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

  1. World Jewish Congress: various reports

    This collection consists of reports, communiqués and newsletter from the World Jewish Congress regarding the situation of Jews in Austria and Yugoslavia.

  2. Sandberg family: copy correspondence

    This collection of copy correspondence with transcript consists of letters written by Jewish parents to their daughter in the 1930s and just prior to the daughter's emigration to Great Britain on the Kindertransport.

  3. Werner Rüdenberg: correspondence

    The correspondence consists of bundles which contain carbon copy letters of Werner and Anni Rüdenberg arranged chronologically by date of authorship with original letters from the respective correspondents by date of receipt. This is a relatively large collection of correspondence, a much of which covers Germany during the Nazi period. Yet, according to a sample reading, it appears that very little, if any, of the content documents the experiences of this Jewish family under the Nazis. It seems to be concerned overwhelmingly with the affairs of the family and friends and the experiences of ...

  4. Sekretariat Warburg, 1938-1941: account of its activities by Robert Solnitz

    This typescript report gives an account of the activities of the Sekretariat Warburg, a charitable institution, whose objective was to assist Jews in Hamburg during the Nazi era and was funded by the Warburg banking family. The author is Robert Solnitz, former head of the organisation. It was written in Los Angeles in 1975.

  5. Copy German army documents re invasion of Great Britain

    Copy documents re the planned German invasion of Great Britain, 1940.

  6. Documents re antisemitism and ritual murder

    This collection of copy newspaper articles and letters focuses on a special issue of Der Stürmer on ritual murder, which caused concern in the British Jewish community.

  7. Protocols of the Elders of Zion: statement re their reliability

    This is a copy of an authenticated statement by Philip P Graves, former correspondent of the Times, which confirms that the content of a pamphlet entitled The Truth about the 'Protocols'- a Literary Forgery is true. The pamphlet comprises 3 articles written by the above author and published in The Times in August 1921, all of which assert that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery. It appears that the statement was made in relation to the trial in Berne regarding the reliability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The statement is addressed to a court in Berne, Switzerl...

  8. Nazi prosecution of Freemasons on Jersey: copy documents

    These copy papers document Nazi fascination for and persecution of Freemasonry on the island of Jersey, Channel Islands, in the immediate aftermath of the looting of Jersey's Masonic Temple in 1941.

  9. Maria Nermi-Egounoff, Hungarian opera singer: copy documents

    This miscellaneous collection of copy documentation consists of a cv of Maria Nermi- Egounoff, replete with reviews from various newspapers of her work; short biographies of British residents of Hungarian extraction who were apparently antisemitic [how they were known to the depositor is not made clear]; copy newspaper articles and scribbled biographical notes.

  10. Hermann Claudius: copy official papers

    This collection consists of copy official documents mostly declarations of income for the Reichsschriftumskammer of Hermann Claudius, poet and author.

  11. Birkenau: copy report re poison trace

    This collection comprises documents concerning the existence of poison traces in the debris taken from the crematorium at the death camp of Birkenau. It includes a request (887/1) from the Committee Investigating German War Crimes in Poland to the Institute of Toxicological Experts in Krakau to investigate and report on the extent to which various items salvaged from Birkenau contain traces of poison. the items include 25.5 kg of human hair; zinc metal sheets which covered the vent openings of the crematoria; mortar from the walls; and various metal objects. The report (887/2) concludes tha...

  12. Hermann Maas and Paul Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    This is a collection of post-war copy correspondence between Hermann Maas, a German protestant minister, and two siblings, Jewish 'Mischlinge' emigrés, whom Maas helped to save from the Nazis.

  13. Letter of unidentified Holocaust survivor

    Letter written by a former resident of Prague and inmate of Theresienstadt who emigrated to Canada.

  15. Moritz Plaut: biography

    This biography of Moritz Plaut, a banker, and resident of Berlin (1822-1910) was written by his daughters, Franziska Model, Margarethe Lehmann, Susanne Blumenthal and published, with original photographs pasted in, in June 1922.

  17. Rozalia Nowak-Becke: copy personal papers

    This collection of copy personal papers of Rozalia Nowak-Becke, holocaust survivor, consists of her Polish passport, references, letters and newspaper cuttings.

  18. Dr. Hans Wollenberg: correspondence

    This is a collection of letters received by Dr. Hans Werner Wollenberg from his family, mainly his grandmother in Berlin and his parents in Königsberg, but also brothers and cousins. The volume also includes some letters he wrote to his parents as a student in Munich.The correspondence begins with a few letters congratulating him on his success at school and on passing his final school exam in 1910. The bulk of the letters were written in 1911 when he was studying medicine at Munich. There is quite a lot of correspondence about money and the necessity to be very careful with it. The highlig...

  19. Dr. Lilli Segal: correspondence and papers

    This collection consists of mostly copy correspondence between Lilli Segal and various individuals and organisations covering such subjects as the debate over how many people were murdered during the Holocaust; the activities of Nazi doctors; the extermination of Jews, Gypsies and Russians in Auschwitz; and concentration camp memorials.

  20. Frank Collins: personal papers

    The collection comprises both original and copy material.