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  1. Löbl family papers

    This collection contains correspondence from the parents of Robert Löbl concerned with his safe custody in the UK. Also contained are photographs of Robert and printouts of Pages of Testimony from Yad Vashem Shoah Victims’ Database. 

  2. Reports and other papers pertaining to refugees in Shanghai

    This collection comprises reports about the fate of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War Two; eyewitness statements of individual Jewish refugees; personal papers of Ernst Platz, former Jewish refugee in Shanghai; correspondence regarding documents relating to the Shanghai Jewish refugee experience

  3. Kristallnacht: Miscellaneous extracts and articles

    This collection consists of manuscript and typescript extracts of contemporary newspaper articles about Reichskristallnacht, and unidentified letters and notes about the same. It appears to be an artificial collection.

  5. Hashoah Ve'hagvura book of remembrance

    This unbound volume was produced by Yad Vashem in 1966 to mark remembrance day for the Holocaust and Heroism, and was designed for use in schools. It contains photographs depicting the rise of Nazism; the destruction and desecration of synagogues in Vienna, 1938; the Warsaw Ghetto; Yellow Stars; Lodz; Dachau; partisans and the Jewish Brigade.

  6. Article re Jewish public servants, Frankfurt

    This article provides short biographical sketches on some of the more well known Jewish public figures in Frankfurt am Main from the early 19th to the 20th centuries. Included are personalities from the fields of commerce, politics, social reform, the arts and science.

  7. Hans Kroker: papers re law suit

    This collection contains papers concerning a threatened law suit which arose out of an assertion made in the famous TV programme Holocaust, which was broadcast in Germany in 1979. In particular, Hans Kroker, a former SS member, refutes the assertion made by one of the programme's participants that the family of this person was murdered in gas chambers, claiming that, without proof, it amounted to a vicious slur on the SS. The papers include a news magazine cutting with details of the story; a copy letter from Hans Kroker's lawyer, Eberhard Engelhardt, to the person who uttered the alleged s...

  8. Letter from Lina Wagner-Tauber to the Jewish Community Council, Berlin

    Letter from a former employee of the council of the Jewish community in Berlin who writes from Tel Aviv, reporting on conditions there, with emphasis on the experience of German Jewish emigrés like herself.

  9. Rechtsverwaltung to Obersten Reichsbehörden: Letter re behaviour of servicemen

    Copy letter signed by Puttkammer from the Reichsverwaltung to the Obersten Reichsbehörden re the behaviour of servicemen 

  10. Ernst Kaltenbrünner: Copy letter re Gräfin Lankorska

    Copy letter from Ernst Kaltenbrünner re the release of Gräfin Lanskorska from protective custody 

  11. Copy papers re fascism in Great Britain

    Copy papers from the Cabinet Office re fascism in Great BritainThis is a collection of copy documents, the originals of which are held at the National Archives

  12. 'Remembering the Future' opening address

    This collection contains a transcript of the opening address delivered by Elizabeth Maxwell on the occasion of the 22nd Annual Scholars' Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, 1 March 1992.

  16. United Restitution Office: Copy correspondence

    This collection consists of copy correspondence between former employees of the United Restitution Office at their branches in Paris and London.

  17. Gertrude Tausinger: family papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital materialThis collection contains the family papers of Gertrud Tausinger, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated with her husband to the UK via Prague in 1939. The couple's business and that of her parents were seized shortly after Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich and they were forced to emigrate. Personal papers including birth, baptism, marriage and death certificates; passports, "Heimatschein", ID and membership cards; tax clearance certificate; "Abstammungsnachweis" certificate; alien registration c...

  18. Arbeitsgemeischaft fuer Wehrgeistige Forschung e.V

    Arbeitsgemeischaft fuer Wehrgeistige Forschung e.V: Information leaflet 

  20. Richard Meyer collection

    Correspondence and other papers