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

  1. Copy papers concerning Karl Wittig

    This collection of copy papers documents the experiences of Karl Wittig in Germany during the Nazi era and in the immediate postwar years. The papers include sworn statements by various witnesses (including Pastor Martin Niemöller) who testify to his incarceration in various concentration camps.

  2. Rita Hauser: school report, Isle of Man internment camp

    This is an original school report of Rita Hauser, interned on the Isle of Man at Port St Mary and attending 'Y' Camp school.

  3. Isaac Coutinho: copy testament

    This collection consists of the copy testament of Isaac Couthino, dated 1897, Hamburg, and authenticated on 17 November 1964. It also contains a copy newspaper article reporting on the murder of Mrs Carmen Blanck-Sichel.

  4. Central British Fund for German Jewry: list of contributers

    This collection comprises lists of contributors to the Central British Fund for German Jewry and an apparently post-war appeal leaflet.

  5. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  6. Hutchinson internment camp, Isle of Man: copy documents

    The originals of this copy documentation deposited by a former inmate of Hutchinson internment camp, Isle of Man, appear to have been part of an exhibition depicting various aspects of the cultural and social life of the inmates.

  7. Hay internment camp, New South Wales, Australia: copy camp magazine

    This collection appears to consist of two separate deposits, the provenance of which is not known. The first item is a copy of the Camp 7 Hay magazine Boomerang. The second is a woodcut image of the camp, dated 1940-1.

  8. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  9. Oppenheim: copy family documents

    This collection of copy family documents sheds some light on the fate of the Oppenheim family from Kassel.

  10. Otto Ernst Remer: copy report

    Copy manuscript account apparently by Major General Otto Ernst Remer about his activities on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. The document is dated 2 April 1946. It is possible that the account was written whilst Remer was in custody during the period of de-nazification after the war. A note states that the first two pages were missing and that these had been supplied at a later date by a different depositor (G. Fleming).

  11. Irmgard Smurka: copy papers

    These copy personal papers of Irmgard Smurka (née Klinger) document the life of a German Jewish resident of Berlin who emigrated to Great Britain after the war. The papers include school certificates; birth, marriage and death certificates; job references, etc. Of particular interest is an affidavit of 1961 submitted by Irmgard Smurka in support of a claim for compensation, in which she details the victimisation she endured during the nazi era (-/14). In addition there are manuscript (-/17) and typescript (-/18) accounts of her experiences written in German for Yad Vashem. The above items p...

  12. Bing family: papers

    This collection comprises four separate deposits of material regarding different members of the same family.The first deposit (867/1) consists of copies of 3 letters written by a woman in a collection centre (Sammlunglager) in Berlin in June 1943. She was subsequently deported to Auschwitz where she almost certainly died. The letters are significant because they offer a rare insight into conditions in such an establishment and document the growing level of despair amongst those who were transported. In the final letter she seems certain of her fate- that theirs will be the last “Polentransp...

  13. Klara Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    Copy correspondence from a German Jewish woman inmate of a number of French concentration camps. Klara Rosenzweig, the author of the correspondence, writes to her children and husband, who reside in Scotland, describing conditions in the camps etc.

  14. Norbert Zils: letter re Marianne Isaac

    This copy letter was given to the depositor by the recipient, Ruth Wolf. Ruth Wolf had earlier responded to a letter to a Birmingham newspaper from the same author, requesting information on the whereabouts of Marianne Isaac. It appears that the author, Norbert Zils, a history teacher from a small town in (West) Germany, was trying to put together an exhibition on the fate of the town's Jews. He was particularly concerned that the local people do not succeed in repressing knowledge of events which took place during the nazi era.

  15. Copy documents re 1936 Olympics

    Copy documents concerning preparations for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

  16. Jews in Berlin at the beginning of 1942: a report

    This typescript report on conditions in Berlin is the product of a conversation with a Jewish woman who left Berlin in the beginning of 1942 and arrived in London in October of that year.

  17. 'Memories of Douglas: Isle of Man' by Hugo Rosenstock

    This collection consists of two items: an original illustrated account of life as an internee of an internment camp on Douglas, isle of Man, 1940-1941 and an undated typescript family history by another family member. The first item comprises a series of individual sketches of camp life mostly in verse form, which have subsequently been bound together and foliated. A contents page, though no introduction completes the volume.

  18. Kurt Sabatsky: reports on leading Nazis and incidents of Jewish persecution

    This collection consists of typescript reports about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution. Many of the reports are written in the first person. In the last report (-/23), an account of the author's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen, the author reveals his identity - Kurt Sabatsky, formerly District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library. At -/13 is a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representative...

  19. Löw family papers

    This collection comprises a copy typescript history of the Löw family written by Alfred Löw in 1933 and a copy manuscript mid 18th century list of privileged and non-privileged Jews.

  20. Anti-German protest and prayer meetings, Great Britain: leaflets

    This collection consists of original leaflets advertising anti-German protest meetings and exhorting readers to boycott German products in the light of increasing discrimination against Jews in Germany. A number of British Jewish interest groups and political groups are represented. There is also a series of prayers on behalf of 'our bretheren in Germany' produced by the office of the Chief Rabbi.A note in the collection states that the non-religious material originally appeared in shop windows throughout the East End.All of the material is in English and the prayers are also in Hebrew.