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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Hermann Maas and Paul Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    This is a collection of post-war copy correspondence between Hermann Maas, a German protestant minister, and two siblings, Jewish 'Mischlinge' emigrés, whom Maas helped to save from the Nazis.

  2. Reichsminister Lammers: Letter re the events of 20 July 1944

    Confidential circular letter to the leading government officials from Dr Lammers, Reichsminister and Chef der Reichskanzlei, regarding the Nazi government’s public treatment of the bomb plot of 20 July 1944  

  3. Chances of surviving a German concentration camp: report

    This copy report on Jewish resistance and survival in concentration camps poses a counter argument to Bruno Bettleheim's contention that camp experience created an infantile passive response, suggesting instead that inmates developed a variety of ways of resistance. This report was written in his capacity as an employee of the Dutch Sociologisch Instituut and is essentially a programme for research replete with rationale and methodology, also including a pro forma letter to authors of eyewitness testimonies seeking permission to use their accounts. Several parts of this text subsequently ap...

  4. George Rosney papers

    This collection contains family correspondence of George Rosney including letters received by him in England from his parents in Karlsruhe and later Stuttgart prior to their deportation to Terezin. Also included is correspondence from various other individuals to George; a separate set including detailed account of George's impressions of Germany in the imediate aftermath of the war. In addition there is a set of correspondence received and copy outgoing of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a cousin resident in the USA, which documents the efforts made to extricate Carl and Lise Rosenfeld from Germany.

  5. Leo Baeck: Letter to Mrs Ehrenberg

    Original letter from Leo Baeck to Frau Ehrenberg

  7. Gerhart Riegner : Correspondence

    Collection of letters and postcards found within the pages of books from the Gerhart Riegner library, which was bequeathed to the Wiener Library in 2002.

  8. Deutsche Freiheitsbriefe: copy issue

    This copy issue of Deutsche Freiheitsbriefe is accompanied by a commentary which sheds light on the history and content of the periodical.

  9. Cahn family papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn (the depositor) from England to her father in Mönchen- Gladbach, 1940s. Also included is a copy claim form by Fritz Cahn in Canda for compensation from the city of Mönchen- Gladbach.Sophie's father, Emanuel, died in Theresienstadt in 1942. The children ended up in Canada, USA, UK, and Israel.

  10. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: deportation order

    This order from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland to Frau D. S. Allfeld, partner in a mixed marriage, to go on a work detail out of the city (Frankfurt a. M.) is evidence of the continuation of this organisation's activities (albeit in changed and much reduced form).After June 1943, when most of Germany's Jews had been deported to concentration/ death camps. The following features are of particular interest. The date, 8 February 1945, seems very late and suggests that the Nazis must have been desperate to recruit workers at this time. The document appears to be a contemporary c...

  11. Joseph Langland: Poems re Buchenwald

    Copies of Joseph Langland's poems about Buchenwald and Hiroshima: Buchenwald near Weimar; The Lotus Song; A Hiroshima Lullaby and a copy entry from Who's Who in America 

  12. Franz Szell: correspondence re Alfred Rosenberg

    The letter seeks to demonstrate the racially mixed background of one of the Nazis most virulent exponents of Nazi racial ideology. The collection also includes copies (in several languages) of a letter addressed to Goering, Göbbels and von Neurath, amongst others, containing essentially the same information as in the open letter (936/2). The last letter is addressed to the Justice Minister, Trygre Lie, Oslo, and in addition to the information contained in the above, contains details of the author's own experiences.

  13. Arnold Schönberg: copy papers

    This collection of copy correspondence concerns the period when he left Europe for the United States.

  14. Dorothea Strauss: Journals of the family and other papers

    This collection comprises a copy English translation of the journals of the family history: original by Dorothea Strauss, translation by Eugene Strauss, her youngest son. Note that what remains of the original still resides with the donor. Also included are copies of Red Cross telegrams between other family members, Alfred and Edmund Lehmann, Kaethe Cohn and Gerda Strauss

  15. Commemoration speech by President Roman Herzog

    This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

  16. Austrian Ministry of Finance: Gazette

    This official gazette of the Austrian Ministry of Finance lists all the artworks and other cultural goods, stolen by the Nazis, in the State's possession, which they wanted to return to their rightful owners.

  17. Waffen SS: Papers re training leaders

    These documents relate to an initiative by the Waffen SS, in 1943, to target the brighter pupils amongst the middle and higher classes to train to become leaders in the organisation.

  18. Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan

    Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan re anti-state utterances, AmsterdamAuthor unknown German I page 

  19. Bekennende Kirche: various papers

    This material relates to the growing opposition to the Nazi-supported German Christian Movement by members of the German Evangelical community. In particular, the newly formed Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) rejected the authority of the National Synod which was presided over by Nazis and demanded allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Correspondents include pastor Heinrich Vogel; Otto Dibelius, general superintendent of the Brandenburg Church; Albertz, superintendent of the Bekennende Kirche, Berlin-Brandenburg; Dr Duckert, Gauobmann Deutsche Christen.