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Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg): Correspondence of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community), later the Aeltestenrat der Juden (Council of Elders of the Jews), Luxembourg, primarily with the German authorities; a report on the persecution of the Luxembourg Jews and miscellaneous, 1940-1943

Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg): Correspondence of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community), later the Aeltestenrat der Juden (Council of Elders of the Jews), Luxembourg, primarily with the German authorities; a report on the persecution of the Luxembourg Jews; miscellaneous topics, 1940-1943 Pp. 6-10, 15-19, 32-36, 38-46, 49-58, 80-84: Correspondence of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community) later the Aeltestenrat der Juden (Council of Elders of the Jews), Luxembourg, the Restvereinigung der juedischen Mischehepartner (Remainder [?] Association of Jewish Intermarriage Partners), the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), Berlin, the Chief of the Civil Administration, the liquidator Erich Pies, and others regarding, among other topics - The yellow badge; - The marking of Jewish homes; - Removal of the Jews from Echternach during the District Nazi Party Congress to be held there; - Medical records and the death of Josef Bonem; - Compulsory addition of the first names "Israel" and "Sara"; - The sale of furniture; - Alimonies, liquidation and frozen accounts; - Community affairs; - Use of buildings; - Liquidation of Jewish businesses; - Forced eviction; - Emigration to France, Spain and Portugal; - Fire damages in the synagogue; - The members of the Jewish Consistory. Pp. 12-14: Personal data relating to the Bonem siblings, Mondorf; Pp. 30-31, 37: Handout, apparently regarding emigration from Luxembourg to Lisbon, Portugal; Pp. 47-49: Report by A. Oppenheimer regarding the persecution of Jews in Luxembourg since the start of the German occupation, 10 May 1940, including - Confiscation of Jewish property and assets; - Establishment of a German civil administration with District Inspector Ackerman responsible for the administration of Jewish property; - Prohibition on keeping pets; - Transfer of textiles and other goods to the German authorities; - Forced implementation of anti-Jewish measures by the Aeltestenrat der Juden; - The yellow badge and compulsory additional first names; - Threat of deportation for non-compliance with the measures; - Concentration of Jews near Ulflingen in the former Fuenfbrunnen monastery; - Arbitrary measures adopted by Obergruppenfuehrer Hartmann, head of the Gestapo; - A total of eight deportations of 800 Jews to Theresienstadt and Poland, 19 October 1941-19 June 1943; return of about 35 people; Pp. 60-78: - Index of transferred woolen goods; - Certificate regarding the Jewish war veteran Leo Herschtritt, 16 February 1935; - Personal letters; - Newspaper clipping regarding testimonies relating to the Holocaust, October 1972; - Miscellaneous. Names of Jews mentioned in the documents: - Martin Meyer, Alfred Oppenheimer, pp. 6ff; - Meyer and his wife, Simon Wolf and his wife, Adolf Steinberger and his wife, Dr. Alexander Bonn, Dr. Roth, p. 10; - The siblings Albert, Josef, Mayer and Pauline Bonem, pp. 11f; - Ferd. Bonem, p. 42; - Eugène Kleeblatt-Cain, Paul Hirsch, pp. 51ff; - Siegmund Leib, Louis Sternberg, pp. 52, 57, 80ff; - Kahn, pp. 53-54; - Berek Gelbart-Hirszlikowice, Heinrich Hermann, Isidor Lazar, Marx Raphael, Ernst Simon, p. 54; - Ernst Meyer, Ernst Levy, S. Ackermann, p. 55; - The Salomon Herz family, Marx Herz, Ludwig Ermann and his wife, Henriette Kahn, Lippmann Herz, Edith Levy, p. 56; - Berthold Lieben, p. 57; - Selma, pp. 68ff; - Sommer-Bonem, Sommer, the Sally Kahn family, p. 58; - Alma and Hugo Heumann, pp. 71ff; - Albert Nussbaum, p. 80. [See also list-items 11127566, 11127582, 11127605]
item Id
11120656
Type of material
Certification
Correspondence
Names
Newspaper clippings
Official documentation
Report
File Number
JM/31286-1
Language
German
Record Group
M.79 - Archives in Luxemburg
Date of Creation - earliest
16/02/1935
Date of Creation - latest
20/10/1972
Name of Submitter
Paul Doster
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
80
Archival Signature
FD-083-40
Location of Originals
Archives Nationales Luxembourg
Connected to Item
M.79 - Documentation of the Jewish community of Luxembourg regarding the persecution of Luxembourg Jews during the Holocaust, 1932-1990