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Total number of records: 9

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Liddle Collection3
English Literature2
Brotherton Collection1
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1
Leeds Poetry1

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holocaust9
world war ii6
antisemitism5
nazism4
displaced persons3
jewish community3
oral history2
ashkenazi jews1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
concentration camps1

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Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)1
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017)1
Esther Sinovitch1
Isserlin, Max (1879-1941)1
Mayer, Gerda1
Simpson, Dr Francis Vivian (1927-2014)1
Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)1

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Archive Collection

Max Isserlin Collection

Isserlin, Max (1879-1941)

1902-1999

Papers of the psychiatrist Max Isserlin, includes: journals and papers on psychological and medical subjects; correspondence files; working papers; case histories and medical reports; photographs and ...

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Esther Simpson correspondence and papers

Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)

1918-1997

This collection reflects Esther Simpson's work on behalf of refugee scholars over the course of fifty years. It also documents the many friendships and contacts she developed. The main collection (i...

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Gerda Mayer Archive

Mayer, Gerda

c.1939 - 2008

The collection relates to the life and works of poet Gerda Mayer. It contains; Literary correspondence, personal correspondence, and published/ unpublished writings, with there being some amount of cr...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

26 April 1962 - August 1997

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at the 'Jewish Chronicle.' Includes 1 typescript letter from Lionel Simmonds (features editor), 1 typescript letter and 1 ms letter from Tosco Fyvel (literary...

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Kutner, David

Mid-Late 20th Century

This section contains a transcript of an interview with David Kutner regarding his experience as a Polish Jew detained in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp at 11 years old. The account details the...

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Rossleigh, Christine (née Goldschlag-gorezynski)

Mid-Late 20th Century

This section contains a letter from Christine Rossleigh recounting her experience as a Polish Jew living in Nazi occupied Poland. She recalls the growth of antisemitism in Poland before and after the ...

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Dortheimer, Victor

Mid-Late 20th Century

This section contains a typed transcript of an interview (Tape No. 1377) with Victor Dorthheimer regarding his experience of living in Nazi occupied Poland. Dortheimer was chief enameller at Oskar Sc...

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Papers of Janina and Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017); Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)

1945-2015

Most of the material relates to the professional careers of Zygmunt Bauman and his first wife, Janina Bauman (writer). It includes correspondence (with academics of sociology, philosophy and other dis...

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Czech Torah Scroll, MST#68, Brno

c.1850

Comprises a Czech Torah scroll in Hebrew containing the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Known as the Brno scroll, it originally came from Czechoslovakia. It is a scroll from an ...

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