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

  2. Telegram re mobility restrictions for Jews

    Copy telegram from Bern to Auswärtige Amt discussing the possibility of special entry in passports held by Jews from Germany and Italy designed to prevent their travel to SwitzerlandGerman 

  5. Terezin Studio Project: Programme re The Emperor of Atlantis

    This programme was produced for a series of performances of The Emperor of Atlantis by the Terezin Studio Project in Halifax, NS, Canada, 1998. The programme includes a brief history of Terezin, where the opera was composed, a history of the opera, short biographical accounts of Viktor Ullman, the composer, and Petr Kien, the librettist, and an English translation of the text.

  7. Terezin: Note re materials and shortage of doctors

    Copy note from the health section of the Jewish Management Committee of Terezin re materials and shortage of doctors 

  8. Terfus family: personal papers

    This collection comprises the papers of Michael and Charlotte Terfus, Jewish refugees from Berlin who fled Nazi persecution in March 1939. Charlotte's parents and Michael's sister were unable to emigrate and were later deported to concentration camps where they perished.Personal papers including Michael Terfus' qualifications and work references, medical certificate, copies of marriage certificate, military service papers such as official record of Army service, prayer book for Jewish sailors and soldiers, British Legion membership card, Ex-Service (N.B.) Association membership card as...

  9. Testimonies of Jewish former residents of Russia and Eastern Europe

    Testimonies of Jewish former residents of Russia and Eastern Europe describing experiences of persecution.. All of the interviewees went to Palestine on Youth AliyahThe identities of the interviewees are not known. Each testimony is entitled ‘case history' and followed by a number. The numbers in this collection are: 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16. It is not known where the missing numbers are.

  10. Thea Wessley: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence received by Thea Wessley in England from her family and friends in Austria. Thea Wessley, a Jewish girl from Vienna, was sent to England in 1939 in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her parents, Siegfried and Fanny Deuches, were separated and perished in concentration camps in the Holocaust. Includes English summary.Correspondence sent by her parents as well as her grandfather Hermann Zwicker, and other relations and friends. The correspondence documents the life of an Austrian refugee girl in England, the worries of her parents about her health, educ...

  11. Theresienstadt activity report

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.The typescript report details every aspect of the activities of the camp under the following sub-headings: Abteilung fuer innere Verwaltung, Arbeitszentrale, Wirtschaftsabteilung, Spedition, Landwirtschaft, Produktion, Finanzabteilung, Technische Abteilung, Abteilung fuer Gesundheitswesen.

  12. Theresienstadt bank: savings book of Max Hirschfeld

    This savings book issued by the bank of the Jewish self-administration of Theresienstadt documents the savings accrued by a former inmate from June 1943 to August 1944, payment for labour whilst in the camp. A letter, dated 1 Oct 1945, from the same to the British Military Governor, Bielefeld, requesting refunds for savings accrued by all surviving Theresienstadt inmates (1423/2) is annotated 'cannot be allowed'.

  14. Theresienstadt reports

    These various reports on life and conditions in Theresienstadt offer a first hand account at the time of liberation. Nevertheless the tenor, language and information contained in the reports suggest that they are authentic.

  15. Third Reich: Personal accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection comprises two deposits whose relationship to each other is not known. The first consists of correspondence and reports concerning participants in two famous acts of protest during the Third Reich: the Rosenstrasse Protest in which the (mostly) Aryan partners of a specially segregated group of Jewish prisoners protested at their detention by the Nazis in a former welfare office for the Jewish community in Berlin, 1943; Das Sovjet-Paradies Aktion in which 500 Jews and Germans were arres...

  16. Thomas Cook and Son Ltd: Storage record book

    This storage record book of Thomas Cook's Lisbon depot, is thought to be significant because it apparently contains the names of many Jews who left possessions during the years 1942-1943, much of which remained unclaimed, and was presumably disposed of by Thomas Cook staff in due course. The following notes were supplied by the depositor, who was (in 1977-1978) the Thomas Cook General Manager for Europe and who retrieved the volume from the Lisbon office of Thomas Cook

  17. Tobias Brandt family papers

    The collection contains the personal papers of Tobias Brandt; Tobias and Emmy Brandt correspondence; correspondence regarding Die Weltbühne; various press cuttings; material regarding Nellie Sachs and Ernst Wiechert; and photographs.

  18. Toch and Korn families: personal papers

    This collection consists of the papers of the Toch and Korn families, Jewish refugees from Vienna. Whilst the children Erika and Harry Toch emigrated to England and Palestine, respectively to flee Nazi persecution, their parents Wilhelm and Margarethe Toch were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp from where only their mother returned. Erika got married to Polish refugee, Salman Korn, in 1941 whose papers and correspondence are also included.Included are correspondence and papers from Theresienstadt, Deggendorf DP camp as well as Kitchener and Mooragh internment camps; school repor...

  19. Tony Berger collection

    This collection comprises the personal correspondence received by Tony Berger, a Jewish refugee from Duisburg who was the only one of her siblings to emigrate to England on a domestic visa. Despite her efforts to help her family leave the country, they did not manage to obtain the required documentation in time.Family letters of Tony Berger, mainly from her mother, siblings and grandparents, document her family's efforts and hopes for emigration with the help of Tony Berger's new contacts in England as well as Tony Berger's life in London as a refugee employed as a domestic maid. Also inclu...