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This collection contains photographs, correspondence, school records and ephemera accrued by Hella Scholz during her youth and early adulthood. They provide insights into her life in Germany before and during the Second World War, which revolved mainly around school, hobbies, boyfriends and holidays. Wartime administration and the Nazi regime feature faintly in the backdrop: Hella was a member of Hitler Youth and of Bundes Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls), the girls’ wing of the Nazi Party youth movement. However, apart from owning a portrait of Adolph Hitler, there is no indication of Hella being a Nazi sympathiser, she was simply a young middle-class girl growing up during the Nazi regime. Some of the collection highlights include Hella’s correspondence with Günther Junge, a rare enough example of an exchange in which the letters of both parties survive, and an extensive photographic record of Hella’s life. The collection provides intimate glimpses of a life which remained remarkably happy and stable during an extraordinarily dark period of European history. Spanning as it does the rise and fall of National Socialism in twentieth-century Germany and post-war Britain, it forms a rewarding primary source for researchers of this era.

This series contains correspondence, birth certificates, wills and other testamentary records and other documents relating to Hella Scholz's immediate family.

This sub-series contains wills and other testamentary records and other documents relating to Hella Scholz's father Bruno Scholz and her paternal grandfather August Albert Scholz.

Typed copy of the will of Hella’s paternal grandfather, Albert Scholz.

Itemised valuation of the contents of each room in Bruno Scholz’s apartment at Lindenallee 26, Charlottenburg 9, [Berlin]. Lacking page 8.

Bruno Scholz’s account book with Deutsche Bank. With a loose insert of a sheet of blotting paper bearing a Deutsche Bank advertisement.

Two postcards advertising Bruno Scholz’s building materials wholesale business.

Two blank waybill forms for the delivery of roof tiles bearing the name and address of Bruno Scholz’s building material wholesale business.

Certificate listing the heirs of Bruno Scholz who died in Berlin on 9 December 1948 and confirming their entitlement to the inheritance.

This sub-series contains birth and baptismal records and the will of Hella Scholz's mother Klara (Clara) née Kaiser.