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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  2. Appeal for Jewish Displaced Persons

    These 2 identical cards are signed 'Rothschild' and contain an appeal for assistance on one side, and a joke reprinted from the Evening Standard on the other.

  3. Statements re war crimes

    Statements re war crimes 

  5. W.P. Jaspert: account of an anti-nazi family

    This collection originally constsisted just of the 2 page account of a anti-Nazi family, described below. Since then more material has been donated to the library: namely an autobiographical account by the depositor and an article on German, non-Jewish anti-Nazis by the depositor's son. These will be catalogued in the main library catalogue. There are also some anti- Nazi propaganda leaflets

  6. Centre de Documentantation Juive Contemporaine: selected set of copy documents depicting the Holocaust

    Set of copy docs entitled '10 documents de la deportation', Paris 1991

  7. Interviews with German generals - not dated

    This undated copy typescript account was apparently written by a German female stenographer working in Paris for the US Historical section. Her narrative describes visits to 'Le Petit Chesnay' and later Hennemont Castle where German generals (eg von Lüttwitz, Schramm, Bayerlein) were held captive. She describes the atmosphere and gives an account of Schramm's report.

  9. Various family documents

    This collection actually consists of 3 unrelated collections, which were brought together for no obvious reason, the 4 other collections which made up the original, having since been dispersed. 574c is a deposit of various papers from N. J. Lamont re the French Foreign Legion.

  10. Socialist Vanguard Group: 5 issues of Commentary

    Issue Nos 26, 28, 29,30, 31of Commentary, produced by the Socialist VanguardEnglish 

  11. Siegfried Thalheimer: Personal papers

    The collection consists of Siegfried Thalheimer's published and unpublished writing, including memoirs and articles on German and Jewish politics and identity. There is also correspondence on the journals Thalheimer founded (Ordo and Westland) as well as with Sigmund Hirschfeld.

  12. The history of the Jewish community of Gleiwitz

    This account of the history of the Jewish community in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, during the Nazi era bears the original reference P.II.a. No.850 indicating that it was originally intended to be included in the Wiener Library eyewitness testimony series. In fact another account by the same author with slight variations already exists within this series bearing the reference P.II.a No.90. The report commences with an overview of the Jewish community in Gleiwitz replete with statistics. It then proceeds to detail the affects of increasing antisemitic measures, providing information on the fate ...

  13. Anti-fascist leaflet

    This anti-fascist leaflet entitled Fascism again in 1948 was written and published by Frederic Mullally against democratic tolerance of new fascist movements in Britain after WW II.

  15. Zigmunt Tonecki: various papers

    Miscellaneous collection of papers relating to the work of Zigmunt Tonecki, an expert on Soviet theatre, including a manuscript collection of essays by him using the pseudonym S. Tone, replete with photographs of Russian dramatists et al. 

  16. Gestapo Sonderkommando, Lehrter Strasse Prison: Admissions book

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilmed copy document was produced when the original was still at the Royal United Service Institution, London. It is now at the Imperial War Museum.A note which precedes the list, dated 19 July 1945, from the director of the Lehrterstrasse prison, after it was taken over by the British Military authorities, states that he found the list and that it contains the names of those allegedly involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. He also states that those who were transported to...

  18. Walter and Helene Simon: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers and correspondence of members of the extended family of Alice Burgar née Rockwell: mainly correspondence between her mother and father and her paternal grandparents in Berlin, Walter and Helene Simon. Also contained are personal documents of Alice's paternal grandfather and his mother, Clara Simon. In addition there is a folder of correspondence and papers from Alice's uncle, Stefan Helmut Simon, dated immediate post war.