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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. German Jewish artists: exhibition catalogue

    German Jewish artists: exhibition catalogue 

  2. Sonja Lange: work permit

    Work permit for the Jewess, Sonja Lange, issued by the balloon works department of the Zeppelin Airship Company, Berlin,German 

  3. Arnost Polak: family correspondence and papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises original postcards and letters from Gerta and Rudolf Pollak, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp in former Czechoslovakia and Siedliszcze, a forced labour camp in the Lublin area, Poland. Also included are some recent photographs of Terezin and memorial stones. The letters are particularly significant for historians of the period because they provide a detailed insight into ghetto life and shed light on the fate of one transport from Terezin to Lublin District in Poland. The f...

  4. Miscellaneous press cuttings and photographs

    Press cuttings consisting of features, book reviews published extracts and editorials on a variety of different Holocaust topics, for instance Concentration Camps and their Liberation and contemporary Jewish life in Britain and Jerusalem; Schindler's List etc.English. 

  5. Lazarus Horowitz, Luzern: correspondence

    The correspondence consists primarily of letters from friends and relatives thanking Lazarus Horowitz for his help and describing their plight either fleeing from or captives of the Nazis.

  6. Account re Ruth Plaut

    Account re Ruth Plaut

  7. Reichsminister des Innern: List of the addresses of Nazi officials

    List of addresses of the main Nazi government officials produced by the Reichsminister des Innern, marked ‘Secret' 

  8. Commemorative material re nazi victims of Kiel

    This collection of copy material relates to the commemoration of former Jewish residents of Kiel, Friedrich Schumm and Hillert Luecken,who died at the hands of the Nazis.

  9. Hadjeret el Meguil, Algeria: Various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents concerning life in Hadjeret el Meguil and other internment camps in Vichy North Africa was, according to a covering note at the beginning of the collection, donated to the Wiener Library, by way of gratitude for the assistance that was given to the depositor with respect to his restitution claims.Material re camps in North Africa including the following:Type-written copy of a novel, "Levinstein", by Peter Andreas, based on his experiences in forced labour units ...

  10. Report re antisemitism in Holland

    Report, by Miss de Boer according to an account by Mr L. Ph. Polak, re the persecution of Jews in Holland covering the period 1940-1945 and including reference to the destruction of a synagogue; erosion of Jews' rights and privileges; execution of the Chief Rabbi; transportation of Jews to WesterborkEnglish 8 pages 

  11. Various news cuttings

    Volume of news cuttings This collection of newspaper cuttings contains poetry relating to the First World War and a variety of news stories from Die Nation and the Frankfurter Zeitung.

  13. Nuremberg and Fürth: Eyewitness testimonies of Nazi persecution

    The first item is a report of events in Nürnberg and Fürth during Kristallnacht. The second item is a copy transcript of a letter, the author and addressee of which are unknown, wherein 2 elderly women describe conditions in Germany in 1942.

  14. Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

    Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.German 9 pages 

  16. Anti-fascist leaflet

    This British postwar antifascist leaflet entitled “Look what's crawling out again” draws attention to the danger of Owald Mosley's Union Movement.

  17. Frank family: papers

    This collection contains the family papers of August Frank, former high court judge from Munich.The papers include various 19th century wills, birth and marriage certificates, family correspondence etc.

  18. Copy papers re the Holocaust in Poland

    1295/1 Sheet of copy photographs containing the following 3 images: nd1) undated photograph of children in a classroom at Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. The children perished at Auschwitz in May 1944. The teacher was the depositor's mother. 2) undated photograph of a woman, Sarah Krischer, who was selected by Mengele in May 1944. She was 27 years old. Her 2 sisters, brother and nephews as well as parents were selected by Mengele and gassed on the day of arrival. 3) undated photograph taken in Volhynia province, Poland. The 2 men with beards were murdered. The one on the left is Rabbi I...

  19. Martin Fisher: personal papers

    Personal papers and correspondence of Martin Fisher