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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

  3. Report re the rescue of Jewish children in Belgium

    This copy translation of a report by Maurice Heiber detailing his exploits saving Jewish children in Belgium, was translated by his niece, Enid Wistrich, while she was still a school girl.

  4. Herbert Engel: Copy personal papers

    These copy documents provide a rare insight into the effects of Nazism and its demise on the German population.

  5. Ellinor Adler: Family documents

    This collection of family documents describes the plight of a Viennese family: an aryan woman, her Jewish husband and their daughter. In addition to some original documentation, there are 2 personal accounts by the mother, Maria Goldschmied, which cover the period from the arrival of the Nazis to the 1970s when she used to still visit her native Austria. Of particular interest are the memoirs at 1319/11-12 and material relating to Alwin Goldschmied's arrest, including a visitor's pass allowing his wife to visit him in prison which was retained and used to rebut official denials that he was ...

  6. Lisbeth Perks: Copy correspondence, some of it from Terezin.

    This copy correspondence featured in a published memoir by the depositor, some of which includes letters from family members in Terezin. The originals had been lost by the publishers. The collection consists of photocopies of the originals, typescript transcripts and translations.

  7. Lisa Grant: Family papers

    This miscellaneous collection of family papers documents the activities of a German Jewish family. It includes material on the aryanisation of the family business and the receipt of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz für Kriegshilfe, for service during the First World War. Some of the material is original.

  8. Peter Johnson: Personal papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of Peter Johnson's personal papers documents his life up until the immediate post-war period. It includes school reports, family correspondence, documents re naturalisation, papers relating to his service in military intelligence, and papers relating to the former Jewish population in Hildesheim, where he was stationed at the end of the war. Also deposited by Peter Johnson, the bulk of which collection relates to the activities of the refugee social club 'Hyphen', of which he was one of the foun...

  9. Sonderfahndungsliste

    This is believed to be a typescript transcript of an Associated Press telex containing the names on the infamous Nazi Black List, a facsimile copy of which the Wiener Library holds. The list contains the names of all those whom the Nazis regarded as a potential threat to their plans and would therefore be arrested after the successful invasion of Great Britain. Details about the form and content of this edition are unknown (the depositor purchased it from a dealer)

  11. Charlotte Salomon exhibition, Royal Academy: ephemera

    This collection comprises leaflets, fliers and other ephemera relating to an exhibition of the works of Charlotte Salomon, which took place at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1998.

  12. Antisemitic Biersteins: papers re identification

    The papers include descriptions of the tankards from experts at museums in Frankfurt and Munich; photographs of the tankards; correspondence between Wiener Library staff and various institutions re the tankards.

  13. Morgan and Morgan-Ruffner papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, draft play scripts, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, news cuttings, photographs and ephemera, which together document the lives of an Austrian Jewish actor who died at Buchenwald before the war and his wife who became a prominent journalist and socialite.

  14. Reverend Wernham: Correspondence

    Correspondence of Reverend Wernham including material relating to his activities assisting German and Austrian Jewish refugeesThis collection of correspondence of the Reverend Wernham contains letters, which document his assistance to German Jewish refugees just before and after the outbreak of war. Also included is material documenting German attitudes to the political situation immediately prior to the outbreak of war.

  15. Torah Scrolls: Various papers

    Two Czech Torah scrolls were deposited on permanent loan to the Northwood and Pinner Synagogue from the towns of Kolin and Trebon. It was decided to research the history and background to these scrolls. The content of this collection is the result of that research.

  16. Former Terezin inmate: Letter

    Letter from Jella Caro, former Terezin inmate, to relativesGerman 1 pageIn the letter she describes the deleterious effect on her health of 3 years in Terezin. Freezing cold and alone at an address in post-war Vienna, which functioned as a home for Jewish returnees, she describes how pleased she is to hear from her (unidentified) relatives and asks after them.

  17. Copy letter from Hela Cymerman to Lucian Blit

    This copy letter in Yiddish with English translation was addressed to the father of the depositor, and describes the fate of the depositor's mother, who survived the Warsaw ghetto only to be murdered at Majdanek.

  18. Account re Kristallnacht

    An account of Kristallnacht by Vincent C. Frank in Berlin who holds the view that it was meticulously plannedGerman 5 pages 

  19. Account of Paul Loebl's war-time experiences

    This report is described as a translation of a report to the Director of the VAD. The original is thought to have been in German. It is not known what the VAD is. Paul Loebl spent time in Belgium and in the concentration camps of St. Cyprien and Gurs.

  20. Philipp Manes Collection

    This is a collection of original papers of Philipp Manes, former fur trader, resident of Berlin and later inmate of Terezin, from where he was sent to his death at Auschwitz with his wife in 1944.