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Language of Description: English
Country: United Kingdom

  1. Log book of the Rover Scout Crew at Hay Internment Camp, NSW, Australia

    This log book documents the activities of a group of Austrian and German Jewish refugees whilst internees at Hay Internment Camp NSW, Australia. They formed themselves into a group called the Rover Scout Crew whilst on passage to Australia on the infamous 'Dunera Voyage' in July/ August 1940.

  2. Edith Herzer: correspondence re restitution

    The papers in this collection document the compensation claims made by Edith Herzer and her sister Hilde, German Jewish immigrants to Great Britain, whose parents were murdered at Auschwitz. Correspondence from the United Restitution Office in both London and Germany and compensation offices in Germany, along with forms, court decisions and affidavits, reveal the processes involved in claiming compensation for loss of profession, loss of inherited property and suffering caused by the Nazi regime.Correspondence and other papers re the claims of Edith and Hilde Herzer for compensation for los...

  3. Merzbach family documents

    The collection contains letters of condolence from colleagues in the banking world on the death of Wilhelm Merzbach in 1924. In additon there are some original and copy documents dating back to the era of the ghetto and the 'protected Jew'.

  4. Grete Salus: Poems

    This collection of typescript poems was written by Grete Salus during the period of her incarceration in the camps of Terezin, Auschwitz and Oederan.

  5. International Bureau for the Right of Asylum Aid to Political Refugees

    The reports and other papers in this collection concern a proposed international convention on the problem of refugees from Nazi Germany, in France.

  6. Central British Fund: Reports and other papers re orphans

    These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

  7. Reports and other papers re Jewish Social Work conference

    The reports and other papers in this collection relate to the Third International Conference on Social Work which took place in London in July 1936. It was held in conjunction with the International Conference for Jewish Social Work. The collection consists in the main of reports on the situation of Jews in many European countries and the USA.

  8. Julian Lehmann: Various draft articles and other writings

    This collection consists of draft articles and draft fragments of 2 unidentified works [of historical/ fiction?] by Julian Lehmann, a German Jewish journalist and pre-war immigrant to Great Britain. It is not known how many of the articles were published. The articles deal with many aspects of Jewish life and history with particular emphasis on the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish figures. Most of them range in length from approximately 2 to 8 pages- except for the drafts of the book-length works.

  9. International Refugee Organization, Bad Kissingen: reports

    These papers consist of information sheets; administrative and provisional orders; and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.

  10. Account of life in a ghetto

    This typescript copy account of life in an unidentified ghetto commences with a note in English that the letter extracts were received in New York from Switzerland. It is also headed ‘strictly confidential, for your personal information only' and annotated with the date May 1942.

  11. Personal account by Louis Lustig

    Personal account by Louis Lustig of his arrest for treason in March 1938 and his subsequent imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration campGerman 2 pagesThis personal account of life in Sachsenhausen was addressed to a Mrs Kerr in Johannesburg. The memoir is prefaced with the caveat that details of the author's experiences have been forgotten because after the imprisonment he deliberately tried to put the episode out of his mind. He describes himself as 82 years old at the time of writing.

  12. Kurt Ferber: personal papers

    This collection, comprises a set of correspondence between Kurt Ferber and a friend in Berlin; material relating to the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur; miscellaneous contemporary newspapers and cuttings; and unidentified notes. The correspondence is of particular interest for it provides a fascinating insight into the mentalities of 2 ordinary German citizens with special reference to their political and cultural interests. The provenance of the material is not known. Nor is anything known about the history of its custody prior to deposit. Olga Bruewitsch-Heuss' political stance is made clea...

  13. Gerda Nabe: School project

    This original school project documents a year of Hitler's rule in a series of compositions illustrated by photographs from newspapers and drawings. Produced by Gerda Nabe in 1935, it demonstrates the extent to which devotion to the nazi party and to its leader permeated German society, even to the level of school children. The project begins by reporting the elections in Saarland, when the residents chose to revert back to Germany again and provides a history of the region and its people. It goes on to commemorate the deaths of fallen nazi 'heroes'. It then marks the date that Hitler became...

  14. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien: various papers

    The original papers in this collection document the activities of the representative organization of the Jewish cultural community in Vienna in 1939. Also included in the deposit and now housed in the Wiener Library 'Special Collections' are an original Jewish tram pass issued to Berta Brand and 2 pieces of 'Jude' badges.Correspondence and papers of the head office of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Wien including correspondence and statements from the housing and emigration departments of the IKW, which provide biographical details of Jews who have suffered persecution under the Nazis an...

  15. Gertrud Wilmersdörfer: copy papers

    This collection of copy papers document in part Gertrud Wilmersdörfer's pre war anti-nazi activities; the experiences of a former French Resistance colleague, Alexandre Morgune, and conditions in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

  16. Correspondence re the history of Jews in Poland

    Correspondence re the history of Jews in Poland with special reference to the blood libels of Tarnobrzeg and the 1946 Kielce pogrom. Also included is a copy translation of the historical files of TarnobrzegThis collection of copy correspondence between Michael Honey, a Polish born Jew, and a number of correspondents, deals with Polish antisemitism with special reference to the blood libels of Tarnobrzeg and the 1946 Kielce pogrom.

  18. Copy letter from Austrian soldier re wartime exploits

    The letter, amongst other things, describes the systematic murder carried out by the Wehrmacht in Poland, and in particular the murder of civilians by the author's unit. The author also mentions the murder of a number of their own officers by the rank and file.

  19. Account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience

    Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in BerlinGerman 30 pages 

  20. Various eyewitness accounts

    This miscellaneous collection of eyewitness accounts, detailing anti-Semitic persecution by the nazis probably form part of the several hundred testimonies gathered in the mid- 1950s by the Wiener Library, most of which now belong in the Wiener Library 'P Series'. In fact the first item (1267/1) is an account signed 'Li. Z.' of this project, dated 14 May 1956. It is possible that the reason why the accounts in this collection were never included in the 'P Series' is that so many of them are incomplete and/ or without author.