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Kraj: Wielka Brytania
  1. Marcus family: personal papers

    This collection consists of the personal papers of Helene Susanne ('Susan') Marcus and her parents Else and Eugen Marcus, Jewish refugees from Kassel, Germany who fled Nazi persecutions in the late 1930s. It contains family correspondence including a letter addressed to Susanne from her father at internment camp Douglas, Isle of Man; Susanne's soldier's service and pay book; papers relating to compensation claims; birth and death certificates; passports and photographs (1746/1). Also included are an audio recording and goodbye message from Susanne's parents for her emigration (1746/4); and ...

  2. Friedrich and Hertha Lewinski: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Jewish couple Friedrich and Hertha Lewinski from East Prussia who emigrated to the UK in the late 1930s. Included are medical qualifications, doctoral dissertation and sports award certificates of Friedrich Lewinski, insurance papers, Feldpost postcard, confirmation of military service in World War One, wedding menu and 'Hochzeits-Depeschen' book containing congratulatory wedding telegrams. Also included are booklets of postcards of Charleville and the valley of the Ahr.

  3. Eva Kaul: family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Eva Kaul, a Jewish woman from Berlin who fled Nazi oppression. The majority of documents relate to her parents, grandparents and other relatives. They include birth, death and marriage certificates, and last wills and testaments. Also includes Kurt Lisser's Landsturmschein; Eva and Fedor Kaul's qualifications, naturalisation and marriage certificates, and papers and correspondence relating to her parents' death and inheritance.

  4. Material relating to Ernst Chain and Anne Beloff-Chain

    This collection contains material relating to German-born biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Ernst Chain and his wife Anne Beloff-Chain. Ernst Chain came to England as a Jewish refugee in 1933. Included are press cuttings, announcements and an invitation to a family event, programmes for the scientific colloquium at Hoechst AG and anniversary of the births of Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring in 1954, and 'Formeln und Tafeln zum Preisvortrag von Prof. E. B. Chain - Zur Entwicklung der Chemotherapie bakterieller Erkrankungen'. Also includes a guide to the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, ...

  5. Alfred Eckstein: diary

    This collection contains the diary of Alfred Eckstein who emigrated with his family to Israel in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecutions. In the diary he describes the first three years of his daughter's development.

  6. Jampel family: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Polish Holocaust survivors Samuel and Anna Jampel who emigrated with their children to England in 1938/1939. Included are marriage certificate, Heimatschein and certificates of residence, certificates of mortality and 'Führungszeugnis', confirmation of award of Austrian First World War 'Kriegserinnerungsmedaille', birth certificates, tax clearance certificates ('steuerliche Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigungen'), reference by the synagogue committee of Gelsenkirchen, and letters from American and Polish Consulates regarding their application for i...

  7. Berta Einstein: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Jewish refugee Berta Einstein who emigrated to London in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Included are birth certificate, qualifications, work references, letter of recommendation by the Jewish Religious Committee of Memmingen, correspondence with the Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees regarding her application for work in England, list of items taken to England, medical certificate as well as photographs and correspondence with family and friends.

  8. Hammerschlag and Stein families: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Istvan and Eva Stein, Hungarian Jews from Budapest who emigrated to Cairo in 1938 whilst some members of their family stayed behind and perished in the Holocaust. Included are Eva Stein's memoirs (1753/1/1); qualifications and marriage certificate of Istvan and Eva Stein; as well as correspondence from both sides of the family and friends. Particularly the letters from Ernö Hammerschlag (Eva's father) (1753/7) describe the situation for Jews in Hungary during World War II detailing the occupation of Budapest and the bombings, his struggle to ear...

  9. Sturmthal and Löwenstein families: papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Sturmthal and Löwenstein families from Bad Pyrmont and Steinheim respectively, Germany, who fled to England with the help of the Quakers in 1939. Included are birth, marriage and death certificates, German passports (1754/1-3), Dina Löwenstein's certificate of naturalisation and correspondence from Steinheim Town Council regarding the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the November pogroms. Also included are a family tree chart (1754/4/5), poem by A W Heinitz (1754/4/1) written at Douglas internment camp, Isle of Man, and press cutt...

  10. Alexander and Hella Guhrauer: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Guhrauer family from Braunschweig whose son Alexander Israel Guhrauer and his future wife Hella Sara Freudenthal fled Nazi-Germany in the 1930s. Included are Hella Guhrauer's German nationality certificate and certificate of registration for aliens (1755/2); Alexander Guhrauer's tax clearance certificate ('Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung') and application for the Ex-service (Non-British) Association (1755/1); letter from his father, Max Guhrauer, sent just before their departure for Theresienstadt concentration camp and his death certificat...

