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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Papers re Dr Otto Ernst Schueddekopf of the Hielscher Group

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection consists of affidavits and other statements by former members of the 'Hielscher Group', an anti-Nazi resistance group, in support of another member, Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf, with regard to post-war court proceedings. The statements provide useful information on the workings of the Hielscher group, supplemented by a deposition from Friedrich Hielscher, himself

  2. Dr Bela Berend: Trial Judgement and other papers

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access the digital version of this archiveThis collection contains the personal papers of Dr A.B. Belton, formerly Bela Berend, Rabbi of the Budapest Ghetto, 1944. The papers document, in part, his activities in Hungary during the war; his trial by the Hungarian authorities for war crimes; his involvement with post war libel cases relating to his role as leader of the Jewish Council in Budapest, 1944; his relationship with prominent figures in the United States; his views about Israel and politics in the Middle East.According to a no...

  3. Jewish Refugees Committee, Leeds: Correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm archive of correspondence and papers was created by the Leeds office of the Jewish Refugee Committee. Most of the correspondence is either addressed to David Makovski or written by him. The overwhelming majority of letters in this collection relate to the fate of individual refugees.

  4. Das Laterndl: Various papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of programmes, reviews, photographs, etc relates to "Das Laterndl", the London-based, Austrian exile, anti-Nazi theatre. Also included in the collection is material relating to the life and work of Jura Soyfer, a young Austrian communist party member who was recognised as leading social commentator in the 1930s and who was arrested after the Austrian Anschluss in 1938 and died in Buchenwald in 1939.

  5. Charles Singer: Correspondence re victimisation of academics in Nazi Germany

    This microfilm collection of correspondence documents the concerns of the distinguished academic, Charles Singer and colleagues, in relation to the restrictions on academic freedom in Nazi Germany and in particular the discrimination against non-aryan professors during the Heidelberg University Jubilee celebrations, 1935.

  6. Third Reich: Personal accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection comprises two deposits whose relationship to each other is not known. The first consists of correspondence and reports concerning participants in two famous acts of protest during the Third Reich: the Rosenstrasse Protest in which the (mostly) Aryan partners of a specially segregated group of Jewish prisoners protested at their detention by the Nazis in a former welfare office for the Jewish community in Berlin, 1943; Das Sovjet-Paradies Aktion in which 500 Jews and Germans were arres...

  7. German Jewish representative organisations: documents re the creation of a national representative

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Collection of mimeographed documents relating primarily to the activities of the Reichsvertretung der jüdischen Landesverbände. The papers consist of minutes of meetings regarding a proposed constitution for a German Jewish representative organisation and records of meetings of regional Jewish organisations such as the Preussischer Landesverband jüdischer Gemeinden. The end date coincides with the founding of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, in 1933, the first German Jewish organisation trul...

  8. Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Original and mimeographed documents of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland. Also included within 602/8 is a file of transcribed correspondence regarding Gross-Breesen, a non-zionist training camp set up by the Reichsvertretung to prepare young people for life abroad (not Palestine).The papers include committee minutes, reports, memoranda, circulars and correspondence detailing all aspects of the organisations activities.

  9. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: Reports and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Original and mimeographed documents relating to the foundation of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland

  10. Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland: Correspondence with the Council for German Jewry

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.The material consists mainly of emigration arrangements for German Jews, includes original letters from Dr. Leo Baeck and Otto Hirsch. Folders 606/3-7 contain correspondence re the possibility of emigration to Kenya.

  11. Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland: Correspondence with the Council of German Jewry

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  12. Council for German Jewry: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection consists of correspondence of the Council for German Jewry on the following subjects: dismissals of Jewish staff at Göttingen University (608/1); Austrian Jewish refugees from the Burgenland; various synagogue congregations in Germany (608/2); emergency relief organisation for German scientists abroad (608/3). Also a report by the Jewish Agency for Palestine re emigration, 1933-1934 (608/4)

  13. Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten: Correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Most of the papers in this collection relate to the activities of the Westdeutscher Landessportverband which was affiliated to the Sportbund im Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten, consisting of correspondence and circulars, detailing the activities of the organisation, and shedding some light on the relationship with other bodies such as the Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland and the Deutscher Makkabikreis

  14. Material relating to the persecution of the Gypsies under the Nazis

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  15. Komitee Ehemaliger Politischer Gefangener: Reports and statistics about concentration camps and other papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection consists of original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau. There are other papers covering such topics as political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany. The material was collated and produced by an organisation called the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener.

  17. Dr George F.J. Bergmann: Diaries and personal papers

    Amongst the papers in this collection are a set of typescript transcripts of his diaries which document in detail his experiences in the Foreign Legion and in prison. They also provide a full report on the infamous trial of French officers and guards at Hadjerat M'Guil.

  18. Fritz Goldschmidt: Diaries and eyewitness testimony

    This collection consists of a 288 page manuscript diary and a 71 page personal account, both of which provide valuable evidence for the persecution of German Jewry in the Third Reich.

  19. Walter Rauff: Personal papers and material documenting his war time activities

    The papers in this collection are part of the background material which was used by John Ware for his documentary ‘Colonel Rauff's Refuge', Granada, World in Action, 8.8.1983, 8.30 pm.

  20. Fritz Gross: Unpublished writings

    The papers in this collection are evidence of the eclectic interests and significant output of the Austrian emigré writer, Fritz Gross. These volumes of original typescript writings include numerous short dramas; anthologies of poetry; essays on a wide variety of subjects and biographical sketches of famous people.