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  1. Reb Hirsch Marx Uhlfelder: Copy family tree

    Copy family tree of Reb Hirsch Marx Uhlfelder compiled by his grandson Joseph Lincoln Uhlfelder, Dresden 1938 

  2. Jewish community, Berlin: Copy notice re resignation from Maria Golda Goldminz

    Copy notice from the Vorstand der Jüdischen Gemeinde, Oranienburger Str., Berlin N4 to the effect that Maria Golda Goldminz wishes to leave the Jewish CommunityGerman 

  3. Copy documents re Monik Rosenbaum, Theresienstadt survivor

    Copy documents regarding Monik Rosenbaum, a survivor from Theresienstadt, who was traced by his brother to Gateshead.

  4. Memo re air raid warden service, Merseburg, Saxony Anhalt

    Pro-forma memorandum re air raid warden service addressed to Annelore Höhne, Merseburg, Saxony Anhalt.The obverse includes extracts from the Air Raid Protection Laws, 1935 and 1939; extract re state secrets from the Punishment Book of the Third Reich; and the concept of ‘the Jew' consisting of various extracts from Nazi racial laws 

  5. Jewish anti-defamation work in pre-Hitler Germany

    Copy report on anti-defamation work in pre-Hitler Germany under the following sub-headings: the Jews; Labor; Antisemitic propaganda among labor; Defense; ConclusionsEnglish 31 pages 

  6. Altstadt family collection

    The collection contains the personal and business papers of Clara and Moritz Altstadt. The business papers represent about half the entire collection. They cover the Altstadts' business interests in interwar and postwar Austria and Czechoslovakia (the Aeterna shoe company and Clara Altstadt’s property rental business) and those set up after immigrating to Scotland (the Scottish Shoe Company and Macloritex). These materials, alongside the considerable correspondence with lawyers and banks, give an insight into the expropriation of Jewish property by the Nazi and Communist regimes, as well as...

  8. Hans Seelig: papers

    This collection contains the personal and family papers of Hans Seelig, university lecturer and musician and former Kindertransport refugee from Mannheim, Germany. The papers include material which documents Hans' life as a school student, his life as a languages student in Oxford, his life as a school teacher and later a university lecturer, his role as chairman of the Club 1943 (1860/1/6), and his activities as a musician (1860/1-2). Also included are papers and correspondence of his father Eugen (1860/2), mother Franziska (1860/3/1) including correspondence with friend of the family Alfr...

  9. 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 (B.104, B.131, B.240) and are in relation to the destruction of synagogues in Germany during the November Pogrom.

  10. German Foreign Office: correspondence re Jews in Slovakia

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilmed collection of correspondence and papers re the fate of Jews in Slovakia mostly dates after the Slovak National Uprising, which took place between August and October 1944, and included a relatively high percentage of Jews. It consists mainly of correspondence between the German Foreign and Security offices in Berlin and representatives of the regime in Pressburg (Bratislava). Included are letters from Obersturmbannführer Eichmann.

  11. Kramer, Salinger and Goldschmidt families: genealogical notes

    This collection consists primarily of notes on the history of 3 German Jewish families. Also included is a photograph of a Dutch cartoon.

  12. 60th anniversary of Wiener Library

    To commemmorate the 60th anniversary of the Wiener Library in London, a reception was held at the German Embassy in London, where the German ambassador, Dr. von Ploetz, and the chairman of the Wiener Library, Ernst Fraenkel both spoke. This collection comprises the texts of their speeches.

  13. Stephen de Bastion: copy family papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the family of Hungarian born Stephen de Bastion, pianist and composer, formerly known as Istvan Bastyai.Copy family papers including a transcript of an interview with Stephen de Bastion describing his life; a history of the Bastyai-Holtzer family with family tree; a history of the town of Szeged, Hungary where the family lived; and an account by Edith de Bastion of her family's experiences under the Nazis and press cuttings, and photographs.

  14. Esther Brunstein: text of speech given at UN

    This document is the text of a speech made by Esther Brunstein at the United Nations Building, New York, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  15. Moritz Plaut: biography

    This biography of Moritz Plaut, a banker, and resident of Berlin (1822-1910) was written by his daughters, Franziska Model, Margarethe Lehmann, Susanne Blumenthal and published, with original photographs pasted in, in June 1922.

  16. Copy affidavit from Manfred Rommel

    Copy affidavit from Manfred Rommel asserting that his father Fieldmarschal Erwin Rommel was murdered on the orders of Adolf Hitler

  17. Report re conditions in France under German occupation

    Report re conditions in France under German occupation including detail on the following subjects: smuggling people out of the country; good behaviour and manners of the invading force; the price of goods. The report has been annotated thus: ‘Reliable report; not for publication'English. 5 pages 

  18. Jewish Board of Deputies' Aliens Committee: minutes and reports

    The material sheds light on the role of the Aliens Committee of the Board of Deputies with respect to the treatment of aliens in Britain in the early 1930s.

  19. Letter

    New years greeting card, 27.12.1938Envelope with U.S.-Censorship-stampProfessor Witold S. Sworakowski, Assistant Director of the Hoover Institution, initiated the project and carried all the negotiations to a successful conclusion.