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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Adolf Eichmann Trial: Transcripts and other papers

    This document collection contains two separate archival fonds. The Eichmann trial papers include verbatim transcripts of the trial proceedings and of the Eichmann appeal proceedings. They are copies of simultaneous translations and as such may not be completely accurate. Full transcripts of the trial and appeal proceedings are at 621/1-2. Incomplete copies of the same are at 621/4-5. The copies, translations and transcriptions of mainly Nuremberg documents which are evidence of Eichmann's involvement in the extermination of European Jewry at 621/3 were deposited by the Institute of Jewish A...

  2. Brody-Pauncz family papers

    The papers in this collection document the lives of a Hungarian Jewish family which managed to survive the Holocaust thanks, in large part, to the efforts of the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg. Of particular interest is material relating to Nazi persecution at 627/4 and 627/5. There is evidence of a relationship with Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of some 90,000 Jews in Hungary. George Brody was made a manager of one of the properties bought by the Swedish government in Budapest to give protection to Jewish citizens.This collection also contains material on t...

  3. Mrs Ben Courts née Ella Mayer: Personal papers

    This collection of personal papers, mostly correspondence, of Mrs Ben Courts (née Ella Mayer) sheds some light on the conditions of Jews in Germany in the immediate pre-war years and the processes involved in escaping to England. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence from friends and family members in Germany about whom very little is known.

  4. Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent: Records

    The documents in this collection offer an insight into the day to day lives of the inmates of the Kitchener Camp for refugees near Sandwich at Richborough, Kent in 1939. This collection comprises 4 separate deposits. The core material was deposited by Phineas May in October 1987 (Accession numbers 54096-54102) when he was Honorary Custodian of the Jewish Museum at Bloomsbury House. He also deposited the entertainments licence at 644/5 in May 1988. In addition Peter Mansbacher, a former inmate of the camp, deposited some material which includes a brief autobiographical sketch at 644/7 and me...

  5. Charlotte Lewin: Personal and family papers and correspondence

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  6. Michael Zylberberg: Personal papers

    This collection consists of the writings, correspondence and personal papers of Michael Zylberberg, journalist, and survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. This collection contains many of his published and draft articles, along with some correspondence and other papers including autobiographical notes.

  7. Thomas Cook and Son Ltd: Storage record book

    This storage record book of Thomas Cook's Lisbon depot, is thought to be significant because it apparently contains the names of many Jews who left possessions during the years 1942-1943, much of which remained unclaimed, and was presumably disposed of by Thomas Cook staff in due course. The following notes were supplied by the depositor, who was (in 1977-1978) the Thomas Cook General Manager for Europe and who retrieved the volume from the Lisbon office of Thomas Cook

  8. Antisemitism in Argentina: various papers

    These papers document, in part, the activities of a number of Jewish and anti-racist organisations in Argentina during the 1930s. The following organisations are represented:Delegacíon de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas- Originally called the Comite contra el Racismo y el Antisemitismo de la Argentina, this umbrella organisation was founded in July 1935 for all important Jewish bodies in Argentina apart from the communists.Hilfsverein Deutschsprechender Juden- founded by seven members of the German Jewish immigrant community of Buenos Aires who had been ostracized by Buenos Aires' non-Je...

  9. Jews in Salonika: copy list of shop owners

    This apparently complete (copy) list of Jewish shop owners in Salonika, 1943, came to light as a result of investigations into Kurt Waldheim's role during the Second World War. The Greek Ministry of Justice offered the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece all the files of the former office for the Distribution of Jewish Property, set up by the occupation authorities in 1943. The list comprises the names of shop keepers, their addresses and the nature of their businesses.

  10. Brand family: correspondence

    This collection of original correspondence from members of the Brand family in Vienna to Max Brand in England dates mostly from the period of Max's arrival in England shortly before the outbreak of war until the deportation of the Brand family to the death camps.

  11. Letter from SS Oberreiter Emmerich

    This letter, written by a member of a Waffen SS Veterinär Ersatzkompanie in Radan, Poland, offers a rare insight into the experiences of a rank and file member of an SS company. The letter is particularly noteworthy for the way in which the author expresses regret for having missed taking part in an action in which 3 Polish villages were raided and a great number of Poles were shot. Unfortunately the location of Radan is not known. It is therefore not possible to place the letter in its precise historical context.The letter is written in Sütterlin script.

  12. Papers re 'Gerechtigkeit', an Austrian anti-Nazi publication

    The collection consists of 4 letters from the offices of the publishers of Gerechtigkeit, an Austrian anti-racist publication. In addition there is an apparently unrelated note about the Austrian Office, a body supported by the bulk of Austrian liberals, Austrian legitimists and some Austrian socialists. The letters in this collection are also evidence of the organisers' desire to create an international anti-nazi movement. Moritz Zalman, responds to a letter at 735/1, because his colleague, Irene Harand is in Poland. The letter itself is addressed to a professor in Amsterdam. The letter at...

  13. Jessie Nicholson: correspondence

    This collection of a correspondence consists mostly of letters written by a school teacher, Hellmut Lange from Chemnitz, Saxony, to an English woman, Miss Jessie Nicholson in South London between 1933 and August 1939. Whilst precious little is known about the recipient of the letters, they provide a valuable insight into the mentality of an ordinary German whose nationalist and antisemitic leanings develop into full-blown Nazi sympathy by the outbreak of war.It is evident from the first letter that they had communicated previously and that judging from the familiar tone of the correspondenc...

  14. Otto Bendix: letter to wife

    This original farewell note (with transcription) documents the last moments of Otto Bendix' life in Berlin prior to deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942.

  15. Regent's Park School: copy documentation

    Copy documentation regarding Regent's Park School, London NW3.

  16. Otto Ernst Remer: copy report

    Copy manuscript account apparently by Major General Otto Ernst Remer about his activities on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. The document is dated 2 April 1946. It is possible that the account was written whilst Remer was in custody during the period of de-nazification after the war. A note states that the first two pages were missing and that these had been supplied at a later date by a different depositor (G. Fleming).

  17. Bing family: papers

    This collection comprises four separate deposits of material regarding different members of the same family.The first deposit (867/1) consists of copies of 3 letters written by a woman in a collection centre (Sammlunglager) in Berlin in June 1943. She was subsequently deported to Auschwitz where she almost certainly died. The letters are significant because they offer a rare insight into conditions in such an establishment and document the growing level of despair amongst those who were transported. In the final letter she seems certain of her fate- that theirs will be the last “Polentransp...

  18. Klara Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    Copy correspondence from a German Jewish woman inmate of a number of French concentration camps. Klara Rosenzweig, the author of the correspondence, writes to her children and husband, who reside in Scotland, describing conditions in the camps etc.

  19. 'Memories of Douglas: Isle of Man' by Hugo Rosenstock

    This collection consists of two items: an original illustrated account of life as an internee of an internment camp on Douglas, isle of Man, 1940-1941 and an undated typescript family history by another family member. The first item comprises a series of individual sketches of camp life mostly in verse form, which have subsequently been bound together and foliated. A contents page, though no introduction completes the volume.

  20. Werner Rüdenberg: correspondence

    The correspondence consists of bundles which contain carbon copy letters of Werner and Anni Rüdenberg arranged chronologically by date of authorship with original letters from the respective correspondents by date of receipt. This is a relatively large collection of correspondence, a much of which covers Germany during the Nazi period. Yet, according to a sample reading, it appears that very little, if any, of the content documents the experiences of this Jewish family under the Nazis. It seems to be concerned overwhelmingly with the affairs of the family and friends and the experiences of ...