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

  1. Irma Petrasek: copy eyewitness account

    This collection contains the eyewitness account of Holocaust survivor Irma Petrasek describing her long journey through the labour and concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Irma Petrasek was deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, labour and concentration camps in Estonia, Strutthof labour camp in Poland, a labour camp in Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She describes the conditions during transport and in the camps, the fate of some of her fellow prisoners and the hardship she had to endure. Includes summary of her account in English.

  2. Trude and Anneliese Silberstein: correspondence

    This collection consists of original and copy correspondence addressed to Trude Silberstein and her daughter Anneliese from Trude's mother (1727/1), other family members, Anneliese's school friends and boyfriends (1727/2-10). They both emigrated to Palestine via Amsterdam to flee the persecutions of the Jews in Nazi Germany in 1939. The accrual 2014/49 has been catalogued at 1727/11

  3. Fokschaner family: personal papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this materialThis collection consists of the personal papers of the Fokschaner family, Rumanian Jews from Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, now Ukraine).Family papers including the papers and authenticated copies of papers of Max and Sarina Fokschaner (1728/1-2), Otto and Erika Fokschaner (1728/3-5), Erich Lupul and Else Fokschaner (1728/7), Wolfgang Fokschaner (1728/6), Karoline Fokschaner, Johanna Fokschaner (1728/8) and Klara Löwner (1728/5). Documents include certificate of Palestinian naturalisation; affidavit in lieu of passport; nationalit...

  4. Herta Berg: family recipe notebooks

    This collection consists of two note books containing family recipes by Herta Berg, an Austrian Jew who sought refuge in the UK with her family in 1938. One of the books contains recipes from her sister Teta.

  5. Leonard Lawrence: copy personal papers and diary

    This collection contains copies of personal papers and a diary of the Jewish teenager Leonard Lawrence (formerly Leopold Weil) who came to England on a Kindertransport in 1939. Includes summary of diary contents in English.Personal papers including his diary, 1939-1943 documenting his efforts to educate himself and make a living, his social life particularly his involvement with the 'Young Austrian' group and his perception of political events; as well as copy personal papers including his last school certificate from 1938, military service papers, certificate of naturalisation, marriage ce...

  6. Gerd Ledermann: letter regarding life in Nepal

    This collection contains a letter of a former Kindertransportee Gerd Ledermann reflecting on his new life in Nepal between 1986 and 1989.

  7. Ina Felczer: photographs of refugee hostel in Harrogate

    This collection contains two digital photographs of refugees at a girls' hostel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Arriving in the UK Ina Felczer initially stayed in Leeds before being sent to the hostel in Harrogate.

  8. Sophie Friedländer: personal papers and interviews

    This collection contains the personal papers of Sophie Friedländer, who was a teacher at the Jewish boarding school in Caputh, near Potsdam and later emigrated to the UK as a German Jewish refugee.Personal papers including correspondence, photographs, papers and press cuttings relating to the former Jewish school in Caputh; correspondence with German broadcasting companies regarding the production of a TV documentary on Kindertransporte and the former school in Caputh 'Als ob man nur ein bischen wegfährt' (1990); draft autobiography of Hilde Jarecki and correspondence regarding a joint auto...

  9. Schlesinger-Bischeim collection

    The collections consists of two family history books, one by Simon Bischheim and one written for Bernard and Winifred Schlesinger, as well as a set of photographs, most of which seem to depict members of the Bischheim family.

  10. Harry Edward Anderson Collection

    This collection contains some personal papers and photographs of Harry Edward Anderson (formerly Hans Israel Abraham) who emigrated to England as a Jewish refugee upon release from Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

  11. Erica Prean: copy personal correspondence and family research

    This collection contains correspondence regarding the family history of Erica Prean. Research into the history of the family was carried out as part of a project at the Walburgisgymnasium in Menden to commemorate the lives of the Jewish citizens who were victims of the Shoah. Family papers Including is a photocopy of a family photograph.Also included are transcripts and translations into English of letters sent to Ilse Bernstein and her daughter Erica in England from Ilse's parents Carl and Emmy Bernstein and aunt Adda (1939-1940) English and German Also text of talk given at HMD 27.1.2018,...

