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

  2. Antisemitism in the Third Reich: Miscellaneous documents

    These 3 unrelated documents are evidence of anti-Semitic measures taken by the Nazis

  3. Antisemitism in the USA: Printed tracts and related correspondents

    Collection of printed antisemitic material and associated correspondence. The central theme of the collection are the views of Judge N. W. Rogers, a virulent anti-semite, who believed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the domination of the financial world by international Jewry. He sent one of his pamphlets and 2 others of a similar nature to Hugo Valentin in Sweden, with a letter in which he reasserts his antisemitic arguments. Evidently they had already corresponded although it is not clear why. In addition there is correspondence between the Jewish Central Information Office and...

  4. Antonia Jacoby collection

    This collection contains a photocopy and transcripts of correspondence from Antonia Jacoby sent to her family in 1933 and in 1940, a few days after she escaped from Germany and emigrated to Japan. The complex financial problems she describes are a reflection of the new laws imposed on Jews in Germany at the time. The letter from Japan was written to Marie Behrendt, wife of Antonia's cousin Fritz Behrendt, who used to live in Breslau before emigrating to Argentina.

  5. Appeal for Jewish Displaced Persons

    These 2 identical cards are signed 'Rothschild' and contain an appeal for assistance on one side, and a joke reprinted from the Evening Standard on the other.

  6. Appeal for peace by the Second International Congress against Racism

    Appeal for peace by the Second International Congress against Racism to the Arab people and Jews of Palestine to stop hating each other and to lay down their arms.French 

  7. Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich by Dr Richard Spitzer

    This appraisal of Paul Ehrlich was written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birthday by Dr Richard Spitzer.

  8. Aranka Fuchsova papers

    This collection contains documents relating to Aranka Fuchsova and her husband Jan (Hanusch) Fuchs.

  9. Arbeitsgemeischaft fuer Wehrgeistige Forschung e.V

    Arbeitsgemeischaft fuer Wehrgeistige Forschung e.V: Information leaflet 

  10. Archiv für die Gesamte Psychologie: extract

    Typescript extract from a psychology journal which asserts a difference between aryans and non-aryans with respect to the appreciation of music.

  12. Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR): G44 Hostages and Political Detainees (microfilm)

    Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR) collection, 1939-1952, comprises files, reports and correspondence on the following subject areas: general background on hostages and political detainees; hostages and political detainees in Germany; hostages and political detainess by country and nationality (except Germany); assistance to hostages and political detainees; repatriations of deported; case files (all nationalities); civil war in Greece.

  13. Archives re Rudolf Hess: list

    List of papers relating to Rudolf Hess and Douglas Hamilton at the National Archives, Scotland

  14. Arno Jacobius: personal correspondence

    This collection contains the personal correspondence of Arno Jacobius, a Jewish boy from Berlin who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, aged 14. His stepbrother Roman Gärtner and his uncle Leo Levy emigrated separately to England. Arno's mother, Johanna Jacobius, however perished at Auschwitz concentration camp.Personal correspondence of Arno Jacobius including letters from his mother, his stepbrother Roman Gärtner, his uncle Leo Levy from Kitchener camp in Kent, and other relatives and friends. The correspondence concerns Arno's new life in Scotland, the anticipated e...

  15. Arnold Rosé: copt documents re wartime musical activities

    The collection was deposited at the Wiener Library on the instruction of Richard Newman, co-author of Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz, Amadeus, USA, 2000. Alma Rosé was Arnold's daughter and became the conductor of the Auschwitz orchestra, where she died in 1944. Whilst the book obviously focuses on the experiences of Alma there is substantial biographical account of many members of the family including her father and his relation to the Mahler family.

  16. Arnold Schönberg: copy papers

    This collection of copy correspondence concerns the period when he left Europe for the United States.

  18. Arnost Polak: family correspondence and papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection comprises original postcards and letters from Gerta and Rudolf Pollak, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp in former Czechoslovakia and Siedliszcze, a forced labour camp in the Lublin area, Poland. Also included are some recent photographs of Terezin and memorial stones. The letters are particularly significant for historians of the period because they provide a detailed insight into ghetto life and shed light on the fate of one transport from Terezin to Lublin District in Poland. The f...

  19. Aron Adolf Neiss collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Aron Adolf Neiss and his family, former Jewish refugees from Vienna. The Neiss family originally came from Poland but had moved to Vienna by the 1920s. Aron and his son emigrated to England in July 1939.Personal papers including birth and marriage certificates, certificates of family origin ('Heimatschein'), Herbert Neiss' tax clearance certificate, passports, Aron Neiss' certificate of naturalisation and power of attorney relating to his restitution claim. Also included are personal correspondence, papers relating to the sale of the family ho...

  20. Article on Kafka

    In addition there is a note from a producer of the BBC's 'Third Programme', regarding a possible talk by Robert Weltsch on Franz Kafka, who also knew him quite well.