Documentation from the Stadtarchiv München, Germany

- Files of Jewish businesses in the municipal office of businesses in Munich (Gewerbeamt); - Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941 (11045648) Richard Seligmann was born in Munich in 1890. Following his service in the German Army during World War I, he became an industrialist in the production of glass and mirrors (Spiegelglass). During the period of the Nazi rule he did his utmost to emigrate - but in vain. Seligmann was forced in 1939 to rescind the rights to his business, and he was evicted from his apartment in the same year and had to rent a smaller apartment. He was deported to Riga in November 1941, from where he did not return. Included in the collection is correspondence, mainly related to his efforts to emigrate (file 1, and at the start of the file are summaries of the content of the letters), his experiences, and official documentation related to the Nazi period (file 7), his photographs (file 8), a file that includes photographs and pictures of eagles as official Nazi symbols (file 9), Nazi Party pamphlets and announcements, various official forms, and in most part there are many newspaper clippings from the period; - Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942 The painter and artist Ilse Beate von Twardowski was born in Vienna on 20/01/1880. Her parents, who converted to Christianity in 1852, had her baptised to Christianity (English [?]) when she was a baby. She received her art training in Brussels. She married Ernst von Twardowski in 1910, and moved with him from Rome to Munich in 1914. During the Nazi rule she was forbidden, due to her Jewish origin, to work in her profession and she was removed from the Reichskammer für bildende Künste in 1936. She committed suicide on 09 August 1942 in order to evade deportation. Later on, a square in the city of Munich was named after her: Ilse-von-Twardowski-Platz. Included in the collection are personal documents, excerpts of memoirs that she wrote regarding her life, correspondence (among others with various artists, family members and her daughter Elisabeth), and letters of condolence that were sent to Ilse's daughter after her mother's death. In file no. 17 of the collection there are letters that were sent to Elisabeth by German financial authorities regarding the confiscation of her mother's property after her death, and a letter received from the Jewish community in Munich in November 1945, with authorization to register Elisabeth's mother in the card file of the Reichsvereinigung, and regarding her suicide; Additional materials that are in the possession of Yad Vashem, and which are available for viewing in the Yad Vashem Archives Reading Room are: - Files from the Kommunalreferat jued. Vermoegen in Munich, microfilms JM/28500; JM/28492 - JM28486; - Personal files of Jews: Three reels from the Bestand Volkskarteikarten - a card file with personal items (reels JM/31171 - JM/31173); Three reels from the Bestand Kennkarten-Doppel, which include identity documents of Jews (reels JM/31175 - 31174JM/ ,JM/31170); An additional reel including identity cards (Kennkarten), without affiliation to which record group in the Archives (reel JM/31168); Two reels from the Bestand Kennkarten Antraege, that include requests to receive identity cards (reels JM/31167 ,JM/31169); Fremdenpaesse reel - passports for foreigners (reel JM/31166); Reisepaesse reel - passports (reel JM/31176).