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  1. Bergmann family: Internment letters

    This collection contains letters sent by Jewish refugee Dr Walter Manfred ('Fred') Bergmann, a medical surgeon, to his wife Ruth Bergmann, first from an internment camp in Huyton, Liverpool and then, after transfer of the camp, from Douglas on the Isle of Man (1687/1-41). (See also transcripts and translations of letters 1687/14-41 (1687/2).) There is only one letter written by Ruth Bergmann to her husband. She and her children found refuge in a hostel in Cheshire with the help of the Quakers. The letters document the family's efforts to obtain Fred's release and his life at the internment ...

  2. Irena and Antoni Wittek: Personal papers

    Personal papers and photographs of Irena Wittek documenting her life and medical career in Poland, France, Northern Rhodesia and the UK, as well as similar material about her husband Antoni Wittek. There are also audio recordings (in Polish) of Irena Wittek talking about her life in France leading up to the German occupation, her escape to England and life in London during the war.

  3. Eric and Käthe Curzon: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of Eric Curzon and his wife Käthe (née Kupferberg),  Jewish refugees who met in London after they had both fled Nazi German persecutions in their home towns of Vienna and Leipzig.Personal papers including Eric Curzon's documents such as qualifications; Heimatschein; birth, police clearance and naturalisation certificates; last will and testament; and a brief personal account relating to the Austrian annexation and his emigration. Also included is Käthe Curzon's correspondence from family and friends as well as a diary (1939-1941) written in ...

  4. Elli Kamm: personal papers on Terezin ghetto

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elli Kamm relating to her and her sister's restitution claim.Personal papers Including restitution papers, eyewitness testimonies, Elli Kamm's 'Arbeitsbuch' and various work references.English, German

  5. Fred Worms collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Fred Worms, a former Jewish refugee who emigrated to England as a student. He became a highly successful businessman and philanthropist who contributed to developing cultural, sporting and religious facilities in Jerusalem and Israel.

  6. Dresel family papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Dresel family including original documents, originals and translated correspondence, biographical material

  7. Wegrzyn family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.Wegrzyn family papers including are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emig...

  8. Papers regarding Erich Wolfsfeld

    This collection consists of papers relating to German Jewish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, Erich Wolfsfeld.Papers Including mainly press cuttings regarding his exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, drawings, photographs and correspondence from Franka Minden. Also includes a short autobiography.

  9. Fairfield Documents: Documents re sterilisation in the Third Reich

    This collection of correspondence and personal papers of Letitia Fairfield, a prominent Catholic doctor and lawyer, deal in the main with subject of compulsory sterilisation, in particular in relation to the Nazi eugenics policy; and to the views of the Catholic Church on the subject.

  10. Lodz ghetto: various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of facsimile documentation from the Lodz ghetto comprises at least two separate deposits and sheds light on the controversial role of the chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Rumkowski. One of the documents in this collection is a fragment of a calendar covering part of the year 1942. The front bears an image of Rumkowski with the ghetto in the background and the month of January opens with the slogans 'work', 'bread', 'care of the sick', protection for the children', 'peace ...

  11. Hirsch family documents

    The papers in this collection document aspects of the life of Jonni Hirsch a Jewish Mischling, from Kiel, Schleswig-Hollstein, and of certain members on the Jewish side of his family. The papers are evidence of the way in which the lives of Jews in a German city became ever more difficult as a consequence of growing antisemitism. This is demonstrated in subtle ways by, for example, the copies of Abraham Hirsch's 19th century war record c1935 (-/4); the letters from shops and cafes requesting Jonni Hirsch not to frequent them because the customers do not like it (-/5, -/7, -/15); and the per...

  12. Eyewitness testimony collection

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists primarily of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who describe life before during and after the Nazi era. Most of the material focuses on the period of persecution. Some of the items in the collection are not testimonies per se but contemporary documents which were donated and later subsumed into this collection. These latter have nonetheless been catalogued and indexed in the same way as the testimonies.

  13. Max and Edith Greenwood: family papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the personal papers of Max and Edith Greenwood, former Jewish refugees from Germany. Max Greenwood was one of the first people who fled Germany in 1933 after his medical licence was withdrawn.Family papers including Max Greenwood's qualifications and medical thesis, probate, last will, death certificate and papers relating to his restitution claim; correspondence and papers relating to the estates of Alfred Heidenheimer, Max Greenwood and Rosa Hanauer; James Greenwood's school reports and ...

  14. Tony Berger collection

    This collection comprises the personal correspondence received by Tony Berger, a Jewish refugee from Duisburg who was the only one of her siblings to emigrate to England on a domestic visa. Despite her efforts to help her family leave the country, they did not manage to obtain the required documentation in time.Family letters of Tony Berger, mainly from her mother, siblings and grandparents, document her family's efforts and hopes for emigration with the help of Tony Berger's new contacts in England as well as Tony Berger's life in London as a refugee employed as a domestic maid. Also inclu...

  15. Ilse Sheldon: family correspondence

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains letters sent to Oskar Bart by his mother Josefine Bart-Eigner in Prague as well as a transcript of an interview with Ilse Sheldon (Josefine Bart-Eigner's daughter). Oscar had emigrated with his wife Erna and their daughter Eva to London in 1938 to escape Jewish persecutions. His sister Ilse emigrated to Palestine whilst their mother stayed behind in Prague and was later deported.

  16. Hans Schmoller: Family papers

    This collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of Hans Schmoller.Papers containing correspondence from Hans Peter Schmoller to his parents, Hans Israel and Marie Schmoller (1690/1) and other family members and friends, ranging from the time of his studies in London in the early 1930s to his emigration to Morija, Basutoland (now Lesotho) in 1938 and subsequent internment in Ganspan camp in 1939; detailed accounts by his parents of the persecutions and worsening conditions for Jews in Nazi Germany particularly after the November pogroms; and his parents' incarceration at Ther...

  17. Hans Litten: Correspondence

    This microfilm collection of correspondence of Irmgard Litten contains copy letters to her son whilst in concentration camps Lichtenburg and Dachau; copy correspondence to various authorities including Hitler, Hess and Göring asking for clemency; and some original letters from Hans Litten and various authorities. Most of it is typescript.

  18. Correspondence and papers regarding Georg August Welz

    This collection of correspondence relates to a letter which Elizabeth Castonier had published in the Süddeutscher Zeitung in August 1958, alleging the culpability of Professor Georg August Weltz, then Professor of X-Ray Physiology at the university of Munich, in war crimes, specifically medical experiments on prisoners to test how their bodies react to extremely cold temperatures. The collection includes a copy of an affidavit by Weltz, dated 1946. 

  19. Ruth Sommerfeld: papers relating to Werner Somsohn's publication

    This collection contains press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera').Press cuttings and correspondence from Werner Simsohn relating to his publication on the history of Jews in Gera, Thuringia ('Geschichte der Juden in Gera'). Also included are speeches held at the honorary citizen awards ceremony for Simsohn in 1998, and draft extract from his publication regarding the Jewish families from Gera bearing the name Wernik.German

  20. Switzerland and Jewish refugees: Reports by JUNA and other material

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material on the fate of Jews and Switzerland during the Nazi era, comprises several deposits, the first three of which share the same provenance, the other two being unrelated. Parts of this archive were used to create the three dossiers in this collection.The three dossiers, all produced in 1955, and apparently emanating from the same source, have been produced in the same format. Namely, an introductory essay on a topic punctuated by references to related transcript documents (Be...