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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  3. Mayor of Nuremberg: notice to Council officers

    Typescript notice from the mayor of Nuremberg instructing council officials to ensure that they always use correct German, ie free from foreign influenceThese instructions issued by the mayor of Nuremberg to the city's council officials reflect the Nazi preoccupation with maintaining the supposed purity of the German language. The last paragraph strongly urges individuals, professions, businesses etc to be described in terms of their ethnicity; they are either German or Jewish. They can not therefore be described as being Christian since the latter does not define ethnicity.

  4. Neues Leben: Miscellaneous papers

    Papers of the organization Neues Leben including a membership list, 1934; article on its foundation; and miscellaneous papers

  5. Report re Westerbork concentration camp, Holland

    This collection consists of a typescript, annotated (possibly) original report into conditions at Westerbork Concentration camp, entitled Kollektive Arbeit einer Widerstandsgruppe, apparently produced by member(s) of the 'Widerstandsgruppe' a typescript copy of the same; and correspondence between the Alfred Wiener and Professor David Cohen, Amsterdam relating to the above. The associated correspondence questions the reliability of the report. The report is critical, amongst others, of Professor Cohen, who had something to with the camp, and who subsequently wrote a book about the camp.

  6. Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife

    Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife during the Nazi era including an account of their experiences in their home town of Dürkheim, Württemberg, in 1933, when the Nazis came to power; 1934 at the time of the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Kristallnacht; conditions in Gurs Concentration Camp, Pyrenees, France; conditions in Camp du Recebedon, near Toulouse and a slave labour camp in Villemur, FranceGerman 15 pages 

  7. Josef Weisz: copy papers

    They consist of statements and correspondence of Josef Weisz relating to the time he spent as an inmate in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen concentration camps.

  8. Copy correspondence re post war Jewish Relief

    Copy correspondence between the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad re the provision of relief parcels for non-Jewish Hamburg residentsEnglish 2 items 

  9. August Grüber: report re Dachau

    Report of conditions in Dachau concentration camp, giving a classification of prisoners in the camp also including mention of cabaret evenings replete with reference to jokes about conditions.German 1 page 

  10. Personal papers of Helga Lewin (née Krebs) relating to her compensation claims

    The papers in this collection document the attempts made by Helga Lewin to gain compensation for suffering caused by the Nazi regime. They include settlements and decisions made by the Entschädigungsamt, Berlin and the Berlin district court along with affidavits and numerous expert witness statements.

  11. Copy correspondence from girl re life in Vienna

    They are mirror image typescript mimeographed transcriptions, the majority of which are copy letters from Leni, the 12 year old girl. In addition to the above there is an (apparently unrelated) unidentified mirror image mimeographed manuscript memo re tax allowances.

  12. Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit: Organisational papers

    This collection of papers documenting the activities of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit, the former's operational arm, consists of numerous separate deposits, the details of which were never recorded. Of particular interest are the following: a volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries; and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration camp inmates.The original order in which the collections were listed has been retained.

  14. Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: Archives

    This collection is held at the Wiener Library on microfilm.

  15. NSDAP Main Archive

    The Hauptarchiv was set up primarily as a depository for source material on which historians of the future would draw to write the history of the party. Its emphasis, therefore, lay on the years between 1919 and 1933. Material going back as far as 1890 was collected, however, to encompass the political and ideological forerunners of National Socialism, and although the spotlight was on the party itself, considerable importance was attached to parallel nationalist “voelkisch” movements and political opponents – for example, the entire files of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei were taken ove...

  16. World Jewish Congress: Central files

    Central Files consists of 103 boxes (41.2 linear feet) containing history of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), especially prior to 1940. The series includes correspondence and miscellaneous other materials of WJC leaders, together with minutes and records of conferences and committee meetings. The series name, “Central Files”, was adopted from an existing WJC series consisting of executive files and records from conferences and committees. Central Files includes material unrelated to any one specific department. For more material on specific departments see Series B through G.Spanning the ye...

  17. International Committee of the Red Cross: G59 Israelites

    This collection is a microfilm copy of material owned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (G59). The creator was the Commission des Prisoniers, Internés et Civils (Commission PIC) The records pertain to the fate of European Jewry predominantly during the Nazi era. There follows an overview of the 13 sub-series with the original reference number, title and current microfilm reel number.\ G59/0: Dossiers Bachmann, Livre blanc, Exo (Extrème-Orient) 1942-1946, 4 bundles Reel 2This sub-series was created outside the original framework and retrospectively attributed to G59. Most of t...

  18. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    This finding aid is the result of a stage-by-stage series of arranging and indexing processes which could only be completed as recently as 1989.The collection “Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland” is a fragmentary sub-collection (18 shelf meters) covering the years 1939 - 1945. Some of the files date back to the early thirties: the so-called “Vorakten” (background files) by attorneys and by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung wirtschaftlicher Interessen von in Deutschland wohnhaften oder wohnhaft gewesenen Juden GmbH“/FWI (Association for assistance in financial matters of Jews residing i...

  19. Reichskulturkammer Generalkartei (Reich Chamber of Culture: General Index)

    A1-A123: A microfilm copy of the central registry of membership of the Reichskulturkammer (RKK), 1930s-1940s, arranged alphabetically by individual surname. Originally maintained by the personnel section of the RKK, index cards have been supplemented by entries made by Allied occupation authorities. For each individual, one or more cards provide: name and address, birthdate and place, profession, RKK membership data and notations regarding political reliability and racial background. Also included in some instances are annotations from the Allied occupation authorities on denazifi...

  20. Lady Rose Henriques Archive

    The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.