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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Persecution of Jews in Berlin: Various copy documents

    This collection of copy documents records the experiences of racial persecution of Jews in Berlin. It includes the following: an arrest warrant for Leo Boschwitz, (1935) for the destruction of a copy Der Stürmer (-/1) and his release from Lichtenburg concentration camp in the same year(-/2); a good conduct certificate issued by Camp le Vernet for Kurt Noher (1940) (-/5); detailed instructions issued by the jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin to Regina Montilja prior to her deportation to 'the Protectorate', (1942) (-/7); and pro forma summons to the assembly station at Grosse Hamburger Str...

  2. High court for the British zone in Cologne: Copy appeal judgement against Petersen et al

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This authenticated copy of an appeal court judgement concerns the case of former ship captain, Rudolf Jasper Petersen, and 6 colleagues who are accused of summarily executing a number of the ship's crew for desertion, in the night of 5-6 May 1945. The original verdicts were quashed for all but 2 of the defendants. In addition there is an apparently unrelated copy expert opinion, dated 1946, on the treatment of 'denouncers'

  5. Josef Mengele: Copy papers

    This collection consists of copy papers which document Josef Mengele's early life and career in the SS and also his life in exile in South America.

  6. Otto Löwenstein: Correspondence

    /1-45: This collection of original correspondence from Otto Löwenstein from prison in Hamburg to his wife and child was deposited by his widow via Henry Minden. The letters are written on prison letter forms, designed for ease of purpose, including date of censor's clearance. Information contained within concerns family business and the personal needs of the author. They average one per week

  7. Copy extracts of secret Hungarian documents re British involvement in the history of Hungary

    Die Rolle Grossbritanniens in der Geschichte Ungarns in den Jahren 1937-1945: copy extract reports by Hungarian foreign office officials re the role of Britain in the history of Hungary, 1937-1945This chronological sequence of select reports by Hungarian foreign office officials of meetings and discussions with British foreign office officials and secret service agents sheds some light on the background to relations between the two countries immediately before and during World War II.8 pages

  8. Pavel Novak: copy personal papers

    This collection comprises a school leaving certificate dated 1939, of Risa Elizabeth Novak, Pavel Novak's wife; a certificate from the Jewish Refugees Committee in London about her arrival from Austria in May 1939; and a certificate from a group of Austrian Trade Unionists in Great Britain, confirming the identity of her father and the fact that he was arrested for anti-fascist activities in 1934 and 1938.

  9. Oskar Neumann collection

    Collection of original letters with English translations from Oskar Neumann in Tombelone (?) sent to family in Great Britain. Mention is made of relatives in France and England.

  10. General Pinckvoss et al: Case file re prosecution

    This microfilmed file of correspondence concerns accusations of a relatively minor nature made against General Pinckvoss, Inspekteur des Wehrersatzbezirks, Kassel, and others.

  11. Return of displaced persons at Hamburger Ring Displaced Persons Camp

    Return of displaced persons at Hamburger Ring Displaced Persons CampIt seems to have been annotated by the former commandant of the camp who notes that not all of the inmates are ‘real DPs', having arrived there well before the end of the war.

  12. Copy expert report report re the duty of obedience of SS leaders

    This expert report from Dr. Hans-Günther Seraphim, lecturer of Göttingen University, deals with the implications of refusal by SS officers to comply with orders to execute those regarded as enemies of the state

  14. Jews of Bukowina: Papers re compensation of German Jewish nationals

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documentation contains expert witness testimony concerning the German nationality of Jewish former residents of Bukowina, Rumania/ Ukraine in the context of claims for compensation in post war German trials:Criticism of Martin Broszat's paper (see below) from the United Restitution Organisation, Frankfurt, nd15 pages Frames1-14Copy expert witness testimony by Dr Emilie Kubaschek, for the Verwaltungsgericht der Freien Hansestadt, Bremen, in the case of Dr Wolf Mandel and V...

  15. Bernhard Lösener: statement under oath

    This typescript, annotated, statement by Bernhard Lösener, the former so-called 'racial expert' of the Third Reich, bears the original signature of Bernhard Lösener and is authenticated by the original signature of Walter Speyer, Allied Civilian AGO 20194.

  16. German Post World War Two Radio broadcast transcripts

    German Post World War Two Radio broadcast transcripts 

  17. Miscellaneous material

    Miscellaneous material

  18. Terezin Studio Project: Programme re The Emperor of Atlantis

    This programme was produced for a series of performances of The Emperor of Atlantis by the Terezin Studio Project in Halifax, NS, Canada, 1998. The programme includes a brief history of Terezin, where the opera was composed, a history of the opera, short biographical accounts of Viktor Ullman, the composer, and Petr Kien, the librettist, and an English translation of the text.

  19. Simson Klein collection

    The collection contains Simson's and Mary's letters to each other and to the authorities on the subject of Simson's interment on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien. There are also some digital copies of photographs of the Kleins.

  20. Derek Gordon Cole collection

    The papers in this collection document the activities of Lieutenant Cole as a guard in a POW camp in Rimini, Italy, in 1946 where elements of the 14th Waffen-SS Galizien Division were held captive; and later in Palestine where he was involved in operations to prevent illegal Jewish immigration and anti-terrorist operations.