Gertrud and Max Joseph, Ida and Paul Simons and Arthur and Hans Bial: papers

These papers include personal accounts as well as interviews with Walter Rau and Hans Sahl. Also included is other material relating to Jewish persecution such as an article by Gaby Glassman regarding Irene Bloomsfield's work on intergenerational communication within families affected by Nazi persecution (2003), and correspondence and papers relating to the Jewish community in Stralsund.

The collection also consists of the personal papers of Arthur Bial and his son Hans Bial who survived the Holocaust at Westerbork transit camp. Included are Arthur Bial's diary of his military service during the First World War, introduction to Hans Bial's diary, correspondence and press cuttings relating to the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands.

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