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

  1. C.C. Aronsfeld: copy personal correspondence

    This collection consists of correspondence relating to a letter published in the Times newspaper in 1977 by C.C. Aronsfeld, formerly deputy director of the Wiener Library, which questioned the extended closure period on records held at the Public Records Office relating to the author of an Anti-Semitic book on Anglo-Jewry, (Das Judentum in England , by Peter Aldag), published in Germany in 1940. Some of the correspondence betrays a latent anti-Semitism.

  2. C.P. Carter: Letter re the bombing of Hamburg

    Letter speculating on the reasons for the accuracy/ inaccuracy of the British bombing of Hamburg 

  3. Cahn family papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy Red Cross telegrams sent by Sophie Cahn (the depositor) from England to her father in Mönchen- Gladbach, 1940s. Also included is a copy claim form by Fritz Cahn in Canda for compensation from the city of Mönchen- Gladbach.Sophie's father, Emanuel, died in Theresienstadt in 1942. The children ended up in Canada, USA, UK, and Israel.

  5. Captain Perry: copy personal papers

    This miscellaneous collection of copy papers of Captain P. J. C. Perry of the British Control Commission, sector Berlin, documents in part his role and activities as a member of the British military authorities in Berlin in the immediate post-war period. He is variously described as the nutrition officer of the nutrition and agriculture department of the military authority; Commander for the admission of motor vehicles; and ‘Herrn Keppenperie' (964/4).

  6. Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

  7. Carl Schmitt: RFSS SD Hauptamt File

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This document is a dossier produced by the Sicherheitsdienst der Reichsführung SS, 1936-1937, the result of an extensive investigation into Carl Schmitt, constitutional theorist of the Weimar Republic and ‘Crown Jurist' of the Nazi era. It contains correspondence and reports from former colleagues of Schmitt and others, denouncing his alleged anti-nazi, pro-Jewish background. Also included is correspondence between the editor of Das Schwarze Korps, and officials within the RFSS SD, in which an...

  8. Cecil Roth file: Documents re Italian Jewry

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material documenting the experiences of Italian Jewry is in 2 parts: Cecil Roth's essays and memoranda on the history and experience of Italian Jewry in general (507/I); and his original correspondence concerning the fate of individual Italian Jews during the Nazi era (507/II).

  9. 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.

  10. Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: Archives

    This collection is held at the Wiener Library on microfilm.

  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. Central Council for Jewish Refugees: Donor forms

    Donation form of the Central Council for Jewish Refugees/London, special emergency appeal by N. M. Rothschild English 

  13. Central Verein Berlin: reports of interviews with individuals re antisemitism

    The papers are reports of interviews, which Wiener had with various individuals concerned with trying to influence antisemitic agitation by Hitler. The individuals are Dr Planck, Staatssekretär der Reichskanzlei; von Steinau-Steinrück, the personal representative of the interior minister; and Alfred Leonhard Tietz

  15. Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens: regional group meeting invitations

    Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens: regional group meeting invitations 

  16. Centralverein: Poster receipt for antisemitism donation, nd

    Poster in the form of a receipt for 500 RM as ‘a building block in the dam against anti-Semitism'. 

  17. Centre de Documentantation Juive Contemporaine: selected set of copy documents depicting the Holocaust

    Set of copy docs entitled '10 documents de la deportation', Paris 1991

  19. Certificate that Franz Wrobel was interned in Gurs Camp

    Certificate issued by the Sous Prefecture of Oloron that Franz Wrobel was interned in Gurs Camp from October 25 1940 to 4 Aug 1941

  20. Chaja Cohn: Memoirs of German Jewish Exile, nd

    This collection of stories and reminiscences was collated by Chaja Cohn, a former refugee residing in Israel, who had spent several years in China.