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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Jewish History |
Local
- Mosaic Liberal Synagogue, Harrow: council and committee minutes, administration, correspondence, membership, building and development, magazines, photographs, video cassettes, scrapbooks, souvenir brochures and programmes 1947-2012 (B22/110)
- Mosaic Reform Synagogue: Council, Executive and committee minutes, building plans and correspondence, administration, work of Rabbi Franses with RSGB, magazines, calendars, souvenir brochures and programmes, photographs, scrapbooks, video cassettes, display boards 1959-2020 (B22/111)
- United Synagogue, Sheffield: records incl minutes, accounts, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, plans, miscellaneous papers rel to the Synagogue, Jewish societies and individuals/families associated with it 1850s-2000s (JCC)
University
- Gerda Kamilla Mayer (1927-2021), poet and writer: material rel to Mayer's literary work and early life incl copies of Mayer's published works and substantial files of literary correspondence 1939-2008 (MS 2260)
- Dora Cymer (orginally Cymerspitz) (b1879), from Poland: mainly corresp from her daughter, Renee, and her son-in-law, Paul Herzog, dating from 1939-1941, which offers a comprehensive account of life during the war, and documents the struggles of Jewish life during the period. Paul and Renee were deported to Auschwitz in 1942 and murdered there. Also incl a collection of misc papers incl identity documents, financial accounts and corresp c1904-2010 (SxMs212)
- Susi Bechhofer (fl1930-1990), Kindertransport evacuee: mostly research notes and some original documentation rel to her family history comprising photocopies, cuttings and correspondence with family members; papers rel to Bechhofer's work with the Holocaust Memorial Trust and letters (3) from W.G. Sebald rel to his novel 'Austerlitz' c1990-2000 (SxMs211)
- West Central Liberal Synagogue: committee and administrative papers, membership records, annual reports, accounts, newsletters and publications, photographs 1928-2020 (MS460)
- Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling (1869–1927), prominent British Jew, financier, and political activist: volumes (11) of a travelogue of a tour to India and the Far East 1896 (MS461)
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