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  1. Eva Manes: correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence from friends of the Manes family in the immediate post war years. Much of it relates to the fate of family and friends and conditions in post war Germany.

  2. Eva Manes: letter from a friend

    This typscript letter addressed to Eva Manes from an unidentified friend of the family describes what happened to Eva's parents and other friends and acquaintances after her departure from Berlin before the war. The author also describes his own experiences after the war in Berlin.

  3. Eva Mills: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Eva Mills and her mother Gertrude Najman. Eva was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1938 whilst her parents fled Germany separately aiming to reach Palestine. Eva's father, Jankiel Najmann, managed to get to Haifa in 1944 after spending several months at Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp in Italy. Her mother, Gertrude Najmann, became a prisoner at Semlin concentration camp in Yugoslavia. She survived and was released in May 1942. Gertrude was unable to leave Yugoslavia until the end of the Second World War when she joined her husband ...

  4. Eva Noack-Mosse: Theresienstadt diary and other papers

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This diary covers the period of her incarceration at Theresienstadt from 12 February 1945 to 1 July 1945 and is preceded by an 11 page personal account of life under the Nazis from 1934. An addition to the original foreward, dated 1975, suggests that this version is a transcript copy. In addition to the diary there are a number of her personal documents form the period. The diary is dated Obersdorf, Allgäu, 1945.

  5. Eva Webb: personal papers

    Personal correspondence and autobiographical account of Eva Webb. Also included is correspondence relating to her war compensation claim, confirmation of the death of Heinrich Poper by Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association and letters from her father.

  6. Eva Williams: Family papers

    This collection comprises the papers of Emanuel Kohn including certificates and testimonials, photographs, copy Red Cross telegrams, family tree; also letters from Kazakhstan from Richard Kohn to Eva Williams, 1983-1997.  

  7. Evelyn Kaye: Family documents

    The papers in this collection document the lives of an Austrian Jewish family- Walter and Hansi Finkler and their daughter, Evelyn- who managed to escape the Nazis and come to England in 1939. They provide an insight into the experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in the UK.

  8. Evian Conference: records

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This collection contains minutes, reports, speeches and correspondence of the Evian conference and its various sub-committees.

  9. Ewald Bauer collection

    This collection contains copies of a humorous periodical which was produced in Terezin in 1943-1944 by Ewald Bauer and other inmates. Also included are 5 travelogues documenting Ewald’s holidays in the 1920s and 1930s. In addition there are some personal papers.

  10. Exhibition of 20th Century German art: flyer

    The exhibition to which this flyer refers took place at the 'New Burlington Galleries', London W1, from 8 July 1938 for a month.

  12. Eyewitness accounts re Auschwitz

    This microfilm report detailing deportation to and conditions in Auschwitz- Birkenau, was written by 2 Slovakian prisoners who managed to escape. The report includes plans of Auschwitz- Birkenau and statistics on inmates. According to a preamble the authors withheld their names for reasons of security.

  13. Eyewitness reports regarding the November Pogrom

    Readers should use online version via link belowThis is a collection of 356 reports gathered in the weeks and months following the November Pogrom of 1938 by the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam. Each report has a unique number in the sequence from B.1 to B.353 (B. presumably is an abbreviation of Bericht [report]) with five additions (B.62a, B.175a, B.333a, plus B.1001 and B.1002 at the end), and two unused numbers (B.342 and B.343). Most of the dated reports were created in November and December 1938; others were prepared in January and February 1939, and the remainde...

  14. Eyewitness testimonies

    Eyewitness testimonies covering a variety of subject matter

  15. Eyewitness testimony collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not testimonies per se but contemporary documents which were donated and later subsumed into this collection. These latter have nonetheless been catalogued and indexed in the same way as the testimonies.

  19. Fairfield Documents: Documents re sterilisation in the Third Reich

    This collection of correspondence and personal papers of Letitia Fairfield, a prominent Catholic doctor and lawyer, deal in the main with subject of compulsory sterilisation, in particular in relation to the Nazi eugenics policy; and to the views of the Catholic Church on the subject.

  20. Family papers of Leo Wolff

    Papers of Heyman Wolfsohn: six letters from the Judische Gemeinde and Thalmud Thora Verein about appointments in Berlin, 1866-87; two documents from the Berlin police about a residence permit, 1865; draft of emoluments, c.1837; letter from the District Council, Ostrow, about a post as teacher of religion, 1857; a testimonial of Wolfsohn's competence as mohel from the Raszkow community; contracts, 1841 and 1844; birth certificate and naturalisation certificate; mohel book; correspondence; testimonials; account of the illness of two daughters; list of children's birthdays; patriotic writings ...