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

  1. Account of life in a ghetto

    This typescript copy account of life in an unidentified ghetto commences with a note in English that the letter extracts were received in New York from Switzerland. It is also headed ‘strictly confidential, for your personal information only' and annotated with the date May 1942.

  2. Account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience

    Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in BerlinGerman 30 pages 

  3. Account of Paul Loebl's war-time experiences

    This report is described as a translation of a report to the Director of the VAD. The original is thought to have been in German. It is not known what the VAD is. Paul Loebl spent time in Belgium and in the concentration camps of St. Cyprien and Gurs.

  4. Account of the Kohn family's fate during the Holocaust

    This collection consists of a family history report on the fate of Thomas Brady's grandparents, Bernhard and Hedwig Kohn and their daughter Herta from Vienna who perished in the Holocaust.Account of the Kohn family's fate including illustrations of contemporary documents and details of other members of the family who were murdered. 

  5. Account re Kristallnacht

    An account of Kristallnacht by Vincent C. Frank in Berlin who holds the view that it was meticulously plannedGerman 5 pages 

  6. Account re Ruth Plaut

    Account re Ruth Plaut

  7. Address by Federal President, Johannes Rau

    This collection contains copies of an address in German and English to the Israeli Parliament by the German Federal President, Johannes Rau, 0n 16 February 2000

  9. Adler family papers

    Collection of papers, correspondence and ephemera of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936.

  10. Adler family: official personal documents

    Collection of official personal documents, correspondence and press cuttings of members of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936. Includes certificates of birth and death, speeches, work references, certificates of naturalisation, passports, marriage certificates, declaration of acquisition of British nationality and school reports of Bruno and Meta Adler (1664/1), Erich and Ursula Adler (1664/2), Moritz Israel and Elise Mecklenburg (1664/3), and Feist and Betty Landau (1664/4).

  11. Adolf Eichmann Trial: Transcripts and other papers

    This document collection contains two separate archival fonds. The Eichmann trial papers include verbatim transcripts of the trial proceedings and of the Eichmann appeal proceedings. They are copies of simultaneous translations and as such may not be completely accurate. Full transcripts of the trial and appeal proceedings are at 621/1-2. Incomplete copies of the same are at 621/4-5. The copies, translations and transcriptions of mainly Nuremberg documents which are evidence of Eichmann's involvement in the extermination of European Jewry at 621/3 were deposited by the Institute of Jewish A...

  12. Adolf Frankl: papers re art exhibition

    This collection of papers relating to an art exhibition of Adolf Frankl's works consists of correspondence, opening addresses, newspaper reviews and catalogues.

  13. Adolf Heilberg: Pro Memoria

    This collection comprises the personal account of the experiences of the distinguished German Jewish lawyer, Adolf Heilberg, from the time he was first persecuted by the Nazis in March 1933.

  14. Adolf Neumann and Margot Cahn: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Margot Cahn (1928-1949) (1674/1-23) and Dr Adolf Neumann (1933-1938) (1674/24-29), who met in 1933 documenting their daily lives, meetings and social events in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until the November pogroms in 1938. Shortly after this event they both emigrated to different countries, Margot to England and Adolf to Scandinavia. Margot Cahn's life in London can be traced through her diaries until 1949. The diaries include poetry and contain memorabilia such as photographs, press cuttings, programmes as well as pressed flowers and leaves.

  16. Adolf Wald: Bar Mitzwah album

    The album contains mostly letters, cards and telegrams congratulating the subject on reaching his Bar Mitzwah

  17. Agnes Balint personal accounts of WW2 in Hungary

    This collection contains the personal papers of Agnes Balint describing her experiences as a Jewish woman at the time of the Nazi occupation in Budapest during the Second World War.The papers submitted to Yad Vashem in support of her nomination of her rescuers being named "Righteous amongst the Nations" (1725/2), she provides details of her rescue, her life in hiding, the siege of Budapest, the support she obtained from friends that enabled her to survive the war and her escape to the country.Also included is an eyewitness testimony of the German occupation and liberation of Budapest (autho...

  18. Agnes Kaposi Collection

    This collection contains the personal papers and photographs of the Kaposi Klein family. In particular material relating to Erno Kaposi-Klein, the donor's father-in-law, his wife and son; also Magda and Imre Kristof, the donor's parents