Celle Photograph Album

• ZA UCT BC1556-T
• Series
• 1945-1949

Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection

The photograph album contains fifty-two photographs taken by an unknown Royal Air Force Air Gunner who was stationed in Celle at the end of the Second World War.Celle contained numerous military bases, the military District Command and the Militar...

Correspondence

• ZA UCT BC1556-U-U1
• Subseries
• 1944

Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection

Brand, Erich (1903-1944)

Dachau Memorial Album

• ZA UCT BC1556-AA
• Series
• 1945-1946

Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection

This photo album serves to memorialize the experience of the victims and survivors of the Dachau concentration camp, which was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in 1933 - initially it served to detain political prisoners, but later ...

EAJ van der Horst Collection

• ZA UCT BC496
• Fonds
• undated

Travel documents and papers issued to Mr E A J van der Horst in Holland during World War II. Also clothing and food coupons.Newspaper clippings of the German occupation of Holland during World War II.Example of binding work as a student at Amsterd...

Van der Horst, E. A. J.

Eric Axelson Papers

• ZA UCT BC1263
• Fonds
• 1900-1998

Papers of Professor Eric Axelson. Includes personal papers and correspondence, Union War Histories/World War II, research and writings on Portuguese exploration in Africa

Axelson, Eric

Erich Brand Collection

• ZA UCT BC1556-U
• Series
• 1940-1944

Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection

This Erich Brand Collection contains a conscription notice and five letters written on 8 November 1944 by Erich Brand, who was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. One of the letters Mr. Brand wrote is addressed to a friend, and the rest to various governm...

George Simpson Collection

• ZA UCT BC1556-AD
• Series
• 1945

Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection

The collection comprises of one laminated newspaper clipping and seventeen black and white photographs taken at Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp after liberation by the British on 15 April 1945. When the British army entered the camp they found 60...

Gilbert Lefley Collection

• ZA UCT BC1556-W
• Series
• 1945

Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection

The album contains twenty-nine black and white photographs documenting the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The verso page of the album cover contains the name ‘Gilbert Lefley 32nd C.C.S B.A.R’ (Casualty Clearing Station attached to the British Army ...

Henry Francis Bell Walker Letters

• ZA UCT BC1442
• Fonds
• 1914-1945

The collection comprises primarily letters written by Walker to his daughter Margaret Joan (Pat) Walker, who was on active service in the South African Women’s Auxiliary Army Service in the Middle East during the Second World War. There are also a...

Walker, Henry Francis Bell