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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  2. Report on 'Der Stürmer' article re ritual murder - no date

    Report about an article in an issue of Der Stürmer in which an allegation is made of ritual murder in a small village in the Saar c1903.

  3. Kurt Josef Stangl: Ahnenpass

    Kurt Josef Stangl: Ahnenpass. In addition to the original document there is also a copy and English translation of the printed introduction.The Ahnenpass traces the descent of the family back to the 18th century.

  4. Austrian League: Letter re Bavarian Movement

    Letter calling for the founding of a ‘Free Bavarian Movement' by Otto Hecht of the Austrian League 

  5. C.P. Carter: Letter re the bombing of Hamburg

    Letter speculating on the reasons for the accuracy/ inaccuracy of the British bombing of Hamburg 

  7. Gitel and Isaac Coppel: family tree

    This collection consists of correspondence and a family tree of the descendants of the Jewish couple Gitel and Isaac Coppel, whose family has had interconnected German and British relations since 1807 when their eldest son was sent to England to prevent his forced enrolment in Napoleon's armies for the Russian campaign.Papers including translations of Hebrew gravestone inscriptions of Isaac Coppel, Bräune Coppel (Isaac's mother) and Gitel Coppel who were buried at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Hanover (Lower Saxony).

  8. Copy letter extract re Kristallnacht

    Copy extract of a letter describing the events of Kristallnacht in Zirndorf (near Nürnberg, Bayern?)

  9. Eyewitness testimony collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not testimonies per se but contemporary documents which were donated and later subsumed into this collection. These latter have nonetheless been catalogued and indexed in the same way as the testimonies.

  10. NSDAP Auslandorganisation: newsletter extracts

    This collection consists primarily of typescript extracts from the official organ of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation. It appears that the extracts were compiled contemporaneously, possibly by the JCIO. The date of the last extract, January 1936, gives some indication as to the date of completion. The choice of extracts is explained in a footnote to a summary of the extracts (840/2) which states that only those articles were chosen which contained particularly interesting items of news and announcements. The subjects include matters of finance, economics, schools and the welfare of German wom...

  12. Norbert Zils: letter re Marianne Isaac

    This copy letter was given to the depositor by the recipient, Ruth Wolf. Ruth Wolf had earlier responded to a letter to a Birmingham newspaper from the same author, requesting information on the whereabouts of Marianne Isaac. It appears that the author, Norbert Zils, a history teacher from a small town in (West) Germany, was trying to put together an exhibition on the fate of the town's Jews. He was particularly concerned that the local people do not succeed in repressing knowledge of events which took place during the nazi era.

  13. Copy eyewitness reports regarding the November Pogrom

    These copy reports are apparently strays from a full collection of 356 reports (WL Document Collection 1375) gathered in the weeks and months following the November Pogrom of 1938 by the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam. They bear a similar reference number to the rest of the reports in this collection, pre-fixed by the letter 'B'. These reports have been numbered separately (B40, B41, B42) and are in relation to the destruction of synagogues in Germany during the November Pogrom. 

  15. Bern: Copy court papers re libel action brought by Jewish community

    Copy papers re a private action brought by the Schweiz. Israelitischer Gemeindebund and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Bern against the Gauleitung des Bundes Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen, re a case comprising the following charges: contravening the law on trash literature; distributing pamphlets; publishing an article ‘Swiss girls beware of Jews'; and selling the brochure ‘the Zionist Protocols'.53 pages

  16. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  17. Holocaust survivor interview transcripts

    The transcribed life stories of Holocaust surviviors in this collection are the result of Freda Kosmin’s efforts to record and preserve the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust, paying particular attention to what they achieved after the war. The project was therefore given the title: How Hitler failed: From Survival to Success.The project was instigated when Freda met one of the interviewees then saw him speak publicly about his experiences. He agreed to be interviewed by Freda and also recommended other potential interviewees. There are 7 interview transcripts in total, each seve...

  18. Jews in Berlin at the beginning of 1942: a report

    This typescript report on conditions in Berlin is the product of a conversation with a Jewish woman who left Berlin in the beginning of 1942 and arrived in London in October of that year.

  20. Gerhard Goldbaum: Copy papers

    Gerhard Goldbaum: Copy papers re Primo Levi