Gertrude Tausinger: family papers

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This collection contains the family papers of Gertrud Tausinger, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated with her husband to the UK via Prague in 1939. The couple's business and that of her parents were seized shortly after Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich and they were forced to emigrate. Personal papers including birth, baptism, marriage and death certificates; passports,"Heimatschei", ID and membership cards; tax clearance certificate;"Abstammungsnachwei" certificate; alien registration certificates; Leslie Geiger's change of name deed; Peter Geiger's school reports; and naturalisation certificates. Also includes company share certificates; property deeds; papers relating to property insurance; personal correspondence; photographs and a video relating to Albert Tausinger's experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust (1996). English, German, Hungarian, Aramaic