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  1. Rosenthal family: Copy Gestapo documents

    This collection contains copies of the files of the Rosenthal family compiled by the Gestapo immediately prior to their deportation and murder at Auschwitz.Documents including declaration forms of financial assets confiscated by the state. The family requested to see these documents as part of their compensation claim at the Restitution Office in Berlin in 1966.

  2. Dann family register

    This collection contains the family register of the descendants of Samuel Alexander Levi - the Dann family, a Jewish family living in Frankfurt, Germany. Printed work entitled 'Stammtafel und Register der Nachkommenschaft des Samuel Alexander Levi (Dann) aus Frankfurt am Main' edited by Wilhelm Dann. Includes seven charts of genealogical trees.Includes English translation of the preface.

  3. Kurt Strauss: Family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of the Jewish family of Victor and Marianne Strauss and their sons Helmut and Kurt. The family emigrated from Germany in 1939 to excape Nazi persecution. Includes transcripts and translations of a selection of Helmut Strauss's letters.Included are correspondence and papers relating to Helmut's school education in England and internment in the UK and Australia and Kurt's education in England after emigration (1697/1; Victor and Marianne's correspondence re emigration (1697/2); Victor's employment and business papers (1697/3) war compensation claims ...

  4. Margot Hirschmann papers relating to Palestine and Orient Lloyd Travel Bureau

    This collection contains papers relating to the business of Palestine & Orient Lloyd G.m.b.H travel bureau.Papers including: a work reference for Margot Hirschmann who worked at the German branch in Berlin until she herself emigrated; copies of advertising, extracts of minutes of meeting regarding pricing of passenger tickets; as well as correspondence with the Central Zionist Archives and American Joint Distribution Committee regarding emigration permits for South America. Also included is correspondence by Susanne Dyke commenting on the caption of a photograph showing people queuing a...

  5. Rudolf, Philipp and Eva Manes: Personal papers

    This collection contains the diary of Rudolf Manes (1699/1) and personal papers of Philipp and Eva Manes (see also WL Doc 1346 for Philipp Manes's papers).

  6. Karl Hauslich: Dachau concentration camp postcard

    Postcard addressed to Karl Hauslich at Dachau concentration camp from his brother Heinrich Hauslich and his mother who were both living in Vienna. Heinrich reports about his arrangements for his brother's release. Both are looking forward to his foreseeable return home.

  7. Leon Greenman personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Leon Greenman, a British survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, documenting his experiences in the camps and post-war educational and political activities relating to the Holocaust.

  8. Henry and Betty Nathan: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish couple, Henry and Betty Nathan, who emigrated to London in 1937 to avoid Nazi persecution.Included are birth certificate and extract of the register of births relating to Ellen Dollie Nathan, press cuttings concerning Henry Nathan's tapestry company in Northern Ireland, copy correspondence with the Royal Household regarding a request for tapestry by Her Majesty Queen Mary (WL1702/13), certificate of naturalisation (WL1702/11) and Betty Nathan's German driving licence. The collection also includes two friendship albums ('Poesiealbums...

  9. George and Henni Lesley: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish couple, George and Henni Lesley. 

  10. Kuttner, Godlewsky, Speyer and Marx family histories

    This collection consists of the biographical accounts of three German Jewish families, compiled by Richard Lesser as part of a German initiative to record the fate of Jewish families who perished during the Holocaust.The papers concern the Kuttner family, Siegfried and Fanny Speyer, and Arthur and Elsa Godlewsky.Also contains the personal papers of Dr Ludwig Marx (the donor's father) including his passport (1704/3), a postcard from Dachau concentration camp sent to his wife Regina Marx ((1704/1) and his admission pass to Dachau (1704/2).

