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Instytucja przechowująca materiał: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
  1. Epstein family: photographs and correspondence

    This collection contains photographs and a family tree relating to the Epstein family, a large Jewish family from Frankfurt. Also included is a notebook of poetry and correspondence addressed to Adelheid Heinemann who fled Nazi Germany with her husband, son and mother.

  2. Friedrich Falk: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Friedrich Falk, a Jewish lawyer from Dusseldorf who emigrated on the Kitchener camp scheme to England intending to move to Palestine to escape Nazi persecutions. Included are his qualifications and work references, various police certificates confirming his places of residence as well as correspondence with the Jewish Agency for Palestine Berlin regarding his application for emigration. Also included is correspondence regarding his inheritance and genealogical research.

  3. Zappert family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment under the Nazi regime in 1938. His son Karl and his family also escaped further persecutions by going to England via Denmark. Wolf Zappert's papers include title deeds and other papers...

  4. Freddie Knoller: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecutions after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers survived in England and the United States respectively. Included are letters (with translations) from Freddie Knoller's parents, mainly addressed to his brother Erich, giving an insight into their f...

  5. Kupfer family papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Kupfer family, former Jewish refugees from Germany. Erich Kupfer was the grandson of the owner of the first shoe manufacturing company in Burgkunstadt and followed in his footsteps. He emigrated to the United States in 1938 to escape Nazi persecutions but his parents, uncle and grandmother were deported and murdered in concentration camps. His wife Ruth Kupfer (née Landau) fled to England in 1939. Her parents also perished in the Holocaust. Included are papers relating to the family's restitution claims and pensions (1849/1-2); personal documents s...

  6. Thea Wessley: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence received by Thea Wessley in England from her family and friends in Austria. Thea Wessley, a Jewish girl from Vienna, was sent to England in 1939 in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her parents, Siegfried and Fanny Deuches, were separated and perished in concentration camps in the Holocaust. The letters were mainly sent by her parents as well as her grandfather Hermann Zwicker, and other relations and friends. The correspondence documents the life of an Austrian refugee girl in England, the worries of her parents about her health, education and well-b...

  7. Linton (Liebermann) family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Louis Alexander Linton (formerly Ludwig Alexander Liebermann) and Susan Maria Linton (née Susanne Marie Friedmann), Jewish refugees from Berlin. Louis Linton was advised not to return from a business trip to England due to the anti-Semitic climate in Nazi Germany. His wife and children followed him a few months later in 1937. Susan Linton's father, Leopold Friedmann, died on the journey to Argentina when he and his wife Maria Friedmann fled Nazi-Germany in 1940. The records document the Linton family's emigration, internment and new life in En...

  8. Max Wolf: correspondence regarding the emigration of Eugen Wolf's family

    This collection contains correspondence of Max Wolf of London relating to the emigration of his cousin Eugen Wolf, together with his wife Johanna and their daughter Marianne. The Jewish family did not manage to emigrate from Nazi Germany before the outbreak of the Second World War. They were deported and perished at Minsk Ghetto. Includes correspondence with the German Jewish Aid Committee, personal correspondence between Max and Eugen Wolf, and Eugen Wolf's CV.

  9. Heidemann family papers

    This collection contains the papers (photocopies) of the Heidemanns, a Jewish family from Hamburg. Only their daughter Ruth managed to emigrate to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Her parents decided not to join her as they were waiting for visas to emigrate to the United States. They were later deported and perished at Riga concentration camp. Included are correspondence with friends and relatives in London and the U.S. regarding arrangements for emigration, correspondence addressed to Ruth in England from her parents, and copies of Ruth's qualifications. Also i...

  10. Lasker family papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau. The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished. Included are an inventory of personal belongings and related correspondence. The inventory was drawn up on the day of the parents' deportation in April 1942. The correspondence concerns missing items and arrangements for the children to be moved to a home for Jewish children.

  11. Wegrzyn family papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Included are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emigration and the appalli...

  12. Concentration camp correspondence from various prisoners

    This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at R...

  13. Ludwig Steiner: Dachau concentration camp release permit

    This collection contains a photocopy of Ludwig Steiner's release permit ('Entlassungsschein') from Dachau concentration camp. Due to his Jewish background Steiner was arrested and spent one year at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg and later Dachau concentration camp before being released mortally ill in September 1940.