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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Report entitled league of Nations and racial persecution in Germany

    Typescript report entitled The League of Nations and Racial Persecution in Germany, designated ‘Strictly Confidential- not to be communicated' with the following sub-headings: ‘International representation against persecution before the foundation of the league'; ‘Position since the foundation of the league'; ‘Position of minorities in Germany'; ‘Possibility of Action under the covenant'; ‘Procedure before the League'; ‘Importance of action'English 6 pages 

  3. Czech and Czech Jewish immigrants in Great Britain: various documents

    Material which documents some of the activities of organisations in Great Britain which were involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era.

  4. Reports by a German professor of experiences at universities of Giessen and Bonn

    These reports detail the academic career of Professor Paul Ernst Kahle at Giessen University, 1914-1923 and at Bonn University, 1933-1939.

  5. Captain Perry: copy personal papers

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers of Captain P. J. C. Perry of the British Control Commission, sector Berlin, documents in part his role and activities as a member of the British military authorities in Berlin in the immediate post-war period. He is variously described as the nutrition officer of the nutrition and agriculture department of the military authority; Commander for the admission of motor vehicles; and ‘Herrn Keppenperie' (964/4).

  6. Henny Levin family papers

    Kurt Steiner papers (1867/1) including Jewish passport, birth, marriage, death, school and naturalisation certificates, 1927-1966; Ilse Steiner papers (1867/2) including birth and marriage certificates, war time correspondence with mother, restitution claim material, passport and will 1938-1963; Richard Steiner papers (1867/3) including birth certificate, Familien Stammbuch, residency permit, WWI Iron Cross citation, 1884-1939; Else Steiner papers (1867/4) including birth certificate, residency permit, marriage certificate, naturalisation certificate, death certificate,1911-1983; Beatrice L...

  7. Raphael Lemkin papers

    This collection of Raphael Lemkin's papers documents his intense interest in the subject of genocide. The originals are held at the New York Public Library, from which the text of the following catalogue was obtained. The papers largely document Lemkin's intense interest in the subject of genocide. With the exception of a draft of his autobiography, Unofficial Man, the collection contains very little personal material. The correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, with public officials, newspapers, academics, and religious groups. It relates to Lemkin's struggle for support for the rati...

  8. Constantine Fitzgibbon's 'Denazification': Working papers

    These papers were apparently generated during the course of Constantine Fitzgibbon's research for his book Denazification, Michael Joseph, London, 1969.

  9. Ernst Fraenkel: De-nazification notice

    De-nazification notice in the form of a postcard from the “Hessisches Staatministerium. Minister für politische Befreiung … Frankfurt-Main” addressed to Mr. Fraenkel (born 5.4.1891) in Frankfurt. 

  12. Regensburger family papers

    This collection of papers concerns the experiences of a German Jewish family which settled in Great Britain in 1939. Correspondence and personal papers of Resi Regensburg re naturalization, the possibility of voluntary work, restrictions for aliens and the remittance of money abroad

  13. Harry Ralton collection

    The archive contains the personal and business papers of Harry Ralton. The latter concern Harry’s firm the Arcadia Music Publishing Co. There is also an extensive collection of his sheet music published in interwar Germany and in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition there are two folders of letters addressing Harry’s attempts to help his mother escape Germany, Harry's life and career in the UK, post-war conditions and the fates of friends under the Nazis. Prominent correspondents include Herbert Sandberg, Harry’s cousin and conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera, and the journalist and...

  16. Eugen Gerstenmaier: Copy documents re church-state struggle

    This microfilm collection of documentation comprises correspondence and papers detailing the activities of the German Evangelical church during the Third Reich, in particular the role of Eugen Gerstenmaier. Also included are a number of periodicals of German Evangelical organisations during the 1930s and other related reports and papers.

  18. Dann family papers and the records of Bulldogs Bank

    This collection comprises two separate, though linked, archival fonds. The papers at 1070/1-4 record the lives of the Dann family, a renowned Augsburg Jewish family. Documents relating to Sophie and Gertrud Dann, the depositors of this collection, feature most prominently.At 1070/5 are papers which document the history and activities of the Hamstead Nursery and Bulldog Bank. For an account of the sisters' work there see some of the autobiographical accounts in the personal papers of Sophie Dann at 1070/3.

  19. Jewish community, Stuttgart: commemorative material

    This collection of leaflets and other printed material concerns the activities of the Jewish community in Stuttgart and that of the 'Gesellschaft fuer Christlich-Juedische Zusammenarbeit, Stuttgart'

  20. Reichsjugendführer: regulations re youth service of Jewish Mischlinge

    The document is evidence of the problem that the Nazis had with treating Germans of mixed Jewish parentage, in particular what to do with Mischlinge 1 Grades (with 2 Jewish grandparents) who had already been serving in the Jugenddienst. Whilst the latter group were now regarded as having an unacceptable level of Jewish blood, many had already served the Third Reich and many more were due to once they reached the right age. The solution was apparently to create an intermediate stage in which Mischlinge 1 Grades were to be put on permanent standby (Bereitstellung) but would never actually be ...