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

  1. Miscellaneous collections

    This collection of documents and images came about as the consequence of an appeal made in the May 1962 issue of the AJR Information, by the Council for Jews from Germany, for memorabilia and documents of Germany Jewry, of historical and artistic value, for the Memorial Hall to German Jewry at the Wiener Library.

  2. Special collections

    The so-called 'Special Collection' is an artificial collection of numerous deposits from a variety of sources, the provenance of which was frequently not recorded.It contains a lot of propaganda material, anti-Semitic, anti-Nazi and anti-Communist; also id documents; personal papers; ephemera; documents re POWs; various currencies and artefacts; political leaflets etc.

  3. Franziska Willer collection

    This collection contains original correspondence, personal memoir, compensation claim material, photographs and ephemera.Included in the digital files are the photographs (1950_3); some transcribed and translated correspondence of Hanne Willer and some contemporary research material documenting Franziska's efforts to extricate her non-aryan Christian children (1950_1)

  4. Nazi boycott of Jewish shops: Letter of justification

    Nazi boycott of Jewish shops: Letter of justification 

  5. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg: Letter re Spear family

    Copy letter from Bernhard Rolle of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Nuremberg, to Hans Spear of Enfield Middlesex re the fate of his familyGerman 

  6. Moses and Wolf Blau: short biographical statements

    It is not known in which context these two original signed statements by Moses Blau and his son Wolf, German Jewish refugees in Amsterdam were made. However the formal presentation and details contained therein suggest that the document was created as part of a process of registration possibly with the Dutch authorities or a Jewish relief organisation.

  7. Dr Robert Michaelis: working papers for book on the Dreyfus affair

    This collection consists of the working papers of Dr. Robert Michaelis for his two publications on the Dreyfus affair.

  8. Various copy documents re Jewish education during the Third Reich

    Copy papers which document discrimination against Jewish educational institutions and professionals during the Nazi era. The subject matter ranges from dismissal on racial grounds of Jewish academics from 1933, through the separation of aryan and non-aryan instruction, c1938, to the closure of Jewish schools, 1941-1942. A substantial part of the material relates to institutions in Köln and Frankfurt a. M..This collection originally consisted of four separate collections (801, 801a, 801b, 801c).

  9. Copy letter from Göring to Reichsminister des Innern

    Copy letter from Göring to Reichsminister des Innern asking him to do everything to promote the emigration of Jews 

  10. NSDAP Auswaertigesamt: Copy papers re Jews in Spain and Portugal

    Various copy letters and reports re Jews in Spain and Portugal including 2 separate reports of a meeting of the ‘jüdischen Kulturverein in Barcelona, 24 March 1936 [-/4 & 5], which was apparently founded by expatriate German JewsGermanThe subject matter ranges from reports on the situation of Jews in Germany to reports on the proceedings of meetings of Jewish cultural groups in Spain and Portugal, c1936.

  11. Article on Kafka

    In addition there is a note from a producer of the BBC's 'Third Programme', regarding a possible talk by Robert Weltsch on Franz Kafka, who also knew him quite well.

  13. Material re Holocaust testimony

    This collection of papers concerns the creation and preservation of personal testimonies relating to the Holocaust, including correspondence from the Imperial War Museum and the Shoah Foundation.

  14. Fate of Jews, Vienna: Confidential

    Confidential notice from the Gestapo, Darmstadt, to various officials in the state of Hesse, regarding measures taken against the Jewish population of Vienna, by the police authorities there. 

  16. Emil Fuchs collection

    Emil Fuchs: Correspondence and papers comprising letters mostly written by Emil and Paula Fuchs in Vienna to their children  in Great Britain; also some copy documentation

  17. Hebrew Committee of National Liberation: Copy letter re settlement in Palestine

    Copy letter from Hillel Kook aka Peter Bergson, chairman of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, to Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in which he explains in some detail his ideas for the settlement of Palestine.English 23 pages 

  19. Heydecker: family papers

    This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of the Heydecker family, German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Great Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

  20. Material on 'Rassenkunde' and 'Rassenhygiene'

    This collection comprises miscellaneous articles, book reviews and other papers on the subject of ethnology and racial doctrine, much of which espousing Nazi racial ideology.