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  1. Rudolf Beck: family papers

    This collection of papers of an Austrian Jewish family, who emigrated to England and the USA before the war, documents, in part, the activities of the family prior to emigration; life in the UK; and post war attempts to claim property in Austria.

  2. Walldorf 16 Labour Camp, Frankfurt a. M.: List of Jewish prisoners

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archiveList of Jewish women prisoners at Walldorf/ Frankfurt, giving prisoner number, name, date of birth, profession, function in the camp 

  4. Papers of Chief Rabbi Sir Israel Brodie

    Newspaper cuttings, 1948-62 (2 vols.), together with journals of pastoral tours of Australia and New Zealand kept by Mrs Brodie, 1951-2 and 1961-2, and material relating to visits to Israel, Ireland, South Africa and the United States of America (3 vols.). Photographs, including portraits, 1950s-70s. Personal papers, 1918-68; papers of the Conference of European Rabbis and Associated Religious Organisations, 1967-8; drafts and typescripts of sermons, addresses and articles, 1924-63.

  5. Ronald Hertzmann: family papers

    Herzmann family papers including family history, correspondence and miscellaneous papers

  7. Rescue Movement of Refugees for the Persecuted: Correspondence

    This collection documents the responses from MPs and others to Gertler's proposal.

  8. Copy documents re Herschel Grynszpan

    This collection comprises copy documents relating to the Herschel Grynszpan/ Ernst vom Rath affair. In addition there is a covering note containing commentary on the documents from Vincent Frank-Steiner.

  9. Ida Schloss: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ida Schloss who emigrated to the UK in 1939 to flee Jewish persecution in Austria.Personal papers including Ida Schloss' birth and marriage certificates, Austrian citizenship certificate as well as extract of birth register and death certificate of her husband Max Schloss.English German

  10. Abraham family: Copy correspondence

    The copy correspondence in this collection documents the experiences of a German Jewish family in Berlin and England.

  11. Robert Wieland: copy papers re compensation

    This collection of copy papers documents a claim made by Robert Wieland on behalf of himself and his brother, Edgar Andree, for compensation from the German government for suffering caused by the Nazi regime. The papers include copy correspondence, psychiatric reports, affidavits etc

  12. Alice Fink: Family papers

    These family papers, including original correspondence, document in part the life of a German Jewish refugee.

  13. Laura Selo collection

    Laura Selo family correspondence and papers including letters from her mother Grete Gumpel to her father; also letters from the children to their father while he was interned; also documents and Red Cross letters of Else Philipps, Grete Gumpel's sister, who managed to get to Great Britain. Included is a negative of a letter by the Jewish Refugee Committee.

  14. Papers of Rabbi Bruno Italiener

    News-cuttings from the German and English press, c.1933-56; sermons, articles and addresses by Italiener, including 'Baeck and Buber', 'Rembrants Gemalde', 'Frauengestalten der Bibel', 'Thoughts of a Jew on Dante's Divine Comedy' and 'Unity and Development'; papers for a course led by Dr Italiener in 1928; typescript article 'Jonathan Balter, 1928-49' and a memorandum, in German, to Presidium and Rabbinate of the Association of Temples by Hans Bloch, 24 May 1933. Correspondence including family letters, 1939; correspondence with Dr Hamburger, 1936; two letters on Dr Leo Baeck's book, 1951, ...

  15. Papers re war crimes in Yugoslavia

    This microfilm collection of papers of the Nazi authorities in Yugoslavia comprises letters, proclamations and reports of German police units. It is significant because it includes an order which explicitly mentions their intent to systematically murder the adult male population of Hrastnigg, Kanker and Zavoden, in former Yugoslavia, and to 're-settle' the remaining population. The units involved were reserve Police Batallion 93; Police Batallion 322; Reserve Police Batallion109.

  16. Central Verein Berlin: reports of interviews with individuals re antisemitism

    The papers are reports of interviews, which Wiener had with various individuals concerned with trying to influence antisemitic agitation by Hitler. The individuals are Dr Planck, Staatssekretär der Reichskanzlei; von Steinau-Steinrück, the personal representative of the interior minister; and Alfred Leonhard Tietz

  17. 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...

  18. Shatzky family papers

    The collection contains a report about the life of Israel Shatzky, a letter from an unidentified parent to a daughter called Mertche, and family photographs.

  19. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  20. Papers re Lichtenstein and Rothschild families

    The material in this collection allows insights in life and persecution of members of two Jewish families from Austria and Germany. While the rather administrational documents refer primarily to the Lichtenstein family, the included photographs depict members and social life of the Rothschild family.