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  1. NSDAP Auslandorganisation: newsletter extracts

    This collection consists primarily of typescript extracts from the official organ of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation. It appears that the extracts were compiled contemporaneously, possibly by the JCIO. The date of the last extract, January 1936, gives some indication as to the date of completion. The choice of extracts is explained in a footnote to a summary of the extracts (840/2) which states that only those articles were chosen which contained particularly interesting items of news and announcements. The subjects include matters of finance, economics, schools and the welfare of German wom...

  3. Norbert Zils: letter re Marianne Isaac

    This copy letter was given to the depositor by the recipient, Ruth Wolf. Ruth Wolf had earlier responded to a letter to a Birmingham newspaper from the same author, requesting information on the whereabouts of Marianne Isaac. It appears that the author, Norbert Zils, a history teacher from a small town in (West) Germany, was trying to put together an exhibition on the fate of the town's Jews. He was particularly concerned that the local people do not succeed in repressing knowledge of events which took place during the nazi era.

  4. Copy eyewitness reports regarding the November Pogrom

    These copy reports are apparently strays from a full collection of 356 reports (WL Document Collection 1375) gathered in the weeks and months following the November Pogrom of 1938 by the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) in Amsterdam. They bear a similar reference number to the rest of the reports in this collection, pre-fixed by the letter 'B'. These reports have been numbered separately (B40, B41, B42) and are in relation to the destruction of synagogues in Germany during the November Pogrom. 

  6. Bern: Copy court papers re libel action brought by Jewish community

    Copy papers re a private action brought by the Schweiz. Israelitischer Gemeindebund and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Bern against the Gauleitung des Bundes Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen, re a case comprising the following charges: contravening the law on trash literature; distributing pamphlets; publishing an article ‘Swiss girls beware of Jews'; and selling the brochure ‘the Zionist Protocols'.53 pages

  7. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  8. Holocaust survivor interview transcripts

    The transcribed life stories of Holocaust surviviors in this collection are the result of Freda Kosmin’s efforts to record and preserve the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust, paying particular attention to what they achieved after the war. The project was therefore given the title: How Hitler failed: From Survival to Success.The project was instigated when Freda met one of the interviewees then saw him speak publicly about his experiences. He agreed to be interviewed by Freda and also recommended other potential interviewees. There are 7 interview transcripts in total, each seve...

  9. Jews in Berlin at the beginning of 1942: a report

    This typescript report on conditions in Berlin is the product of a conversation with a Jewish woman who left Berlin in the beginning of 1942 and arrived in London in October of that year.

  11. Gerhard Goldbaum: Copy papers

    Gerhard Goldbaum: Copy papers re Primo Levi 

  15. Copy report of transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk

    This is an apparently authentic certified copy of a report about a transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk, which commenced on 10 November 1941. The author was Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, Meurin. The document is countersigned by Oberwachtmeister der Sch[utzpolizei?] [illegible]. Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city's Jews. The description of the embarkatio...

  17. Fanto family: Copy personal papers

    Copy papers of Manfred and Lea Fanto, who travelled from Prague to Austria, including an inventory of personal possessions for eachGerman and Czech 

  18. Kindertransport questionnaire survey material

    Kindertransport questionnaire survey material . Note that the original forms are closed to the public.An anonymised speadsheet containing extrapolated data from the forms is accessible in the readimng room.Readers need to book a terminal in the reading room to access his material .

  19. Waging peace: Darfur children's drawings and other material

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to consult a digital copy of this material

  20. Account of Jewish doctors in Frankfurt am Main

    This copy account of Jewish doctors in Frankfurt am Main provides biographical details on some of the city's most prominent Jewish doctors.