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

  1. Papers re Berthold Goldschmidt

    Copy mostly printed material re the composer Berthold Goldschmidt

  2. Dr Max Dienemann: Divorce according to civil and Jewish law: A Treatise

    The papers in this collection document the views of a liberal rabbi in Germany as they relate to reform of the divorce laws in the late 1920s and 1930s

  5. Ruth Singer collection

    Various passports and id cards

  6. Steinhardt family papers

    Contains mostly documents related to the family's immigration to UK in 1939

  7. Si Frumkin: autobiographical and other writings

    This collection consists mostly of some articles by Si Frumkin on Soviet Jewry and the fate of the Jewish population in Lithuania in general and his family in particular.

  9. Wilhelm Keitel: Letter re promotion of Pinckvoss

    Original letter from Wilhelm Keitel, chief of staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, to General Dollmann regarding the promotion of ‘Pinckvoss'.

  10. German Jewish doctors: List of suicides/ murdered

    List of German Jewish doctors who either committed suicide or were murdered between 1933 and 1939.

  11. Rolf Oppenheimer: family papers

    This collection comprises one folder containing the personal papers of Rolf Oppenheimer including his father's WWI Iron Cross certificate, work references, RAF application papers, naturalisation papers; also his uncle, Walter Fels' restitution claim including an affidavit from Ernst Niquet confirming that he hid Walter Fels in Berlin during the latter years of the war. In an audio interview the donor describes life in Berlin during the Novemberpogrom, 1938 prior to coming to Great Britain, including his membership of the Hitler Youth; details of the desperation of residents trying to l...

  12. Brussels Relief Committee: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfim collection of miscellaneous reports and papers documents the fate of Belgian Jewry during WWII.Belgian Information Center: Information regarding radio broadcasts on 16 and 17 July 1942, frames 1-6American Joint Distribution Committee publication: Liste des Israelites liberés de Camps d'Allemagne et arrives en Belgique, 31 July 1946, frames 7-27Typed extract from the 'Bulletin d'information No. 3 du conseil des Association Juives de Belgique': Manifestation Publique de Reconnaissance au ...

  13. Podhorcer family documents

    This collection of family documents consists of official papers such as copy birth, marriage and death certificates of an Austrian Jewish couple, who, it is assumed managed to escape to Great Britain just before the war (certificates declaring the couple's payment of any outstanding debts to the state are dated 1939).

  14. Travelling Exhibition 'The Wandering Jew': Antisemitic postcards

    2 postcards from the exhibition 'The Wandering Jew', with postmark Bremen, 1939

  16. Miscellaneous eyewitness testimonies

    This collection of miscellaneous testimonies and reports were originally arranged for inclusion in the Wiener Library's 'Eyewitness Accounts' series but were never included (hence the former reference numbers).Information regarding provenance, where known, is included in the description to individual reports.

  17. Press cutting about 'die Jüdische Front'

    This press cutting from the Schaerdinger Wochenblatt, 12th of June 1937, reports a call of the Austrian “Bund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten” in its official periodical “Die Jüdische Front” to defend Jews against antisemitism and to donate money for this aim. It uses this call to connect it with antisemitic stereotypes.

  19. Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck

    Correspondence and papers of Leo Baeck including typescript notes of a meeting between Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Leo Baeck, October 1955 (1156/9)This collection of correspondence between Leo Baeck and Mrs Ilse Grimbly, Leo Baeck's former secretary, is mostly of an ephemeral nature.

  20. Antisemitism in Poland: reports re Jewish schools

    This collection comprises two reports on the situation of Jewish schools in Poland in 1931 and 1937 respectively. The first focuses on the effect of the anti-Jewish boycott movement; the fears of further restricted entry into the teaching profession; the failure of the Polish Socialist Party in opposing the antisemitic measures and the need for well known writers and professors to voice their disapproval of the current trend. The other report (date of receipt February 1937) provides statistics on the state of school provision for Jewish school children and describes the extent of poverty an...