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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Rolf Oppenheimer: family papers

    This collection comprises one folder containing the personal papers of Rolf Oppenheimer including his father's WWI Iron Cross certificate, work references, RAF application papers, naturalisation papers; also his uncle, Walter Fels' restitution claim including an affidavit from Ernst Niquet confirming that he hid Walter Fels in Berlin during the latter years of the war. In an audio interview the donor describes life in Berlin during the Novemberpogrom, 1938 prior to coming to Great Britain, including his membership of the Hitler Youth; details of the desperation of residents trying to l...

  2. Brussels Relief Committee: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfim collection of miscellaneous reports and papers documents the fate of Belgian Jewry during WWII.Belgian Information Center: Information regarding radio broadcasts on 16 and 17 July 1942, frames 1-6American Joint Distribution Committee publication: Liste des Israelites liberés de Camps d'Allemagne et arrives en Belgique, 31 July 1946, frames 7-27Typed extract from the 'Bulletin d'information No. 3 du conseil des Association Juives de Belgique': Manifestation Publique de Reconnaissance au ...

  3. Podhorcer family documents

    This collection of family documents consists of official papers such as copy birth, marriage and death certificates of an Austrian Jewish couple, who, it is assumed managed to escape to Great Britain just before the war (certificates declaring the couple's payment of any outstanding debts to the state are dated 1939).

  4. Travelling Exhibition 'The Wandering Jew': Antisemitic postcards

    2 postcards from the exhibition 'The Wandering Jew', with postmark Bremen, 1939

  6. Miscellaneous eyewitness testimonies

    This collection of miscellaneous testimonies and reports were originally arranged for inclusion in the Wiener Library's 'Eyewitness Accounts' series but were never included (hence the former reference numbers).Information regarding provenance, where known, is included in the description to individual reports.

  7. Press cutting about 'die Jüdische Front'

    This press cutting from the Schaerdinger Wochenblatt, 12th of June 1937, reports a call of the Austrian “Bund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten” in its official periodical “Die Jüdische Front” to defend Jews against antisemitism and to donate money for this aim. It uses this call to connect it with antisemitic stereotypes.

  9. Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck

    Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck including typescript notes of a meeting between Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Leo Baeck, October 1955 (1156/9)This collection of correspondence between Leo Baeck and Mrs Ilse Grimbly, Leo Baeck's former secretary, is mostly of an ephemeral nature.

  10. Antisemitism in Poland: reports re Jewish schools

    This collection comprises two reports on the situation of Jewish schools in Poland in 1931 and 1937 respectively. The first focuses on the effect of the anti-Jewish boycott movement; the fears of further restricted entry into the teaching profession; the failure of the Polish Socialist Party in opposing the antisemitic measures and the need for well known writers and professors to voice their disapproval of the current trend. The other report (date of receipt February 1937) provides statistics on the state of school provision for Jewish school children and describes the extent of poverty an...

  11. Rosel and Selli Goldstein: copy correspondence

    Copy correspondence from former residents of Dresden, two sisters, Rosel and Selli Goldstein, in Sorlice, Poland, to their former teacher, Fräulein Dr. Apt in Dresden and later Upper Norwood, London.

  14. Margot Brauer collection

    Margot Brauer collection 

  15. Suzanne Ullmann papers

    This collection comprises papers of the Ullmann family including correspondence received by Rudi and Lenke Ullmann in the UK from Lenke's mother Regina Brueck née Reisner, aka 'Lill Mama' (Little Grandma), 1939-1942 (with introduction and notes on individuals) 1878/1; poems by Regina Brueck, 1910-1940s, 1878/2; a long letter written by Regina Brueck to her daughter, Heddy, detailing the family's experiences in Budapest during the war, c1945, 1878/3; account by Suzanne Ullmann of life during the war in Budapest, 1878/4 

  16. Hutchinson internment camp, Isle of Man: copy documents

    The originals of this copy documentation deposited by a former inmate of Hutchinson internment camp, Isle of Man, appear to have been part of an exhibition depicting various aspects of the cultural and social life of the inmates.

  17. Kartel Convent: Various papers

    This collection contains circulars from the KC in Great Britain and the American Jewish KC Fraternity, Inc.

  19. Various eyewitness testimonies

    Various eyewitness testimonies