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  1. Jüdische Gesangverein, Graz: Archives

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  3. Nazi-occupied Poland: stamp collection

    Stamps issued in Occupied Poland during World War Two with additional contextual information

  4. Esther Pauline Lloyd: camp diaries

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists of two surviving diaries of a British Jewish resident of Jersey, Channel Islands, whilst in internment camps first in Compiegne, France, and later Biberach, Germany. In addition to a daily account of life in the respective camps at Compiegne and Biberach, the diaries contain notes, addresses, recipes and draft letters.

  5. Nuremberg trial papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy and draft typescript documents pertaining to 'The High Command' case, No. 12 in the Nuremberg Trial Subsequent Proceedings

  6. Marx family documents

    This collection of papers consists of the immigration documentation of a German Jewish family who emigrated to Great Britain in the 1930s. The collection consists of paperwork generated by the British and American immigration authorities and documentation brought from Germany by the Marx family members.

  7. Irene White: papers relating to Eli Alkana and the Holocaust in Luckenwalde

    Readers should reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection consists of material relating to Eli Elkana (Georg Michelsohn), a Jewish poet and dentist from Dessau (now Saxony Anhalt), who was persecuted by the Nazis as early as 1932/33 for his opposing ideas and writings. He, his wife and his daughter managed to emigrate whilst other family members perished in the Holocaust.Personal papers Including Eli Elkana's manuscripts of 'Die Ritter von der weichen Birne' (1952) (1761/2) and 'Die Militär-Parade' (written as part of a letter to his daughter) (1761/1) as ...

  8. 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

  9. Hinrichsen Family Collection

    This collection comprises copy and original documents of the family and material relating to the business, especially post war. In addition there is material relating to restitution claims including stolen art works and miscellaneous printed material.

  11. Central British Fund: Reports and other papers re orphans

    These reports and memoranda of the Committee for the Care of Children from Camps, document, in part, the challenges encountered by receiving such a large group of refugees with all their attendant problems. Included are some pamphlets and brochures re the CBF activities with children from concentration camps.Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital copy of the 5 reports

  12. Paul Hollander: personal papers

    This collection of copy papers contains material which documents the activities of Paul Hollander, a German Jewish refugee in France who joined the French Foreign Legion at the beginning of World War II and was subsequently sent to a forced labour camp in North Africa. Of particular interest in this collection are reports on conditions in the labour camps of Colomb Behar, Kenadsa (Algeria) and Bour-Arfa (French Morocco) (963/11) and the prison camp of Hadjerat m'Guil (963/7)At 963/19 is a copy letter from Dr. C. F. J. Bergmann regarding the possibility of compensation payments from the Fren...

  13. Hubert Fritz and Liesette Nassau: Personal papers

    This collection documents the lives of Hubert Fritz and Liesette Nassau, an Austrian Jewish couple who emigrated to England in 1939. Contains correspondence relating to their efforts to emigrate and start a new life in England, gaining new qualifications and work as well as Hubert Nassau's indemnification claim and interest in sports.

  14. Dresner family collection

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  15. The Polish press in Post war Germany

    The Polish press in Post war Germany: a list of titles with place of publication arranged by zone of occupation 

  16. Muehlstein family collection

    This collection contains the family papers of the Muehlstein family, Jewish refugees from Vienna.Family papers including correspondence and supporting documents relating to restitution and pension claims and war-time Red Cross correspondence between parents and children. Also included is a photograph of Erika and Herbert Muehlstein before their emigration in 1937.In an audio interview the donor describes: being born in Vienna 2 years after her brother in 1932; how her father was beaten up and persecuted by the Nazis; how her brother, who was also badly affected followed his sister after a f...

  17. Kate Fielding collection

    The bulk of the collection consists of the personal papers of Kate Fielding née Käthe Lichtenstern. These include vital records and identity papers, various accounts of her life, her poetry and prose, her doctorate and related materials, letters to her family in Vienna sent from London and letters she received, many concerning her relatives captured by the Nazis. In addition there are materials belonging to her sister Edith, father Victor and mother Olga, as well as relatives still on the continent: her grandfather Carl Löw, uncle Hermann Löw, aunt Erna Löw and Erna’s mother Minna Bernstei...

  18. Copy report of transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk

    This is an apparently authentic certified copy of a report about a transport of Jews from Düsseldorf to Minsk, which commenced on 10 November 1941. The author was Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei, Meurin. The document is countersigned by Oberwachtmeister der Sch[utzpolizei?] [illegible]. Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city's Jews. The description of the embarkatio...

  20. Erich and Magdalena Schulhof: family papers

    This collection consists of the family papers of Erich and Magdalena Schulhof, a Jewish family who fled Berlin after they were forced to sell their business due to the increasing Aryanisation of Nazi-Germany in the late 1930s.Personal papers including the couple's school reports and qualifications; birth, death and baptism certificates; naturalisation certificate; passports; papers relating to Erich Schulhof's work and the family's restitution claim; correspondence with family and friends; family portraits and copy of the family history. Also included are the papers of their children and th...