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Fritz Weisskopf (1920-1994) was born in Ratibor, Upper Silesia. He attended the Rhediger Gymnasium in Breslau from 1931-1938, where he became friends with Walter Laqueur. He traveled to Palestine and from 1938-1940 attended agricultural college. He spent the war years as a soldier in the British Army, achieving the rank of Captain. From 1947-1949 he was a major in the Israeli army. He became a department ...

This is a copy of a letter from Max Bollag of Basel, dated 26 August 1938, the bulk of which consists of an account by Dr. Wilhelm Freyhahn's experiences of Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was an inmate until July 1938.

Copy of a notice from the Hamburg Amerika Linie, travel company, Breslau office, re sailings and prices for illegal emigration to Palestine<br />German&nbsp;

This collection consists of 2 election pamphlets addressed to the German Jewish community.

Little is known about the family save for their birth details and the following information gleaned from Franz Mendelsohn's cv dated c. 1934. He was born in Breslau, 7 January 1899, the son of the lawyer, notary and <em>Justizrat</em>, Salo Mendelsohn. Franz studied law in Freiburg, taking his final examination on 15 March 1924. from which date he worked as a lawyer at the regional court at Breslau ...

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.&nbsp;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 ...

<p>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to listen to the audio interview with the donor</p><p>Recipe book and other papers including audio interview of Peter Hulsen who describes being born in Breslau, into a wealthy, secular Jewish household; coming to Great Britain on the last Kindertransport; staying in an orphanage in Brighton for 5 years; an interview with Anna Essinger and subsequent ...

The reports provide an insight into the general conditions which obtained in Germany in the early 1940s.

Herbert Malinow (b. 1920) was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) to Adolph and Erna Malinow, Jewish refugees. Herbert came to Great Britain in 1936. Adolph, Erna and Ernst followed in 1939. Herbert was subsequently interned in June 1940 and sent to Australia on the infamous <em>HMS Dunera. </em>He remained in internment camp in Australia until his return in August 1941. Thereafter he joined the ...

Contains bookplates, pamphlets, wedding invitations, business cards, newspaper and other materials, some of which concern the Jewish community in Breslau.