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Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg, regarding correspondence with the German authorities and others; transfer of various properties from Jewish ownership to the German authorities; anti-Jewish decrees; proceedings regarding intermarriage, Aryanization and liquidation of Jewish businesses; deportation and emigration of Luxembourg Jews; and community matters, 1940-1944

Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg, regarding correspondence with the German authorities and others; transfer of various properties from Jewish ownership to the German authorities; anti-Jewish decrees; proceedings regarding intermarriage, Aryanization and liquidation of Jewish businesses; deportation and emigration of Luxembourg Jews; and community matters, 1940-1944 Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg): Correspondence with the German authorities, among others; documentation relating to the transfer of various properties from Jewish ownership to the German authorities; anti-Jewish decrees; proceedings related to intermarriage, Aryanization and liquidation of Jewish businesses, and deportation and emigration of Luxembourg Jews; and community matters, 1940-1944 Pp. 88-107: Certificates and a letter from the Aeltestenrat der Juden (Council of Elders of the Jews), Luxembourg, regarding the sickness of a former community member, June 1942; Pp. 106-107, 109-128: Correspondence of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Jewish Community of Luxembourg), later the Aeltestenrat der Juden, Luxembourg, with the Chief of the civil administration, Luxembourg, and others, regarding - A birth certificate; - Requests of community members for financial help; - Liquidation of Jewish businesses, frozen accounts and provisional administration; Pp. 107-198; - Telegram from Luxembourg emigrants reporting their arrival in Barcelona, 14 November 1941; - Note regarding an extramarital sexual relationship between a Jewish woman and a German citizen, as well as the status of their son; Pp. 132-135: - Notes regarding Jews; - Report on a forced entry into the synagogue in Luxembourg, 22 October 1940; Pp. 134-147, 185, 188-191: Circulars issued by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, later the Aeltestenrat der Juden, Luxembourg, to the community members, and correspondence with the Einsatzkommando der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (task force of the Security Police and SD) regarding - The transfer of textiles to the German authorities; - The transfer of records, record players and other electric appliances to the German authorities; - The law prohibiting Jews from going to hairdressers; - The transfer of silver cutlery to the German authorities; - The law prohibiting Jews from purchasing newspapers and magazines; - The law prohibiting Jews from using public telephones; - The marking of Jews (yellow badge); - Remaining off the streets; - The transfer of bicycles to the German authorities; - The transfer of furs and winter clothes to the German authorities; - The marking of Jewish homes; - The transfer of typewriters and cameras to the German authorities; - An appeal to send money to the deported Luxembourg Jews in Litzmannstadt (Lodz); - The law prohibiting personal contact between Jews and Aryans; - Leaving of the residential community only with permission from German authorities; - The registration of typewriters, bicycles, cameras, and so on; - Deportation of the Luxembourg Jews; - Postal communication with community members deported to Litzmannstadt; Pp. 148-159: - Miscellaneous information regarding community members; - Blank forms for entering personal data; Pp. 160-168: - Letter from Tun Lambert regarding the Restvereinigung der juedischen Mischehenpartner (Remainder (?) Association of Jewish Intermarriage Partners) and two Jewish women, Margareta (Steinberg) Eisenloeffel and Rosa Weiner, both married to non-Jewish partners, who were never deported, Luxembourg, 02 March 1972 (in French); - Medical certificate and a birth certificate relating to Margareta (Steinberg) Eisenloeffe, 1943-1944; - Letters from the Restvereinigung der juedischen Mischehenpartner to Margot (Margarete) Eisenloeffel regarding the birth of her daughter, March 1944; Pp.169-170; - Letter from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), Berlin, to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde regarding the supply of Matzot, March 1941; - Documentation certifying the transfer of a bicycle, October 1941; Pp. 174-184: - Documentation regarding the death of a community member, and inheritance matters pertaining to his death; P. 186: - Documentation regarding the Aryanization of Jewish businesses in Luxembourg; Pp. 192-205: - Documentation regarding Luxembourg foreign exchange legislation, August 1940; - Gazettes for Luxembourg, October and December 1940; - Accounts presented by the Entr'Aide Israélite regarding aid payments, 1950; Pages 206-212: Various correspondence: - Letter from the Chief of the civil administration, Luxembourg, to a Jewish community member regarding her bank accounts; - Personal letter; - Letter from Hedy Imbach searching for her brother, Bruno Imbach, a member of the Refugee Committee in Amsterdam, who was deported to Westerbork, and from there either to a labor camp in Germany or to Poland, October 1944 (in English). Names of Jews mentioned in the documentation: - Martin Meyer, Israel Oppenheimer, Max Reinheimer, Dr. Cohen, Heinrich Cerf, Dr. Simon Hertz, pp. 91ff; - Dr. Ansbach, pp. 93ff; - Dr. Lustig, pp. 98ff; - Sofie Railing, pp. 107-108; - Rosa Weiner, pp. 108, 160ff; - Karl Schnog, Nussbaum, pp. 109ff; - Siegmund Leib, Louis Sternberg; Arthur and Sophie Wolff-Friedmann; Johanna, Sonja and Ernst Deutsch; Leon Wolff, pp 112-ff; - Julius Leiser, Alfred Oppenheimer, pp. 122ff; - Anna Steiner, Friederike Weiner, pp. 132-133; - Flora Moritz, Bernhard Michel, Gothan Joseph, p. 146; - Lazarus Burg, p. 148; - Viktor Flenniger, p. 150; - Margareta (Steinberg) Eisenloeffel, pp. 160ff; - Sally Kahn, Dr. Eugen Roth, pp. 169-170; - Regina Baldauff, Leo Levy, Alfred Oppenheimer, Julius Leiser, pp. 174ff; - Amelie Gerstle, p. 182; - Frieda Roos, Anita Wolf, M. Warburg, pp. 206-207; - Hedy, Bruno, Ilse and Daniela Imbach, Marion Imbach or Borchardt, Hans Meyer, Mrs. Vantyn, Ignaz Bergenthal, pp. 208ff. [See also list-item 11128250]
item Id
11127770
Type of material
Certification
Correspondence
Names
Official documentation
Report
File Number
JM/31286-2
Language
French
English
German
Record Group
M.79 - Archives in Luxemburg
Date of Creation - earliest
23/06/1940
Date of Creation - latest
02/03/1972
Name of Submitter
Paul Doster
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
128
Archival Signature
FD-083-41
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