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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  3. Material re James Loeb

    This collection consists of copy correspondence and printed material relating to the 50th anniversary of the death of James Loeb, German Jewish antique collector and philanthropist.

  4. Manfred Gans: Copy diary extract

    Manfred Gans: Copy diary extract in which the author describes meeting British, American and Russian troops, German soldiers, prisoners of war and refugees

  5. Kurt Gerron: personal papers re Theresienstadt film

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises the papers of Kurt Gerron which were created during the course of making the infamous propaganda film, which he directed and which was shot in Theresienstadt-Ghetto in 1944. It was originally entitled Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet but came to be known as Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt. The papers consist of descriptions of the days' shooting; itemized camera shot descriptions; narrator's text and related correspondence and papers. The pap...

  6. Polish Jewry during the Nazi era: Extracted accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French Jew's experience of Auschwitz.Transcript of T-77 Roll 1443 Records of Headquarters, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, "Feindpropaganda in Generalgouvernment wertet den Katyn Fall zu angriffen auf die Methoden des KZ-Lagers Auschwitz aus," (20.4.1943)A Polish profe...

  7. Copy antsemitic material

    This copy anti-Semitic material includes a letter from Jane Birdwood as director of Choice magazine; and various articles on Iraq, Maastricht, and the so called Jewish conspiracy.

  9. Protocols of the Elders of Zion: statement re their reliability

    This is a copy of an authenticated statement by Philip P Graves, former correspondent of the Times, which confirms that the content of a pamphlet entitled The Truth about the 'Protocols'- a Literary Forgery is true. The pamphlet comprises 3 articles written by the above author and published in The Times in August 1921, all of which assert that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery. It appears that the statement was made in relation to the trial in Berne regarding the reliability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The statement is addressed to a court in Berne, Switzerl...

  11. Dr Julius Katz-Suchy: statement re genocide

    In this article from Poland of Today, March 1949 Vol.4 No.3, Dr Juliusz Katz-Suchy, Polish representative at the Plenary meeting of the Seventh Session of the Economic and Social Council on 27 August 1948, explains why he abstained from voting on the Draft Convention on Genocide adopted by the United Nations.

  12. Copy report re situation of Jews in Germany

    The detailed knowledge of wide ranging prohibition, intimidation and persecution suggests that the report is genuine. It is stated on the first page that the report was written by 'an intelligent and reliable emigrant, for many years a resident of Berlin.' It is also marked 'Confidential, not to be published' and dated March 17 1942, New York although the title is 'Jews in Germany, October 1941'.

  13. Copy papers concerning Karl Wittig

    This collection of copy papers documents the experiences of Karl Wittig in Germany during the Nazi era and in the immediate postwar years. The papers include sworn statements by various witnesses (including Pastor Martin Niemöller) who testify to his incarceration in various concentration camps.

  14. Birkenau: copy report re poison trace

    This collection comprises documents concerning the existence of poison traces in the debris taken from the crematorium at the death camp of Birkenau. It includes a request (887/1) from the Committee Investigating German War Crimes in Poland to the Institute of Toxicological Experts in Krakau to investigate and report on the extent to which various items salvaged from Birkenau contain traces of poison. the items include 25.5 kg of human hair; zinc metal sheets which covered the vent openings of the crematoria; mortar from the walls; and various metal objects. The report (887/2) concludes tha...

  15. Shatzky family papers

    The collection contains a report about the life of Israel Shatzky, a letter from an unidentified parent to a daughter called Mertche, and family photographs.

  17. La Vista Report

    /1 La Vista report, 11 pages,15.5.1947/2 Short bibliography of articles re Vatican and escaped Nazis/3 Copy letter from Bob Fink to Tom Bower re La Vista Report, 29.6.1983

  18. Norbert Masur: Report re meeting with Himmler

    The report describes a meeting between Norbert Masur and Himmler in Berlin, 20 April 1945, which was arranged by Felix Kersten, Himmler's doctor, the objective of which was to bring about the release of Jews from concentration camps. The meeting resulted in the release of all the women from Ravensbrück and of prisoners from a number of other camps.

  19. Baldur von Schirach: texts from various speeches

    Copy transcriptions of speeches dealing mainly with youth in Nazi Germany. Each speech was subsequently checked and edited by Mia Thiel Hansen in the employ of the BBC on 19 November 1945. An original certificate of authentication signed by Mia Thiel Hansen is enclosed with each speech.

  20. Wehrmacht: Copy instructions re management of troops

    Copy translation of ‘Special issue of notes for the officer corps' issued by the High Command of the Wehrmacht under the following headings ‘the morale of troops must be raised'; ‘false interpretation of the word surrender'; ‘it is urgently necessary to make clear to the troops the exact sense of this conception on the part of the general'; ‘when and why officers must save themselves'; ‘instructions for the handling of soldiers' GPS'