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  1. Trude Grünwald collection

    This collection contains a photocopy of the diary (incomplete) of Trude Grünwald from Vienna, a Jewish refugee who emigrated with her parents to England via Albania in 1938.

  2. Reichsjugendführer: regulations re youth service of Jewish Mischlinge

    The document is evidence of the problem that the Nazis had with treating Germans of mixed Jewish parentage, in particular what to do with Mischlinge 1 Grades (with 2 Jewish grandparents) who had already been serving in the Jugenddienst. Whilst the latter group were now regarded as having an unacceptable level of Jewish blood, many had already served the Third Reich and many more were due to once they reached the right age. The solution was apparently to create an intermediate stage in which Mischlinge 1 Grades were to be put on permanent standby (Bereitstellung) but would never actually be ...

  4. Reverend Wernham: Correspondence

    Correspondence of Reverend Wernham including material relating to his activities assisting German and Austrian Jewish refugeesThis collection of correspondence of the Reverend Wernham contains letters, which document his assistance to German Jewish refugees just before and after the outbreak of war. Also included is material documenting German attitudes to the political situation immediately prior to the outbreak of war.

  6. Frank Bright: copy family papers

    This collection consists of copy papers relating to the fate of members of Frank Bright's family during the Second World War. Included amongst the material in this collection is a photograph of the class from his Jewish school which he attended, c1942; the property declaration forms for his uncle and aunt from the Landeshauptarchiv, Berlin; copy pages of Testimony for the Yad Vashem Archive, Jerusalem.

  7. Central British Fund: Reports and other papers re orphans

    These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

  8. Sonderfahndungsliste

    This is believed to be a typescript transcript of an Associated Press telex containing the names on the infamous Nazi Black List, a facsimile copy of which the Wiener Library holds. The list contains the names of all those whom the Nazis regarded as a potential threat to their plans and would therefore be arrested after the successful invasion of Great Britain. Details about the form and content of this edition are unknown (the depositor purchased it from a dealer)

  9. Julius Jung: correspondence

    This collection of correspondence documents the activities of Julius Jung, a German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain

  10. Albert and Milda Salinger: Copy correspondence

    This collection contains copy correspondence between members of the Salinger family during World War II.Personal papers including details of the name change of Albert Salinger's daughter Judis, Judis's emigration to England, and the death of Milda Salinger's mother in 1943.German

  11. Putzel family: correspondence and Red Cross letters

    This collection contains the papers of Otto and Lena Putzel, a German-Jewish couple who emigrated to London to avoid Nazi persecution.Included is a copy Red Cross letter from Otto and Eva Putzel to Rosi Rosenthal and her husband (Otto's brother) in Nuremberg, Bavaria, enquiring after news. Also includes Hermann Putzel's citation for a medal for his services in the 14th Infantery Regiment 'Hartmann' in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).

  12. Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia: Various collections

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection comprises 3 separate, unrelated deposits. They have been filmed in the following order. 578/II contains the family correspondence of Gerda Mayer (née Stein) from her parents in Prague, 1939-1940. 578/I contains the surgical case notes of Dr Erich Springer, whilst inmate and surgeon in Terezin, 1943-1944. 578/III contains the papers of Dr Walter Feuereisen, chief medical officer of the Jewish community in Prague, deposited by his brother.

  14. Documents re Nazis in Spain

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of documentation on microfilm and in hard copy details the activities of the Nazi Party and the Auslandsorganisation in Spain.

  18. Leonard Montefiore collection

    Leonard Montefiore collection comprising draft writings, correspondence, printed material and press cuttings documenting his life and work

  20. 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.