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Scope and Contents Audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with mostly Jewish refugees and internees in Britain of the Nazi and World War II era. Interviews are undated but were conducted prior to 1980 and relate to the period 1933-1947.The collection consists of 168 cassettes tapes of interviews with 77 individuals (both men and women), and transcripts of 41 of those interviews. Those interviewed are mainly Jewish refugees (including individuals of mixed race or Jewish extraction), though a...

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Notes, transcripts and photocopies of newspaper reports relating to Jewish immigration from a range of London East End newspapers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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A developing collection of books on the history of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

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The personal library of Lazar Zaidman, reflecting his interests in anti-Fascism, Jewish matters, politics and economics before, during and after World War II.

For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Documents Section below.

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The collection consists of printed ephemera and manuscript documents relating to the Anti-Fascist movement in London and to the Communist Party of Great Britain during the period 1930s to 1950s. There is also material on Jewish affairs during this period, including the origins of the state of Israel. A collection of pamphlets is included.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.