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Instytucja przechowująca materiał: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
  1. Rosenthal family: copy Gestapo documents

    This collection contains copies of the files of the Rosenthal family compiled by the Gestapo. The Jewish family was forced to emigrate from Berlin in 1943. The documents include 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. Family register of the Dann family

    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.

  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. 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 (1697/4), inheritance, the sale of a property in Stuttgart as well as financial a...

  4. Grete Exiner: papers relating to Palestine & Orient Lloyd travel bureau

    This collection contains papers relating to the business of Palestine & Orient Lloyd G.m.b.H travel bureau. Included is 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 at the ...

  5. Rudolf, Philipp and Eva Manes: personal papers and correspondence

    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). Rudolf Manes was the oldest son of Gertrud Elias and Philipp Manes. Philipp Manes was a German Jewish fur trader who was deported to Terezin concentration camp and perished with his wife in Auschwitz in 1944. Rudolf Manes wrote the diary from 1939 to 1943 whilst in internment and serving with the Foreign Legion. He stopped writing when he was back in regular contact with his sisters who had emigrated to England. In the diary he provides ...

  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 (1910-2008): 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. Included are papers concerning exhibitions and educational programmes relating to his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust organised by Westerbork Centre Museum and the Jewish Museum in London including responses to the exhibitions from school children (1701/1); the publication of a book on his experiences during the Holocaust (1701/2); pre...

  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 ('Poesiealbu...

  9. George and Henni Lesley: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish couple, George and Henni Lesley. Both emigrated to escape Nazi persecutions in Germany. Included are a copy of the protective custody order and release form for Henni Lesley ('Schutzhaftbefehl') (1703/2), photocopy of an embroidered handkerchief made whilst in custody (1703/4), medical certificate of Henni Lesley (1703/3), birth certificate of George Lesley (1703/5), copy declaration form of acquisition of British nationality (1703/13), correspondence from the American Joint Distribution Committee regarding the fate of Henni's paren...

  10. Kuttner, Godlewsky, Speyer and Marx family histories: papers

    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: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Senta Hirtz, Medau technique teacher and physiotherapist, who emigrated to London as a refugee in 1936. She was involved in the work of the Jewish Relief Unit and supported displaced people in Germany after the Second World War. The papers include 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 (1705/1/9) describing the conditions at the hospital, search office and ...

  12. Georg Fuchs: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence from Dr Georg Fuchs, who emigrated to Stockholm in 1939, from his family in Czechoslovakia and later from his mother in the Warshaw Ghetto. Several members of his family died in the Holocaust at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Also included are letters between him 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 Fuchs's brief biographical account, copy press cutting regarding the war crimes tri...

  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. The letters concern efforts to arrange for emigration, living conditions for refugees going to America and updates on the lives of family members and friends.

  14. Albert Süsskind: personal papers

    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 concerns earlier generations of the family who lived in the 19th century. It includes Selma Wolffing's certificates of the Royal School of Music in Würzburg and correspondence regarding her musical performances at the Club Français and the Zionistische Vereinigung Würzburg; release certificates of the Royal Bavarian Army of Isidor Wolffing and Si...

  16. Margot Weinberg: personal correspondence

    This collection contains letters sent to Margot Weinberg by her family in Berlin. Margot Weinberg emigrated to Johannesburg from Nazi-Germany in c 1936. Also includes 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

    This collection contains the personal papers and correspondence of Edith and Kurt Brent. Both were German Jewish refugees emigrating to England in 1939 whilst other members of their families died in the Holocaust. Edith and Kurt met in England and were married in 1950. The documents include 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 licence, British army soldier's service a...

  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. The letters provide 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...

  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'). 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 of family members during the Holocaust, his and his wife's escape from Stettin, Western Pommerania (now Szczecin, Poland) to Berlin in 1940, their lives in hiding ("U-boot") and in fear of bombings, their deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp in February 1945, and the...

  20. Putzel family: copy papers and Red Cross correspondence

    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).