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Country: United Kingdom

  1. British National party: leaflets

    Leaflets from the London and Kent area, contains appeal against a planned mosque in LondonEnglish 

  3. 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...

  4. Bronia Veitch: copy papers re Jewish children in Belgium

    This collection of copy documents consists of alphabetical lists of Jewish children in hiding and their guardians in Belgium, 1940-1945. They were created by the Comité de defense de Juifs.

  5. Brückner family: Certificates

    Birth, marriage and death certificates for Brückner family

  6. Brussels Relief Committee: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfim collection of miscellaneous reports and papers documents the fate of Belgian Jewry during WWII.Belgian Information Center: Information regarding radio broadcasts on 16 and 17 July 1942, frames 1-6American Joint Distribution Committee publication: Liste des Israelites liberés de Camps d'Allemagne et arrives en Belgique, 31 July 1946, frames 7-27Typed extract from the 'Bulletin d'information No. 3 du conseil des Association Juives de Belgique': Manifestation Publique de Reconnaissance au ...

  7. The Buchenwald camp song papers

    The papers in this collection pertain to a competition organised by the depositor to create the best English translation of a poem originally written in German concerning life in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  8. Buchenwald release permit

    This copy/ translation of a release permit from Buchenwald concentration camp pertains to Erich Marmorek, born Vienna, 1907.

  10. Buchenwald: Miscellaneous documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access the digital version of this archive.This is a microfilm collection of original records of and about Buchenwald concentration camp.

  11. Buchwald family: papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Buchwald family, Jewish refugees from Bratislava who emigrated in 1939 to escape Nazi persecutions.Family papers including correspondence with Violet Bonham Carter regarding sponsorship for Wilhelm to enable him to leave Bratislava (1938-1939); William Theodor's school reports from schools in Bratislava and Salford grammar school; testimonials for Max and Jrma Freud and Mr S Neurath (relationship to the Buchwalds is unknown); post-war correspondence with friends and Katerina Buchwald's National Health and Pensions Insurance Contributions C...

  12. C.C. Aronsfeld: copy personal correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence relating to a letter published in the Times newspaper in 1977 by C.C. Aronsfeld, formerly deputy director of the Wiener Library, which questioned the extended closure period on records held at the Public Records Office relating to the author of an Anti-Semitic book on Anglo-Jewry, (Das Judentum in England , by Peter Aldag), published in Germany in 1940. Some of the correspondence betrays a latent anti-Semitism.

  13. C.P. Carter: Letter re the bombing of Hamburg

    Letter speculating on the reasons for the accuracy/ inaccuracy of the British bombing of Hamburg 

  14. Cahn family papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn (the depositor) from England to her father in Mönchen- Gladbach, 1940s. Also included is a copy claim form by Fritz Cahn in Canda for compensation from the city of Mönchen- Gladbach.Sophie's father, Emanuel, died in Theresienstadt in 1942. The children ended up in Canada, USA, UK, and Israel.

  16. Captain Perry: copy personal papers

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers of Captain P. J. C. Perry of the British Control Commission, sector Berlin, documents in part his role and activities as a member of the British military authorities in Berlin in the immediate post-war period. He is variously described as the nutrition officer of the nutrition and agriculture department of the military authority; Commander for the admission of motor vehicles; and ‘Herrn Keppenperie' (964/4).

  17. Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

  18. Carl Schmitt: RFSS SD Hauptamt File

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This document is a dossier produced by the Sicherheitsdienst der Reichsführung SS, 1936-1937, the result of an extensive investigation into Carl Schmitt, constitutional theorist of the Weimar Republic and ‘Crown Jurist' of the Nazi era. It contains correspondence and reports from former colleagues of Schmitt and others, denouncing his alleged anti-nazi, pro-Jewish background. Also included is correspondence between the editor of Das Schwarze Korps, and officials within the RFSS SD, in which an...

  19. Carlebach Collection

    This collection mainly consists of papers related to Julius Carlebach (1922 - 2001) moved life, concerning his work in the Jewish Orphanage Norwood, his academic career and his religious placements and engagement. Few papers providing personal impressions reflecting his early life experiences in Nazi Germany, arriving in Great Britain as a refugee through the first Kindertransport in 1938 and commemorations on his father Josef Carlebach, former Chief Rabbi in Hamburg. His father and most other family members were killed in concentration camp. Guidance The collection consists of corresponden...

  20. Cecil Roth file: Documents re Italian Jewry

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material documenting the experiences of Italian Jewry is in 2 parts: Cecil Roth's essays and memoranda on the history and experience of Italian Jewry in general (507/I); and his original correspondence concerning the fate of individual Italian Jews during the Nazi era (507/II).