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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. 60th anniversary of Wiener Library

    To commemmorate the 60th anniversary of the Wiener Library in London, a reception was held at the German Embassy in London, where the German ambassador, Dr. von Ploetz, and the chairman of the Wiener Library, Ernst Fraenkel both spoke. This collection comprises the texts of their speeches.

  2. Stephen de Bastion: copy family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the family of Hungarian born Stephen de Bastion, pianist and composer, formerly known as Istvan Bastyai.Copy family papers including a transcript of an interview with Stephen de Bastion describing his life; a history of the Bastyai-Holtzer family with family tree; a history of the town of Szeged, Hungary where the family lived; and an account by Edith de Bastion of her family's experiences under the Nazis and press cuttings, and photographs.

  3. Esther Brunstein: text of speech given at UN

    This document is the text of a speech made by Esther Brunstein at the United Nations Building, New York, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  4. Moritz Plaut: biography

    This biography of Moritz Plaut, a banker, and resident of Berlin (1822-1910) was written by his daughters, Franziska Model, Margarethe Lehmann, Susanne Blumenthal and published, with original photographs pasted in, in June 1922.

  5. Copy affidavit from Manfred Rommel

    Copy affidavit from Manfred Rommel asserting that his father Fieldmarschal Erwin Rommel was murdered on the orders of Adolf Hitler

  6. Report re conditions in France under German occupation

    Report re conditions in France under German occupation including detail on the following subjects: smuggling people out of the country; good behaviour and manners of the invading force; the price of goods. The report has been annotated thus: ‘Reliable report; not for publication'English. 5 pages 

  7. Jewish Board of Deputies' Aliens Committee: minutes and reports

    The material sheds light on the role of the Aliens Committee of the Board of Deputies with respect to the treatment of aliens in Britain in the early 1930s.

  8. Letter

    New years greeting card, 27.12.1938Envelope with U.S.-Censorship-stampProfessor Witold S. Sworakowski, Assistant Director of the Hoover Institution, initiated the project and carried all the negotiations to a successful conclusion.

  10. Duke of Buccleuch and Nathan Laski: Copy correspondence re antisemitism in Germany

    Correspondence between the Duke of Buccleuch and Nathan Laski, in which Laski refutes a number of popular myths such as rich Jews flaunted their wealth; the majority of poor Jews were communist agitators; Jews dominated the British press; Jewish professionals and retailers remained popular amongst Germans even after the imposition of restrictions. Ultimately he seems to concur with the conciliatory approach recommended by Buccleuch as evidenced by the final sentence: “...I opposed the resolution [attacking Chamberlain's policy] and urged that no effort should be spared to come to an agreeme...

  11. Löw family papers

    This collection comprises a copy typescript history of the Löw family written by Alfred Löw in 1933 and a copy manuscript mid 18th century list of privileged and non-privileged Jews.

  12. Adolf Wald: Bar Mitzwah album

    The album contains mostly letters, cards and telegrams congratulating the subject on reaching his Bar Mitzwah

  14. BBC German Service: 'Letter Box' programme transcripts

    This collection of transcripts of the BBC German Service 'Letter Box' programme documents the opinions of ordinary Germans, Austrians and Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Subjects include the question of guilt; de-nazification; living conitions; life under occupation; the experiences of returning Jews.

  16. Max Sanders: personal papers

    This collection consists of mostly original personal papers of Max Sander, a German Jew, who apparently came to Great Britain in 1939 and, according to an unidentified note died, in London in 1979. Little more is known about the subject beyond the following few details gleaned from the papers themselves.

  17. Fernbach family documents

    A short play written to celebrate the marriage of Eugen and Ida Fernbach forms the beginning of this history of the family which Eugen Fernbach continued to write until shortly before his death in 1936. A few additional entries by Hans Rainer Fernbach, his grandson, cover some events in later years. At the end of the chronicle there is the life story of his son, Wolfgang, a few newspaper cuttings and an itinerary of all voyages undertaken by Eugen and Ida Fernbach. A few family documents complete the collection. The chronicle is a quite detailed description of a well-to-do, though not rel...

  18. Papers of Heinz Werner Löwenstein

    The collection comprises two separate deposits from the family Löwenstein in 1988. The first (643/1/1) consists of correspondence between Heinz Werner Löwenstein and his parents, 1935-1940. The letters provide an interesting account of the difficulties encountered by a young immigrant trying to make his way in South Africa as well as of the life led by Jewish people in pre-war Berlin. For obvious reasons the letters make hardly any reference to the political situation and the real hardships and dangers of the parents' lives are hidden. The second deposit consists of correspondence from Hein...