  11. Senta Hirtz collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Senta Hirtz, including: school and professional training certificates; papers relating to her work as a physiotherapist; report on her Jewish Relief Unit work at the welfare centre near the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, in 1945 describing the conditions at the hospital, search office and activities of the social club; unpublished memoirs; extracts from diaries, poetry and personal notes; travel journals of holidays in Greece and the USA in the 1970s; report on a trip to her former home in Germany in 1992; and pers...

  12. Georg Fuchs: family correspondence

    Family papers including letters between George Fuchs and his girlfriend Eva Hellmann (1929-1944), family photographs, correspondence regarding the fate of cousin Franz Dietrich Schweizer, official certificate of the deportation of Georg Fuchs's mother, Georg Fuch's brief biographical account, copy press cutting regarding the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk (1986), as well as personal documents such as birth certificate, certificates of qualifications, testimonials of employment, soldier's service and pay book, Czech World War II medal, Czech passport, certificate of release from Czech na...

  13. Steiner family: copy correspondence

    This collection consists of copy correspondence of the Steiner family and friends, a Jewish family living in Czechoslovakia who were dispersed by the Holocaust.Correspondence concerning efforts to arrange for emigration, living conditions for refugees going to America and updates on the lives of family members and friends.German Hungarian

  14. Albert Süsskind collection

    This collection contains a transcript of Albert Süsskind's report and related correspondence to the Australian High Commissioner of the UK on the conditions on board the HMT Dunera, on which internees and prisoners of war were transported to Hay internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, from England in 1940. Süsskind requested an investigation into the material damage and humiliating treatment endured by the internees on board the ship and payment of compensation. Also included is his identity card for commercial travellers.

  15. Wolffing family: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Wolffing family who lived in Würzburg, Bavaria. The family emigrated to England from Nazi Germany to escape Nazi persecution just before the outbreak of the Second World War. The collection mainly contains documents concerning generations of family members living in the 19th century whose exact relations are unknown: Simon Wolffing (born in c 1788, perfumer); Isidor Wolffing (born in 1834, distiller), Selma Wolffing (born in 1881, pianist), and Marie Krebs and Ernst Wolffing (were engaged in 1880).The collection mainly concerns earlier gen...

  16. Margot Weinberg: personal correspondence

    This collection contains letters sent to Margot Weinberg by her family in Berlin. Includes summary in EnglishIncludes press cuttings relating to the events taking place in Nienburg to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the November pogroms in 2005. The correspondence documents the increasingly difficult situation for Jews in Berlin and Margot's health and love life.

  17. Kurt and Edith Brent: personal papers

    Documents including family correspondence describing the difficult living conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Second World War; Kurt Brent's papers collected in preparation for emigration such as school certificates, 'Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung', German passport and driving license, British army soldier's service and pay book, soldier's release book, Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen membership card and his memoirs; as well as Edith Brent's emigration papers such as training certificates, testimonials and work references, marriage certificate and correspondence relation to war co...

  18. Else and Willy Heymann: personal correspondence

    This collection consists of correpondence from Grete and James Pick, who emigrated to China, to their friends Willy and Else Heymann, who had emigrated to New Zealand.Letters providing details of the procedures for refugees arriving in Shanghai, impressions of Chinese culture, James Pick's professional life in Tientsin, and Pick's return to Germany after the Second World War.Also included are a copy letter to Willy Heymann by a general who he cared for in World War I, the wedding ode for Else and Willy Heymann's wedding, Else Heymann's memoirs of her visit to Constantinople between 1917-191...

  19. Rychwalski family: copy correspondence

    This collection contains copy correspondence and transcripts of letters from Moses and Lina Rychwalski and their son Max Rychwalski to his future wife Amalie ('Malli'). Includes a translation from Hebrew into English and a transcript of a handwritten German letter in Kurrentschrift (Old German script).Copy correspondence and transcripts of letters from Moses and Lina Rychwalski and their son Max Rychwalski to his future wife Amalie ('Malli'). Also included is a copy letter from Ernst Rychwalski addressed to his cousin Kurt and his wife Selma, dated November 1945. He reports about the loss o...

  20. 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).