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

  1. United Nations War Crimes Commission: records

    Lists of alleged war criminals, files of charges brought against them, minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, trial transcripts, and related documentation about the activities of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), its committees, and individuals identified as alleged war criminals, including evidence compiled against them and records related to their prosecution by national tribunals. One significant group of these records consist of files about individuals who were identified by the UNWCC as war criminals, including the charge files that were compiled against them, ba...

  2. United Restitution Office: Copy correspondence

    This collection consists of copy correspondence between former employees of the United Restitution Office at their branches in Paris and London.

  3. Unity Mitford Collection

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  5. USHMM Division of Education

    This collection of short biographies of Holocaust victims and survivors was created by staff at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from interviews of survivors who described not only their own experiences but those of friends and family. The text was used to create identification cards for use in classrooms. The majority of the 37 biographies in this collection pertain to children.

  6. Valerie and Andrea Wolffenstein: correspondence and papers

    This collection consists mainly of correspondence from friends and acquaintances of Valerie and Andrea Wolffenstein, 2 sisters of Jewish origins, who converted to Christianity and who managed to survive the war in hiding in Germany. It comprises mostly reminiscences and birthday wishes etc

  7. Various copy documents re Jewish education during the Third Reich

    Copy papers which document discrimination against Jewish educational institutions and professionals during the Nazi era. The subject matter ranges from dismissal on racial grounds of Jewish academics from 1933, through the separation of aryan and non-aryan instruction, c1938, to the closure of Jewish schools, 1941-1942. A substantial part of the material relates to institutions in Köln and Frankfurt a. M..This collection originally consisted of four separate collections (801, 801a, 801b, 801c).

  8. Various copy papers re 'The Dunera' refugee transport ship to Australia

    These various copy papers document the experiences of the German and Austrian internees transported to Australia on the 'Dunera' in 1940 and their subsequent detention in camps in Australia. The collection consists of copy personal and official papers relating to time spent at the camp; copy official papers relating to the passage of the 'Dunera' and the allegations of ill treatment on board and copy newspaper cuttings reporting the same. In addition there is contemporary copy correpondence of Herbert Goldsmith relating to the 'Dunera' affair.

  9. Various eyewitness accounts

    This miscellaneous collection of eyewitness accounts, detailing anti-Semitic persecution by the nazis probably form part of the several hundred testimonies gathered in the mid- 1950s by the Wiener Library, most of which now belong in the Wiener Library 'P Series'. In fact the first item (1267/1) is an account signed 'Li. Z.' of this project, dated 14 May 1956. It is possible that the reason why the accounts in this collection were never included in the 'P Series' is that so many of them are incomplete and/ or without author.

  10. Various eyewitness statements

    A collection of eyewitness statements pertaining variously to war crimes in and experiences of Auschwitz; experiences  and condititons in Terezin; experience of a Christian anti-Nazi school teacher during the Third Reich

  12. Various eyewitness testimonies

    Various eyewitness testimonies 

  14. Various family documents

    This collection actually consists of 3 unrelated collections, which were brought together for no obvious reason, the 4 other collections which made up the original, having since been dispersed. 574c is a deposit of various papers from N. J. Lamont re the French Foreign Legion.

  15. Various news cuttings

    Volume of news cuttings This collection of newspaper cuttings contains poetry relating to the First World War and a variety of news stories from Die Nation and the Frankfurter Zeitung.

  16. Vera Bier: restitution claim papers

    This collection consists of the restitution claim papers of Vera Bier whose parents and brother perished in the Holocaust.War compensation claims relating to destroyed family property in Aachen, damage to her education, loss of finances, and deprivation of liberty and death of her family.

  17. Vera Coppard-Leibovic collection

    This collection contains photocopies of Vera Coppard-Leibovic's (née Ilse Rosendorff) identity cards, a former Jewish Kindertransportee from Berlin whose parents decided to send her to England in 1939 to avoid her being exposed to Nazi persecution.Copy identity cards including a 'Judenkarte' (German ID card for Jews) and identity card for young people under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children admitted to travel to the UK.

  19. Vera Klara Cohn: papers concerning Kurt Singer

    This collection contains the papers of Vera Cohn, mainly concerning Dr Kurt Singer, conductor and musicologist, with whom she had a relationship before she emigrated to the UK in 1938.Personal papers including press cuttings relating to Singer, programme for a guest performance at the Berliner Ensemble accompanying the exhibition 'Geschlossene Vorstellung - Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933-1941' at the Academy of Art Berlin (1992) and a photograph of Kurt Singer. Also included are two publications by Kurt Singer 'J S Bach Kantatenwelt - A. Allgemeines and grundsätzliches - Einleitung' and 'J S ...