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

  1. Bernhard Lösener: statement under oath

    This typescript, annotated, statement by Bernhard Lösener, the former so-called 'racial expert' of the Third Reich, bears the original signature of Bernhard Lösener and is authenticated by the original signature of Walter Speyer, Allied Civilian AGO 20194.

  2. Bernhard Reichenbach: Correspondence and papers

    These papers document the post-war journalistic and broadcasting activities of Bernhard Reichenbach, former actor, political party official, journalist and refugee from Nazi Germany.The papers consist largely of annotated drafts of broadcast transcripts, produced for the German radio station, Süddeutscher Rundfunk. They cover a wide range of subjects providing, for the German audience, an insight into the economic, social and political life of Britain, 1963-1974. Also included are book reviews and correspondence.

  3. Berta Einstein: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Jewish refugee Berta Einstein who emigrated to London in 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War.Personal papers Including birth certificate, qualifications, work references, letter of recommendation by the Jewish Religious Committee of Memmingen, correspondence with the Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees regarding her application for work in England, list of items taken to England, medical certificate as well as photographs and correspondence with family and friends.

  4. Berta Haas nee Baer: family documents

    Claim form for purchase of grave plot at Karlsruhe Jewish cemetery, from Julius Haas (1904); copy official documentation including a letter from the local mayor informing Berta Haas of her compulsory name change- to include ‘Sara' (1938) 

  5. Bertha and Karl Weiss papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Bertha and Karl Weiss, Jewish former residents of Berlin whose families originated in Poland. Also contained are papers relating to various restitution and pension claimsReaders need to reserve a reading room terminal to access some digital photographs

  6. Bertha Pappenheim: Copy letter

    Copy letter of Bertha Pappenheim, dated FrankfurtBarely legible 

  8. Betty Wixon: correspondence re estate and pension

    This collection contains correspondence relating to the estate of Betty Wixon (née Davidsohn) and her German pension awarded for loss of earnings under the Hitler regime.Correspondence re estate and a copy of her death certificate and draft affidavit for Betty Wixon's restitution claim.

  11. 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...

  12. Biographical article on Hans Kohn

    Draft article by Robert Weltsch entitled: "Hans Kohn: Interpreter and Historian of Nationalism" 

  13. 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...

  14. Blanche Eichel collection

    Blanche Eichel was born Blanka Bachner to Julius (b. 13/02/1874) and Etel (née Weiss, b. 22/01/1878) on 24 April 1913 in Trstená. Her family were German speaking. She must have come to Britain in 1939, where she married Dezider Eichel, in London on 2 March 1940. They settled in Britain, becoming British citizens in 1948. Both Blanche’s parents were murdered in the Holocaust: the Nazis deported them to unknown camps in September 1942; Blanche was never able to discover their exact fate. Dezider Eichel was the son of Salamon and Irma (née Spitz). He was born on 8 June 1909 in Ružomberok. He...

  17. Board of Deputies: Defence committee papers

    FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS ARCHIVE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FIELD AND PRINTOUT, FILL OUT AND SEND TO ADDRESS GIVEN.The Defence Archive contains reports from the Jewish community's observers who attended many local and national meetings held by these groups, assessments of the groups' aims and capabilities, correspondence with the police and government, as well as the minutes of the Board's committees. Part of the Defence Archive has remained closed but in 2011 it was decided to put it on long term loan with the Wiener Library so that researchers of the perio...

  18. Bocian family: Copy cancellation of naturalisation certificate, Berlin

    Copy cancellation of the naturalisation of Lewek Bocian which extended to his wife and family, in accordance with a law re naturalisation, dated 14 July 1933, issued by the Polizeipräsident BerlinGerman 

  19. Book of mourning

    This book of mourning pertains to the death of Markus Gruenebaum, the grandfather of the depositor, who died on 11 December 1912 age 89.

  20. Book of Mourning dedicated to Benny Michaelson

    Book of Mourning dedicated to Benny Michaelson who died 29 May 1919