Eating at soup kitchen; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"Speisungen, fuer viele 1000 Mark"

Documents regarding number of recipients and amount of cash distributed; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"25851 Personen betreute die Juedische Winterhilfe mit Regelleistungen. 2300 Barbeihilfen im Werte von 54000 Mark wurden an Betreute gezahlt"

Distributing clothing and shoes to young boys; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"Kleidungen im Werte von 300000 Mark"

Documents regarding subsidies; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"ueber 100000 Mark Subventionen"

Radio repair workshop; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"300 Radioanlagen. 5000 Buecher"

Photo collage of audiences at cultural performances; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"50 Veranstaltungen der 'Seelischen Winterhilfe' wurden von 24000 Betreuten besucht"

Photo collage of children with toys and menorah in background; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"3615 Kinder wurden zu Chanukka mit Bekleidung im Gesamtwertvon: 40000 Mark bedacht und erhielten fuer 2000 Mark Spielzeung und Suessigkeiten"

Passover table with candlesticks, wine goblet and matzoh; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde Jewish Institutions

"50000 Mazzoth wurden zu Pessach ausgegeben. ca. 1000 Personen wurde die Teilnahmean den Sederabenden ermoeglicht."

Staff member writing at desk; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"Leitung und Mitarbeiter der Juedischen Winterhilfe gratulieren herzlich zum 70. Beburtstage"

Ebern; Jewish Community Collection

Material on Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia (Burgpreppach, Ebern, Ermershausen, Kleinsteinach, Limbach, Memmelsdorf, Schweinshaupten, Untermerzbach).

Jewish Planted Forest

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Jewish Eucalyptus Forest

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Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray

The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.

The story of my family : The German-Jewish family of Hermann Nelki /

History of the Nelki and Russo families in Berlin; concentrates mainly on first half of the 20th century; most members of the family were physicians; persecution in Nazi period; emigration to England; attached is the story of Eva Edith Ehrlich who survived the war years in Berlin in hiding.

Embattled Selves. Jewish Identity in the Face of Nazi Persecution undated (1989 circa)

Manuscript: "Embattled Selves. Jewish Identity in the Face of Nazi Persecution". Table of contents and partial draft of a book on the impact of experiences in the Nazi era on the Jewish identity of four persons.