Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg) containing information regarding the situation in Luxembourg; correspondence between the Jewish Consistories of Luxemburg and Trier, 1940-1942

Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg) containing information regarding the situation in Luxembourg; correspondence between the Jewish Consistories of Luxemburg and Trier, 1940-1942 In the file: Correspondence between the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community), later known as the Council of Elders of the Jews, Luxembourg, and various German authorities, including the task force of the Luxembourg Security Police, police headquarters in Luxemburg and the chief of the Luxembourg civil administration regarding, among other topics: - Confiscation of furniture belonging to Jews; - Renaming of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde to the Aeltestenrat der Juden (Council of Elders of the Jews); - Travel permits; - Requests to ease the curfew; - Information regarding emigration, deportation and detention of the Luxembourg Jews; - Statistics regarding the number of male and female members of the Jewish community; - An eviction notice; - A request to be allowed to hold prayer services and events without any disturbances; - Correspondence between the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (later the Council of Elders of the Jews) and the Bezirksstelle Rheinland der Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Rhineland District Office of the National Association of Jews in Germany), Trier, containinging information regarding members of the Jewish community in Luxembourg, both those who were deported to Poland and those who remained in Luxembourg. Lists of - Various Jewish associations and institutions and their members; - Jews who emigrated; - Members of the Jewish community in Luxembourg. Also in the file: - Work certificate issued 20 October 1941; - Postcard from the Elders of Jews in Litzmannstadt [Lodz] providing information regarding a family deported to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 22 June 1942; - Personal letters and postcards, apparently from deported Jews, originally from Luxembourg; - Letter regarding the destruction of the Beth Am Ivri Synagogue. Names of Jews mentioned in the documentation: - Siegmund Leib, pp. 84, 91; - Jonas Leib, p. 84; - Martin Meyer, pp. 87-89; - Alfred Oppenheimer, pp. 87-89; - Paul Hirsh[?], p. 88; - Felix Marx, p. 89-90; - S. Faktor... [?], p. 90; - Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, p. 90; - Louis Sternberg, p. 91; - Leo Levy, pp. 92-93; - Alice Bonn, p. 93; - Carmen Fanny Salomon, p. 94; - Charles Brahms, p. 94; - Kurt, Ludwig, Johanna, Leopold and Juliane Mayer, p. 102. See also list items 11013355, 11013538, 11013720, 1101393.