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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Second Generation Conference, 1997: Miscellaneous material

    Second Generation Conference, 1997: Miscellaneous material 

  2. 'Third Reich' Bookmark

    The bookmark is printed with advertisements for Die deutsche Landfrau and Nationalsozialistische Landpost, two agricultural periodicals 

  3. Lussja Gruschlavskaja: DP Camp letter

    Lussja Gruschlavskaja: Copy translation of DP Camp letter, in which she describes being sent to a ghetto whilst living in Latvia then jumps to her experiences of a Displaced Persons Camp 

  5. Annie Jacob: Personal account

    Annie Jacob: personal account of the war years including  a period of incarceration at Gurs internment camp 

  6. Nelki family documents

    This small collection of copy documents relates to the life of Wolfgang Nelki. See also Unpublished Memoir 4036 for the Nelki family history, written by Wolfgang Nelki.

  7. Ferdinand Schwarz: papers re emigration to England

    These papers document, in part, the process of emigration from Germany to England in 1939. The original letters are accompanied by typescript transcriptions and translations.

  8. Arnold Rosé: copt documents re wartime musical activities

    The collection was deposited at the Wiener Library on the instruction of Richard Newman, co-author of Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz, Amadeus, USA, 2000. Alma Rosé was Arnold's daughter and became the conductor of the Auschwitz orchestra, where she died in 1944. Whilst the book obviously focuses on the experiences of Alma there is substantial biographical account of many members of the family including her father and his relation to the Mahler family.

  9. Photograph of portrait of Luise Hensel

    a mounted photograph of an original pencil drawing by W. Hensel, depicts Luise Hensel (the famous Catholic poet, d. 1876?), in 19th century garb

  10. Hirsch family documents

    The papers in this collection document aspects of the life of Jonni Hirsch a Jewish Mischling, from Kiel, Schleswig-Hollstein, and of certain members on the Jewish side of his family. The papers are evidence of the way in which the lives of Jews in a German city became ever more difficult as a consequence of growing antisemitism. This is demonstrated in subtle ways by, for example, the copies of Abraham Hirsch's 19th century war record c1935 (-/4); the letters from shops and cafes requesting Jonni Hirsch not to frequent them because the customers do not like it (-/5, -/7, -/15); and the per...

  11. Ludwig Rosenberg collection

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  12. Antisemitism in France: various papers

    This collection consists of miscellaneous papers relating to and reporting on antisemitic organisations in France and Belgium. The organisations represented include: Rassemblement Antijuif de France; Union et Sauvegarde Juive; Centre de Documentation et de Propagande

  14. Copy report re the founding of the Anglo-German fellowship

    Letter from the German embassy, London, to the Auswärtiges Amt, reporting on the founding dinner of the Anglo-German fellowship at the Dorchester Hotel on 28 November 1935, in which the German treatment of the Jewish population was regarded as having cast a shadow over what was otherwise thought to be a successful occasion 

  15. Kate Fielding collection

    The bulk of the collection consists of the personal papers of Kate Fielding née Käthe Lichtenstern. These include vital records and identity papers, various accounts of her life, her poetry and prose, her doctorate and related materials, letters to her family in Vienna sent from London and letters she received, many concerning her relatives captured by the Nazis. In addition there are materials belonging to her sister Edith, father Victor and mother Olga, as well as relatives still on the continent: her grandfather Carl Löw, uncle Hermann Löw, aunt Erna Löw and Erna’s mother Minna Bernstei...

  16. Alfred Danziger: Copy personal papers

    These copy papers document, in part, the life of Alfred Danziger. The copy papers have been annotated with descriptive remarks.

  17. Nazi prosecution of Freemasons on Jersey: copy documents

    These copy papers document Nazi fascination for and persecution of Freemasonry on the island of Jersey, Channel Islands, in the immediate aftermath of the looting of Jersey's Masonic Temple in 1941.

  18. August Wolf collection

    This collection contains mostly the writings of August Berthold Wolf in the form of original Feuilletons, cuttings from German language  newspapers in the 1930s; also diverse draft and sometimes incomplete writings; some correspondence.

  19. Dutch fascist leaflets

    Leaflet of the Nationaal Legioen/Nationaal Arbeidsfront against a strike in the Netherlands. Leaflet of the Verbond Van Dietsche Nationaalsolidaristen (VERDINASO) for a national unity of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

  20. Edith Berliner collection

    Personal papers and correspondence