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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Article on Kafka

    In addition there is a note from a producer of the BBC's 'Third Programme', regarding a possible talk by Robert Weltsch on Franz Kafka, who also knew him quite well.

  3. Material re Holocaust testimony

    This collection of papers concerns the creation and preservation of personal testimonies relating to the Holocaust, including correspondence from the Imperial War Museum and the Shoah Foundation.

  4. Fate of Jews, Vienna: Confidential

    Confidential notice from the Gestapo, Darmstadt, to various officials in the state of Hesse, regarding measures taken against the Jewish population of Vienna, by the police authorities there. 

  6. Emil Fuchs collection

    Emil Fuchs: Correspondence and papers comprising letters mostly written by Emil and Paula Fuchs in Vienna to their children  in Great Britain; also some copy documentation

  7. Hebrew Committee of National Liberation: Copy letter re settlement in Palestine

    Copy letter from Hillel Kook aka Peter Bergson, chairman of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, to Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in which he explains in some detail his ideas for the settlement of Palestine.English 23 pages 

  9. Heydecker: family papers

    This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of the Heydecker family, German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Great Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

  10. Material on 'Rassenkunde' and 'Rassenhygiene'

    This collection comprises miscellaneous articles, book reviews and other papers on the subject of ethnology and racial doctrine, much of which espousing Nazi racial ideology.

  11. Notes re the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany

    Notes on the ownership and control of banking and industry in post-war Germany. The notes provide details on the fate of German banking and industry in the zones of the 4 occupying powers. Issues such as nationalisation (socialisation), decartellisation are discussed and reference is made to the fate of some of Nazi Germany's leading banks and companies. The sources for these notes are newspaper reports; notes taken at press conferences; and extracts from the constitutions of various Länder

  12. George Rigal: Reports re persecution of Jews in Russia

    Nothing is known about the circumstances surrounding the creation of these reports of Jewish persecution in the Soviet Union.

  13. Jüdische Volkspartei: appeal re leadership

    Appeal to the Jewish community council in Berlin concerning the leadership of the Jüdische Volkspartei.

  14. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda: correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of correspondence and papers of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda contains mostly Anti-semitic material.

  15. German revisionist leaflet

    Advertisement for German revisionist publications, written by Heinz Roth. Denies the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

  16. Jacob Samuel collection

    Collection of papers including an image of the testimonial in recognition of Jacob Samuel's service to the Jewish community in Stettin; letter of congratulations on his 25th wedding anniversary

  17. Reichskanzlei and Reichspräsident: Official correspondence

    These miscellaneous letters from various offices within the Nazi party hierarchy cover a variety of apparently unrelated, low level subjects. A fifth letter (possibly addressed to the depositor), from a British soldier, describing efforts to trace friends and family of the addressee, is written on paper, on the back of which is printed the name and address of Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbankpräsident.

  18. Academics persecuted by the Nazis: Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the fate of Jewish mathematicians and academics during the Nazi era.

  19. Hitler's foreign policy: two articles

    With each article is a covering letter from the author in London to the publisher (?), Max Sievers, in Brussels. The first covering letter makes mention of the fact that the author wishes to remain anonymous in the interests of the security of his parents, who were still living in Germany.

  20. The Tythrop Institute: copy papers re appeal for funds

    This collection of copy papers deals with the project of a group called the Langham Committee, whose object was to put to work several hundred German, Austrian and Czech Jewish refugees on the renovation of a delapidated manor House and grounds, Tythrop House. For a system of block guarantees a small band of young people came together calling themselves 'the Langham Committee' which has been able to ensure that some 200 working class men and girls are able to enter Great Britain.This copy appeal and account documents the committee's activities. 929/3 is a narrative account of its activities...