  12. Erich Hirschowitz: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Erich Hirschowitz, a German Jew who emigrated to Paris as a refugee in 1933.Included are his school and university qualifications; French identity card; speech held by Erich and Ernst at Adele and Bernhard Hirschowitz's wedding in 1932 and notes on his experiences in exile in 1933. Also includes family photographs, press cutting and six prints of '"Die alte Stadt" Mappe II: Bilder aus dem alten Berlin'

  13. Friedrich Ullstein: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence between Augustus ('Gus') and Bartholomew ('Bart') Ullstein and their parents whilst the boys were at Bradfield College discussing family matters and expressing political opinions. Correspondence between Augustus ('Gus') and Bartholomew ('Bart') Ullstein and their parents whilst the boys were at Bradfield College discussing family matters and expressing political opinions. Also included are press cuttings regarding the centenary of the death of Leopold Ullstein in 1999 and a photograph of Frederick Ullstein.

  14. Eric Nash: copy personal correspondence and papers

    This collection contains an eyewitness account and reminiscences by Eric Nash, a Jewish Czech physician who survived Terezin and Auschwitz concentration camps and the death march to Dachau, where he was liberated by the American army. Most members of his closest family did not survive the Holocaust.Personal account and reminiscences. Also included is a letter (with a translation into English) written to relatives in New York shortly after his liberation describing in graphic detail the fate of his loved ones and his experiences in the concentration camps; and notes regarding a trip through ...

  15. Paul and Johanna Löwy: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Austrian Jewish refugees Paul Löwy (1740/2- and his mother Johanna Löwy (1740/1-)who emigrated to the UK in 1939.Personal papers including: birth, marriage and death certificates, certificates of qualifications, business licence, certificates of residence ('Heimatschein'), passports and certificates of naturalisation. Also included are a letter sent to his aunt from Buchenwald concentration camp and letters sent to his mother just after his release from Buchenwald concentration camp and from internment on the Isle of Man

  16. Helen Koch Elder: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Helen Koch Elder, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution.Included are photocopy of birth certificate, school certificates, curriculum vitae, certificate of Christian baptism in the United States, affidavit regarding the change of her name, photographs and press cuttings.

  17. Marianne Fischer: copy correspondence

    This collection contains copy correspondence from Rosa Jonas in Berlin to her granddaughter Marianne Frank who had recently emigrated from Nazi Germany with her husband Hans Fischer.Rosa Jonas writes about news from family and friends in Berlin, some of whom were also emigrating. Includes summaries of letters in English.

  18. Anneliese Silberstein: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Anneliesa Silberstein, a Jewish girl from Berlin who emigrated to Palestine in 1939.Personal papers Including certificate of inheritance and her father's last will, birth and marriage certificates of her parents, family register, photocopy of Anneliesa's Palestinian certificate of naturalisation (1743/1-) and some family correspondence (1743/2). Also included are two of Anneliesa's diaries (1743/3) in which she refers to the political situation and how it affected her life as a Jewish girl in Berlin. She discusses her fate and the meaning of l...

  19. Robert Koenig: correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence from Robert Koenig to Heinz Katz and friends in Tel Aviv describing the first year of his return home to Prague after his military service in the Second World War, coming to terms with the traumatic experiences during the war.Correspondence of Robert Koening in which he writes about his observations of the destroyed towns in the Allied occupied zones of Western Europe, his search for relatives, his work at the military hospital in Prague and later at the civic gynaecological hospital in Jablonec nad Nisou (Gablonz), Czech Republic, and his opinions ab...

  20. Hermann and Malvine Rares: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Austro-Hungarian Jewish couple, Hermann and Malvine Rares.