  11. Vera Bier: restitution claim papers

    This collection consists of the restitution claim papers of Vera Bier whose parents and brother perished in the Holocaust. Her claims relate to the destroyed family property in Aachen, damage to her education, loss of finances, and deprivation of liberty and death of her family.

  12. Salomon and Frieda Hess: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Salomon and Frieda Hess who emigrated to South Africa in 1939 whilst their disabled son Alfred Hess stayed behind at a psychiatric hospital until he was deported in 1942. Included are correspondence with the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of Jews in Germany) regarding legal guardianship and payment of maintenance costs for Alfred Hess as well as the management of their financial assets in preparations for emigration. Also included are papers relating to a restitution claim by Salomon and Frieda Hess.

  13. Altmann family: restitution papers

    This collection contains the restitution and indemnification claim papers relating to properties previously owned by the Altmann family in Frankfurt, Kattowitz (Katowice, Poland) and Beuthen (Bytom, Poland). Also included are references to Stefan Zweig and a copy of a police order for the publisher Herbert Reichner in Leipzig regarding the removal of all books by Stefan Zweig (1758/1).

  14. Alice Bloemendahl: Theresienstadt eyewitness account

    This collection contains an eyewitness testimony relating to Terezin concentration camp by Alice Bloemendahl. This is the only surviving letter that she sent to friends in Hamburg whilst she was at Terezin. Bloemendahl describes the cultural, artistic and intellectual activities as well as improvements to the camp implemented by the Jewish inmates.

  15. Gerald Jayson, Edith Bown and Robert Sugar: articles on the Jewish refugee farm Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland

    This collection contains two articles relating to the Jewish refugee settlement farm in Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland. The siblings Gerald and Edith Jacobowitz arrived in the UK on a Kindertransport and spent the war years at the farm with other refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria. Their parents, aunts, uncles and several cousins were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. The article published in The Jewish Monthly (October 1990) was written by Gerald Jayson (formerly Jacobowitz). The second article in the Belfast Jewish Chronicle (September 2005) was written by another ref...

  16. Irene White: papers relating to Eli Elkana and the Holocaust in Luckenwalde

    This collection consists of material relating to Eli Elkana (Georg Michelsohn), a Jewish poet and dentist from Dessau (now Saxony Anhalt), who was persecuted by the Nazis as early as 1932/33 for his opposing ideas and writings. He, his wife and his daughter managed to emigrate whilst other family members perished in the Holocaust. Included are Eli Elkana's manuscripts of 'Die Ritter von der weichen Birne' (1952) (1761/2) and 'Die Militär-Parade' (written as part of a letter to his daughter) (1761/1) as well as draft version of 'Eli Elkana - Dr Georg Michelsohn - Versuch einer Biographie' by...

  17. Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence

    This collection consists of the personal correspondence of Lotte Oppenheim regarding the tracing of her mother, Berta Fraustaedter, after the Second World War. Berta Fraustaedter was a Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp. Included are correspondence with the Jewish Refugee Committee, the International Committee of the Red Cross and friends regarding arrangements for her mother to move to the UK.

  18. Irena and Antoni Wittek: personal papers and photographs

    This collection consists of the personal papers and photographs relating to Polish refugee Irena Wittek documenting her life in Poland, France, Africa and the UK together with material about her husband Antoni Wittek. Irena Wittek was studying medicine at the Sorbonne in Paris when she managed to catch one of the last boats to the UK as Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940. Included are qualifications, testimonials and work references, affidavit regarding Irena Wittek's marital status, marriage and naturalisation certificates, medical registration certificate and papers relating to Irena and...

  19. Ruth Sommerfeld: papers relating to Werner Simsohn's publication on the history of Jews in Gera

    This collection contains press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera'). Also included are speeches held at the honorary citizen awards ceremony for Simsohn in 1998, and draft extract from his publication regarding the Jewish families from Gera bearing the name Wernik.

  20. Rosa Mintz: papers concerning British Red Cross relief work

    This collection contains the personal papers of Rosa Mintz, a relief and welfare worker with the British Red Cross Society who was stationed in the UK and Germany between 1945-1949. Included are reports and correspondence (1765/1-2) relating to her work in Germany and lists of kit to be returned on termination of contract. Also included are British Red Cross honorary certificate and contract of employment, driving permits, diary and personal account of her time as a relief worker (1765/5) as well as photographs.