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  1. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: deportation order

    This order from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland to Frau D. S. Allfeld, partner in a mixed marriage, to go on a work detail out of the city (Frankfurt a. M.) is evidence of the continuation of this organisation's activities (albeit in changed and much reduced form).After June 1943, when most of Germany's Jews had been deported to concentration/ death camps. The following features are of particular interest. The date, 8 February 1945, seems very late and suggests that the Nazis must have been desperate to recruit workers at this time. The document appears to be a contemporary c...

  2. Joseph Langland: Poems re Buchenwald

    Copies of Joseph Langland's poems about Buchenwald and Hiroshima: Buchenwald near Weimar; The Lotus Song; A Hiroshima Lullaby and a copy entry from Who's Who in America 

  3. Franz Szell: correspondence re Alfred Rosenberg

    The letter seeks to demonstrate the racially mixed background of one of the Nazis most virulent exponents of Nazi racial ideology. The collection also includes copies (in several languages) of a letter addressed to Goering, Göbbels and von Neurath, amongst others, containing essentially the same information as in the open letter (936/2). The last letter is addressed to the Justice Minister, Trygre Lie, Oslo, and in addition to the information contained in the above, contains details of the author's own experiences.

  4. Arnold Schönberg: copy papers

    This collection of copy correspondence concerns the period when he left Europe for the United States.

  5. Dorothea Strauss: Journals of the family and other papers

    This collection comprises a copy English translation of the journals of the family history: original by Dorothea Strauss, translation by Eugene Strauss, her youngest son. Note that what remains of the original still resides with the donor. Also included are copies of Red Cross telegrams between other family members, Alfred and Edmund Lehmann, Kaethe Cohn and Gerda Strauss

  6. Commemoration speech by President Roman Herzog

    This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

  7. Austrian Ministry of Finance: Gazette

    This official gazette of the Austrian Ministry of Finance lists all the artworks and other cultural goods, stolen by the Nazis, in the State's possession, which they wanted to return to their rightful owners.

  8. Waffen SS: Papers re training leaders

    These documents relate to an initiative by the Waffen SS, in 1943, to target the brighter pupils amongst the middle and higher classes to train to become leaders in the organisation.

  9. Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan

    Report of interrogation of Philipp and Flora Zondervan re anti-state utterances, AmsterdamAuthor unknown German I page 

  10. Bekennende Kirche: various papers

    This material relates to the growing opposition to the Nazi-supported German Christian Movement by members of the German Evangelical community. In particular, the newly formed Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) rejected the authority of the National Synod which was presided over by Nazis and demanded allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Correspondents include pastor Heinrich Vogel; Otto Dibelius, general superintendent of the Brandenburg Church; Albertz, superintendent of the Bekennende Kirche, Berlin-Brandenburg; Dr Duckert, Gauobmann Deutsche Christen.

  12. Anna Jacobsen: Copy documents re racial origins

    These 2 copy documents concern a court case at the District Court, Hamburg in 1943, in which the paternity and racial origins of Anna Mathilde Sara Jacobsen are subject to examination. Included are the verdict of the court and the report of Professor Dr. Hans Weinert of the Anthropological Institute of Kiel University. The documents offer some insight into the pseudo-scientific procedures of racial research during the Nazi era.

  14. Copy report of the Auswärtiges Amt

    Copy report of the Auswärtiges Amt regarding a confidential letter from Rabbi Wise to leading American Jews, which proved that the leaders of International Jewry realise that the fight against Jews in Germany is spreading to other countries where Jews played a leading role and he suggests that money must be raised to get 100,000 to 150,000 Jews out of Germany so that the antisemitic propaganda should come to an end 

  16. Siegfried Weiner: biographical account

    Siegfried Weiner: biographical account

  17. Sovietsky Kultur: copy antisemitic article

    Copy antisemitic article from Sovetsky Kultur.Russian 1 pageThis copy article is described as ‘purporting to be an interview between Dr. Howard Spear and E. Evseev'. It was given to the depositor by Victor Brailovsky. The latter is thought to be responsible for the markings on the text.

  20. Robert Wieland: copy papers re compensation

    This collection of copy papers documents a claim made by Robert Wieland on behalf of himself and his brother, Edgar Andree, for compensation from the German government for suffering caused by the Nazi regime. The papers include copy correspondence, psychiatric reports, affidavits etc