About
Hidden Treasures is a project of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the only democratically elected, cross-communal, representative body in the Jewish community.
Archives featured on the website are part of a national network of state, local and communal archives that will enable you to discover more about the history of Jews and the Jewish community in Britain. It might even help you uncover some of your own family’s history.
We are always looking for new archives to feature so if you are an institution, organisation or community group with an archive that relates to the history of Jews in Britain, then please get in touch.
If you or your organisation is interested in creating an archival collection to contribute to the story of the Jewish community in Britain for future generations, please contact hidden.treasures@bod.org.uk.
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Here is a list of the current archives in our network:
AJR Refugee Voices
Ben Uri Archive
BFI National Archive
Brady Photographic Archive
British Library’s Hebrew Collection
Cairo Genizah Collection
German-Jewish Archives, Sussex University
Hackney Archives
Hesped.org
Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association
Hull History Centre
Imperial War Museum
Jewish Chronicle Archive
Jewish Communities & Records – United Kingdom
Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
Jewish Heritage in Northern Ireland – Queen’s University Belfast
Jewish History Association of South Wales
Jewish Museum, London
Jews of the RAF
John Rylands Library at Manchester University
Leeds Jewish Archive
Liberal Judaism Archive
London Metropolitan Archives
Manchester Grammar School Archive
Manchester Jewish Museum
Manx National Heritage Library & Archives
Memory Map of the Jewish East End
Merseyside Jewish Community Archive
Plymouth Archives at The Box
Sandys Row Archive
Scottish Jewish Archives
Sephardi Voices UK
Sheffield City Archives & Local Study Library
Sir Nicholas Winton Archive
Southampton Anglo-Jewish Archives
St Albans Masorti Synagogue Roots
Tales of Jewish Sudan
Tate Archive
The National Archives
The Rothschild Archive
Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
UCL Special Collections
University of Leeds Special Collections
We Were There Too
West Yorkshire Archive Service
Wiener Holocaust Library
World Jewish Relief Archives