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  1. Gestapo Sonderkommando, Lehrter Strasse Prison: Admissions book

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilmed copy document was produced when the original was still at the Royal United Service Institution, London. It is now at the Imperial War Museum.A note which precedes the list, dated 19 July 1945, from the director of the Lehrterstrasse prison, after it was taken over by the British Military authorities, states that he found the list and that it contains the names of those allegedly involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. He also states that those who were transported to...

  2. Correspondence from Gurs concentration camp, France

    These two postcards offer a brief insight into conditions at Gurs internment camp experienced by Berta Kahnheimer, a German (?) Jewish inmate.

  3. Herbert Engel: Copy personal papers

    These copy documents provide a rare insight into the effects of Nazism and its demise on the German population.

  4. Gossels family: Copy correspondence

    Collection of correspondence between members of the Gossels family who emigrated to Holland during the Second World War and certificates of incarceration at Auschwitz concentration camp for the parents Sally and Malchen Gossels (1662/1).

  5. Sergeant C.C. Warmer: Material re Bergen Belsen

    Documents and photographic material showing Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation.

  6. Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office: news digest for Germany and Austria

    This collection of news digests was compiled by editors at the German and Austrian Division of the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office. The information contained within was obtained from numerous European sources for internal consumption. Subjects include reports on the Bergen Belsen trial and the Nuremberg War Crimes trialand other war crimes trials. Also reports on the social economic and political conditions of Germany and Austria in the immediate post-war years.The frequency of these extant copies varies. They begin daily, become weekly, then more intermittent with a...

  7. Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit: Organisational papers

    This collection of papers documenting the activities of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Relief Unit, the former's operational arm, consists of numerous separate deposits, the details of which were never recorded. Of particular interest are the following: a volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries; and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration camp inmates.The original order in which the collections were listed has been retained.

  8. 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.

  9. Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

    Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.German 9 pages 

  10. Dr Walter Manfred Bergmann: Family papers

    This collection of papers consists of correspondence from the Reichsärztekammer and government regulations relating to the aryanisation of the medical profession in Nazi Germany. In addition the collection contains identity cards for Walter Bergmann, his wife and two young children which carry the distinctive 'J' designating their Jewish ethnicity.

  11. Copy papers re Paul Dickopf

    This collection consists of copy papers which document the life and career of Paul Dickopf, formerly SS Unterscharfführer, and later head of Interpol. The papers consist of copy records of Dickopf's war-time career including items such as his cv, written in his own hand, and evidence on wanted lists of the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt that he was sought by the Nazi authorities.

  12. Council for German Jewry: Correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection consists of correspondence of the Council for German Jewry on the following subjects: dismissals of Jewish staff at Göttingen University (608/1); Austrian Jewish refugees from the Burgenland; various synagogue congregations in Germany (608/2); emergency relief organisation for German scientists abroad (608/3). Also a report by the Jewish Agency for Palestine re emigration, 1933-1934 (608/4)

  13. Primo Levi biography: papers

    The majority of the material is secondary. A wide range of publications and unpublished articles on all aspects of his life and work is represented here. In addition, a unique collection of transcript interviews with friends, colleagues and relatives, and Primo Levi, himself, provides a special dimension to the collection.

  14. Heinemann and Epstein family collection

    This collection contains photographs and a family tree relating to the Epstein family, a large Jewish family from Frankfurt.Photographs, family tree, also included is a notebook of poetry and correspondence addressed to Adelheid Heinemann who fled Nazi Germany with her husband, son and mother

  16. Kommandostab RFSS Nachrichtenkompagnie, Eastern Region: Reports

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of copy reports amassed by the Kommandostab RFSS Nachrichtenkompagnie emanate from regional HSSuPF (Higher SS and police leaders) from headquarters in North, South and Central Russia. They cover the period July to October 1941 and document the actions and movements of various battalions and regiments either linked with or part of the notorious Einsatzgruppen. In particular they provide details of the murder of Jews, partisans and other civilians

  17. 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.

  18. Richard and Rena Voss collection

    Personal papers, in particular vital records and identity documents, of members of the Voss and Mendel-Lion families.

  19. Papers relating to small Jewish communities and genealogical material

    Gentleman's magazine The papers include notes, newspaper cuttings, copies of local Jewish newspapers, correspondence, genealogies, relating to Jews in Cork, Bristol, Plymouth, Cheltenham and a provincial index to the list of Jewish bankrupts in the ; correspondence and papers on the De Castro family; papers relating to Joseph Cortissos; letter from Sir Paul Butler to the secretary of the Board of Deputies concerning an ancestor, Charles Nathaniel Levien and his family, 18 September 1951; correspondence, notes and papers on the families of D'Aguilar, Setton and Samuel; genealogies of Joseph ...

  20. Persecution of Jews in Berlin: Various copy documents

    This collection of copy documents records the experiences of racial persecution of Jews in Berlin. It includes the following: an arrest warrant for Leo Boschwitz, (1935) for the destruction of a copy Der Stürmer (-/1) and his release from Lichtenburg concentration camp in the same year(-/2); a good conduct certificate issued by Camp le Vernet for Kurt Noher (1940) (-/5); detailed instructions issued by the jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin to Regina Montilja prior to her deportation to 'the Protectorate', (1942) (-/7); and pro forma summons to the assembly station at Grosse Hamburger Str...