Ilse Majer-Williams: family papers

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This collection contains the family papers of Ilse Majer-Williams, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who escaped the Holocaust by being sent on a Kindertransport to wealthy sponsors in the UK in 1939. Personal papers including Ilse Majer-Williams' personal account and her biography; correspondence with family and friends; list of Ilse's belongings taken to the UK; papers documenting her parents' efforts to emigrate such as tax returns, insurance papers, tax and police clearance certificates, correspondence with the American Embassy in Vienna; Ilse's passports and UK naturalisation certificate; and papers relating to her parents' estate and her claim for war compensation. Also included are photographs, recipes, press cuttings, video and audio recordings of a reunion in Jerusalem in 1994. In addition, there is a copy of a report by the University of Vienna entitled 'Jewish clients in the Vienna Postsparkassenamt - Nazi loot 1938-1945' (1998). This is now in the books catalogue. English, German