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

  2. Material relating to the persecution of the Gypsies under the Nazis

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content except 611/17

  4. Bernhard Lösener: statement under oath

    This typescript, annotated, statement by Bernhard Lösener, the former so-called 'racial expert' of the Third Reich, bears the original signature of Bernhard Lösener and is authenticated by the original signature of Walter Speyer, Allied Civilian AGO 20194.

  5. Documents on occupied Norway

    German documents on occupied Normandy, above all addressing propaganda and education.

  6. Annie Jacob: Personal account

    Annie Jacob: personal account of the war years including  a period of incarceration at Gurs internment camp 

  7. Regensburger family papers

    This collection of papers concerns the experiences of a German Jewish family which settled in Great Britain in 1939.

  9. Paul Plaut: correspondence

    The collection is entirely non-political. Unintentionally it is, however, a vivid illustration of the 'brain drain' which hit Germany and Austria a few years later. A large number of contributors were amongst the best known emigrants. Some did not survive the Holocaust.The responses are arranged alphabetically by correspondent into folders, 647/1-25. A few of the responses which are not related to Plaut's book have been subsumed into the main alphabetical series. At folder 647/26 there are some unidentified letters. At folder 647/ 27 is a hand written list of correspondents. At folder 647/2...

  11. B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck (London) Lodges: archives

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentComprising documents, including bound reports, volumes, and index cards as well as some photographs and single objects, the collection includes the organisational papers of the Leo Baeck (London) Lodges and their affiliated bodies. Spanning more than seven decades, the material covers the complete period of the Lodges’ existence. The preserved papers appear, however, to be incomplete and only part of an originally larger bulk of material.The documents provide an overview of the organisational structures of the Leo Ba...

  13. Leonard Montefiore collection

    Leonard Montefiore collection comprising draft writings, correspondence, printed material and press cuttings documenting his life and work

  14. Thomas Cook and Son Ltd: Storage record book

    This storage record book of Thomas Cook's Lisbon depot, is thought to be significant because it apparently contains the names of many Jews who left possessions during the years 1942-1943, much of which remained unclaimed, and was presumably disposed of by Thomas Cook staff in due course. The following notes were supplied by the depositor, who was (in 1977-1978) the Thomas Cook General Manager for Europe and who retrieved the volume from the Lisbon office of Thomas Cook

  15. Josef Rosenbaum collection

    Correspondence and identity documents

  17. Gestapo HQ Berlin: copy order re dissolution of B'nai Brith, Berlin

    Copy order from the Gestapo Headquarters, Berlin, to the chair of the B'nai Brith, Berlin, stating that B'nai Brith will be dissolved forthwith and that all the organisation's property will be confiscated (19 Apr 1937) copy nd

  18. Leaflet on regulations re life in Nazi Germany - no date

    This is a fragment of a leaflet containing regulations on various aspects of social and cultural life in Nazi Germany. Subjects covered in the leaflet include matters concerning the concept of the German Race; change of name/ title of unmarried women; Hitler Youth; travel and restaurant coupons; income from sub-letting; working clothes for farmers; memorial notices for soldiers killed in the war.

  19. Jewish Youth Federation, Holland: Copy report of 22nd AGM

    Report on the 22nd AGM of the Joodsche Jeugd Federatie (Jewish Youth Federation) 

  20. Passover Haggadah, handwritten at Gurs internment camp, France

    Original manuscript Passover Haggadah in Hebrew with transliteration, edited by Leo Ansbacher at Gurs internment camp, France. Covering Date: Apr 1941