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  1. Copy affidavits and other papers re conditions at Auschwitz

    This collection of copy papers was created by Duncan Little whilst researching his book, "Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp, Clairview Books, 2009.The collection consists mostly of copy authenticated affidavits of former British serviceman who had also been Auschwitz inmates. In addition there are notes about other inmates' experiences, the originals of which are held in private collections; transcript interview with a former inmate and affidavits from those accused of war crimes.Note that items 1624/37-38 were added la...

  3. Dr. Wilhelm Freyhahn: description of Buchenwald

    This is a copy of a letter from Max Bollag of Basel, dated 26 August 1938, the bulk of which consists of an account by Dr. Wilhelm Freyhahn's experiences of Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was an inmate until July 1938.

  4. Agnes Kaposi Collection

    This collection contains the personal papers and photographs of the Kaposi Klein family. In particular material relating to Erno Kaposi-Klein, the donor's father-in-law, his wife and son; also Magda and Imre Kristof, the donor's parents

  5. Correspondence re Josef Meyer testimony

    Correspondence re Joseph Meyer testimony 

  6. Myer Jack Landa: Papers

    This collection of miscellaneous papers, press cuttings and journal articles provides a fragmentary glimpse into the life of Myer Jack Landa, a British Jewish writer and long time sketch writer in the Press Gallery at the House of Commons. His interest in a number of organisations is reflected here, in particular that of The Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia

  7. Marion Lesser collection

    This collection contains papers pertaining to the family of Marion Lesser nee Oschitzky and comprises correspondence from her parents and other papers

  8. Hilde Walter: experiences of the Third Reich

    The report covers, amongst other things, the following subjects: the author's experience as a journalist on newspapers published by Rudolf Mosse Verlag; the publication and editing of Weltbühne; activities of the Berlin-Wilmersdorf branch of the SPD; membership of the Soroptimist Club, international association for professional women; administration and tenancy of the so-called Künstlerkolonie.

  9. Testimonies of Jewish former residents of Russia and Eastern Europe

    Testimonies of Jewish former residents of Russia and Eastern Europe describing experiences of persecution.. All of the interviewees went to Palestine on Youth AliyahThe identities of the interviewees are not known. Each testimony is entitled ‘case history' and followed by a number. The numbers in this collection are: 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16. It is not known where the missing numbers are.

  11. Max Wolff collection

    Part autobiographical , part historical part legal treatise

  12. Institute for American Democracy Inc.

    Diverse printed anti-racist material from the Institute for American Democracy Inc., including eight miniature postersEnglish 

  13. Copy documents re Jewish doctors

    This collection comprises a mimeographed report on the status of Jewish doctors in Germany, c1938; and a mimeographed news cutting on the same subject, 1937.

  14. Heinz Süssmann personal papers

    Personal papers and correspondence of Heinz Süssmann

  15. 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.

  16. Refugee organisations: reports and other papers

    Miscellaneous collection of reports and other papers, which are concerned with the plight of refugees from Nazi Germany.

  18. Czechoslovak Jewish relief organisations: Correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digtal version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documentation contains correspondence and papers relating to the activities of Jewish relief organisations in Czechoslovakia, mainly the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia and the American Joint Distribution Committee. Also examples of official guarantee forms etc for entry into Great Britain, c1939.Correspondence and papers re relief work for Jews in post war Czechoslovakia including a memo from the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia and ...

  19. Papers on Otto Schiff

    Notes, correspondence, primary documents (most photocopied) and secondary literature written or collated by A. J. Sherman and Pamela Shtazkes to write an article on Otto Schiff. Their article appeared in The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook in 2009. In addition the collection contains a similar set of materials created or collected by Joan Stiebel, who had worked closely with Schiff in the 1930s and 1940s. Particularly interesting are the drafts Stiebel wrote of a longer, unpublished memoir or autobiography of Schiff; these also examine her work with refugees after 1945.The dates...

  20. Copy correspondence with newspaper editors and academics re articles about Israel

    Copy correspondence with newspaper editors and academics re articles about Israel