps first in Compiegne, France, and later Biberach, Germany. In addition to a daily account of life in the respective camps at Compiegne and Biberach, the diaries contain notes, addresses, recipes and draft letters.

  15. Former nazis in Middle East: various papers

    This collection of various papers relates to former Nazis in Muslim countries in the Middle East and German/ Arab relations in the 1960s./1: Article entitled 'Ehemalige Nazis im Dienste Aegyptens', 23 Mar 1965No author German 4 pages/2: Article entitled 'Nazi Criminals in Arab Countries', March 1965No author English 10 pages/3: Orphan document entiled 'Appendix: Some of the Leading Former Nazis in United Arab Republic Service', ndNo author English 2 pages/4: Article entitled 'Arab Anti-Semitism', ndNo author English 8 pages/5 Anti-Semitic leaflet addessed to the German people from unidentif...

  16. Adler family papers

    Collection of papers, correspondence and ephemera of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936.

  17. George Jacob Rosney: Copy war time correspondence

    War time correspondence between George J Rosney, who enlisted with the British Liberation Army, and his relatives.Includes correspondence between George J Rosney stationed with 3rd Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery and his uncle Ludwig Mayer and cousin Hans Mayer in London (1944-1945) (1663/1-2); details of his search for his parents after the end of the war who were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp and diary of a visit to Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp where his parents were taken before being transported to Auschwitz (1945) (1663/3); correspondence by George Rosne...

  19. Gisela and Adolf Adler: Personal papers

    This collection contains correspondence, photograph and personal papers documenting the lives of Adolf and Gisela Adler, a Jewish couple who emigrated from Nazi Germany, and their search for relatives after the war.

  20. Adolf Neumann and Margot Cahn: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Margot Cahn (1928-1949) (1674/1-23) and Dr Adolf Neumann (1933-1938) (1674/24-29), who met in 1933 documenting their daily lives, meetings and social events in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until the November pogroms in 1938. Shortly after this event they both emigrated to different countries, Margot to England and Adolf to Scandinavia. Margot Cahn's life in London can be traced through her diaries until 1949. The diaries include poetry and contain memorabilia such as photographs, press cuttings, programmes as well as pressed flowers and leaves.