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  1. Bertha Pappenheim: Copy letter

    Copy letter of Bertha Pappenheim, dated FrankfurtBarely legible 

  2. Waldmann-Mandel collection

    The collection consists of the vital records and identity documents of Maurice Waldmann, Rita Waldmann-Mandel and Ludwig Mandel. It also contains letters to Ludwig Mandel, including one sent by his mother in Theresienstadt.

  3. Louis Zylberklang collection

    Various papers including original last Red Cross letter from Paris prior to deportation to his brother, Maurice, in Scotland; copy typescript autobiographical notes of Esther Berk, Louis Zylberklang's sister; various copy documents pertaining to Louis Zylberklang's fate

  4. Colin Gross family papers

    Documents and personal papers of the Gross family.

  5. Danish workers during the Nazi era: Various papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Danish workers during the Nazi era: Various papers

  6. Letter of unidentified Holocaust survivor

    Letter written by a former resident of Prague and inmate of Theresienstadt who emigrated to Canada.

  8. Isabella Roth: personal papers

    Collection of papers of Isabella Roth, an Austrian Jewish refugee.

  9. Richard and Rena Voss collection

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

  10. Copy article re Walther Rathenau

    Typescript translation of a newspaper article by an unidentified former member of the French Foreign Legion. The adjutant of the camp on the Libyan border was Tessier, someone who showed particular kindness to the Jewish legionnaires. When a new legionnaire by the name of Rathenau arrived, Tessier confessed that he was one of the murderers of Walther Rathenau, the former's uncle, and he produced a letter which Rathenau's mother had written to Tessier's mother after her son was killed. The author of the report met Tessier again in Marseille, where he helped many refugees escape.German 3 pages

  12. Hermann Maas and Paul Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    This is a collection of post-war copy correspondence between Hermann Maas, a German protestant minister, and two siblings, Jewish 'Mischlinge' emigrés, whom Maas helped to save from the Nazis.

  13. Reichsminister Lammers: Letter re the events of 20 July 1944

    Confidential circular letter to the leading government officials from Dr Lammers, Reichsminister and Chef der Reichskanzlei, regarding the Nazi government’s public treatment of the bomb plot of 20 July 1944  

  14. Chances of surviving a German concentration camp: report

    This copy report on Jewish resistance and survival in concentration camps poses a counter argument to Bruno Bettleheim's contention that camp experience created an infantile passive response, suggesting instead that inmates developed a variety of ways of resistance. This report was written in his capacity as an employee of the Dutch Sociologisch Instituut and is essentially a programme for research replete with rationale and methodology, also including a pro forma letter to authors of eyewitness testimonies seeking permission to use their accounts. Several parts of this text subsequently ap...

  15. George Rosney papers

    This collection contains family correspondence of George Rosney including letters received by him in England from his parents in Karlsruhe and later Stuttgart prior to their deportation to Terezin. Also included is correspondence from various other individuals to George; a separate set including detailed account of George's impressions of Germany in the imediate aftermath of the war. In addition there is a set of correspondence received and copy outgoing of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a cousin resident in the USA, which documents the efforts made to extricate Carl and Lise Rosenfeld from Germany.

  16. Leo Baeck: Letter to Mrs Ehrenberg

    Original letter from Leo Baeck to Frau Ehrenberg

  18. Gerhart Riegner : Correspondence

    Collection of letters and postcards found within the pages of books from the Gerhart Riegner library, which was bequeathed to the Wiener Library in 2002.

  19. Deutsche Freiheitsbriefe: copy issue

    This copy issue of Deutsche Freiheitsbriefe is accompanied by a commentary which sheds light on the history and content of the periodical.

  20. Cahn family papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn (the depositor) from England to her father in Mönchen- Gladbach, 1940s. Also included is a copy claim form by Fritz Cahn in Canda for compensation from the city of Mönchen- Gladbach.Sophie's father, Emanuel, died in Theresienstadt in 1942. The children ended up in Canada, USA, UK, and Israel.