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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  2. Sir Frederick G. Kenyon: Correspondence re persecuted academics in Germany

    This correspondence of Sir Frederick G. Kenyon, a British academic, addresses the problem of the persecution of academics in Germany by suggesting ways of assisting them and raising awareness about their plight.

  5. Drielsma: family documents

    Readers need to reserve a termnal in the reading room to access this digital content.Drielsma: family documents also including correspondence and photographs

  7. U.S.A.: attitudes to Germany and Antisemitism

    These three separate documents shed some light on American attitudes to Germany and antisemitism.

  10. German Confessional Church: Instructions re racial origins

    This copy correspondence of the directorate of the German Confessional Church was sent to Alfred Wiener from Pastor Niemoeller with a letter dated 9 September 1957 (1273/3).

  11. Karl Loewenstein collection

    This collection consists of some personal papers of Karl Loewenstein, controversial former head of the security apparatus at Theresienstadt. The papers include an unpublished account of his time in Theresienstadt; sundry related documents and correspondence from and about his time in Theresienstadt. There are apparently two copies of the report entitled Aus der Hölle Minsk in das Paradies Theresienstadt. One deposited here at the Wiener Library in 1956 via HG Adler, also former inmate of Theresienstadt, and author of the still definitive history of the ghetto. The other is deposited with th...

  12. Reports on South America as a haven for refugees from Nazi Germany

    This collection of reports focuses on South America as a haven for German Jewish emigration. According to the editor's introduction they were published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc. with a view to being published in various (unspecified) newspapers. This particular edition was presumably written for the American market, since the reports are in English and are printed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which was, by then, based in New York.The reports cover Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and discuss the climate, geography, demographics and politics of each country. The first 3 reports...

  13. Diary and other writings of ordinary German women

    This collection consists of two unrelated items, both of which document the sympathetic attitudes of two ordinary German women to the Nazis and their Führer.

  15. Yom Hashoah: publicity material

    Yom Hashoah: publicity material 

  17. Josef (Sepp) Dietrich and Michael Lippert: Copy Trial verdict

    Josef (Sepp) Dietrich and Michael Lippert: Copy trial verdict 

  18. Miscellaneous Jewish publications

    It includes material from the Maccabi World Union based in Museum Street, London WC1 and the Joint Committee for Religious Education and Welfare.

  19. Copy article re Terezin

    Copy article entitled Das ‘Musterghetto' Theresienstadt in which the author provides some historical background to the camp and describes life as an inmateGerman 2 pages 

  20. Letter addressed to the Jewish Central Information Office

    Letter addressed to the Jewish Central Information Office from Hans Grabowski of the Jüdische Gemeinde, Herford, detailing the fate of the town's Jewish communityGerman