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  2. Cilly Haar collection

    Cilly Haar: Correspondence

  4. Clive Teddern: The Hyphen News and other papers

    The bulk of the collection is materials produced in Clive Teddern’s role as editor of The Hyphen News. Also included are his memoirs and papers of the Otto Hirsch Chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation.

  5. Clothing industry in Frankfurt: articles

    These accounts of Jewish involvement in Frankfurt's (ladies) wholesale garment and textile industry during the 19th and 20th centuries include descriptions of all the major firms and players.

  7. Cohn family papers

    This collection contains the business and personal papers of three generations of the Cohn family: Documents belonging to Joseph and Johanna Cohn's papers such as a publican licence, wills and title deeds. Business and personal papers of Heinrich (Heimann) Cohn, including contracts and ac-counts booklets relating to his companies, letters to his wife and mother, as well as a re-quest from his mother-in-law Hedwig Lesheim to allow Heinrich’s family to move to Berlin. Correspondence re restitution claims by Ella Cohn and Herbert Curtis.

  8. Cohn/ Baer family papers

    The material consists mostly of birth and death certificates, permits and travel documents. Included are papers which document the increasingly oppressive measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews. At 628/9 is Martha Cohn's identity card with the conspicuous “J” on the cover denoting Jew and which bears the additional information that she was ‘evacuated' from Berlin on 16 December 1942. At 628/10 is the order from the Amtsgericht, Berlin, that she must adopt the forename ‘Sara' to identify her as a Jew, dated 11 Jan 1939. At 628/11 is an order stamped by the Gestapo that she must leave G...

  9. Colin Gross family papers

    Documents and personal papers of the Gross family.

  11. Commemoration speech by President Roman Herzog

    This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

  12. Commemorative material re nazi victims of Kiel

    This collection of copy material relates to the commemoration of former Jewish residents of Kiel, Friedrich Schumm and Hillert Luecken,who died at the hands of the Nazis.

  15. Committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Baltic countries

    This collection of microfilmed documentation deals mainly with the activities of the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Baltic Countries, in particular with the gathering of evidence for the prosecution of war crimes in the Riga Ghetto region during 1941-1944.The bulk of the material comprises authenticated statements and affidavits from eyewitnesses with covering letters. There is also correspondence which offers an insight into the politics and processes of war crime trials in the immediate post war years.

  17. Concentration camp correspondence from various prisoners

    This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at R...

  18. Concert flyer

    Reichsverband der Jüdischen Kulturbünde in Deutschland: Concert flyer advertising a performance in Berlin 

  19. Conditions in Germany: Reports

    The reports provide an insight into the general conditions which obtained in Germany in the early 1940s.