Documentation regarding the deportation of the Jews from the district of Maehrisch-Ostrau, Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia, 1942-1944

Documentation regarding the deportation of the Jews from the district of Maehrisch-Ostrau, Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia, 1942-1944 This file contains: - Documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Maehrisch-Ostrau to Theresienstadt, 03 August 1942, and the request of Hungarian Jews and Jews from the Protectorate for passports or visas in order to return to Hungary or Slovakia, August 1942; - Correspondence between the police headquarters of Maehrisch-Ostrau, the mayor of Maehrisch-Ostrau, the Office for Nutrition in Maehrisch-Ostrau, the Gestapo in Brno (Bruenn), the field office in Maehrisch-Ostrau, and the District Commissioner of Friedberg (Mistek) regarding the deported Jews and their assets, August-September 1942; - Telegrams from the Gestapo in Brno (Bruenn) to the field office in Maehrisch-Ostrau regarding the deportation of Jews from Maehrisch-Ostrau, fugitive Jews and the request for lists of the deportees, September 1942; - Statistical compilation regarding the registered Jews of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Poland, Romania, Silesia, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, the German Reich, and the stateless Jews; - Letter to the Jewish community in Prague, branch office Maehrisch-Ostrau, from the Gestapo in Brno (Bruenn) and the field office in Maehrisch-Ostrau, regarding the need for Jewish workers, especially craftsmen, in preparation for the transports of Jews, September 1942; - Order of the security police and the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) to the Gestapo field office in Maehrisch-Ostrau to arrest Jews who have avoided deportation; handwritten notes; report submitted by the police in Friedeck regarding successful manhunts and failures, September 1942; - Telegram from the Gestapo field office in Wsetin to the field office in Maehrisch-Ostrau regarding the arrest of Jews; list of Jews detained in prisons or in concentration camps, September 1942; - Telegrams regarding the deportation of about 300 Jews from Brno, personal information about the 300 Jews (citizenship, age,and more), the order not to deport foreign Jews or Jewish spouses of Aryans with children, the military escort, the restriction to male Jews; - Documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Maehrisch-Ostrau to Theresienstadt in 4 transports (each transport with 860 persons); first transport: 17 September 1942; second transport: 21 September 1942; third transport: 25 September 1942, fourth transport: 30 September 19423(?); evacuation numbers; names of Jews who escaped and Jews who committed suicide, September 1942-January 1943; - Documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Maehrisch-Ostrau with a list of deportees, 09 June 1943 and 29 June 1943, June 1943; - Documentation regarding the imprisonment and release of Jews in Maehrisch-Ostrau, October 1943; - Order issued by the Gestapo in Brno (Bruenn) to all field offices to arrest all Jews with Italian, Swiss, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish citizenship who are not married to a German citizen, and arrange for their deportation to Buchenwald and Ravensbrueck, 08 October 1943; - Order issued by the Gestapo in Brno (Bruenn) to all field offices to arrest all Hungarian Jews and arrange for their deportation to Bergen-Belsen, including a list of Jews whose citizenship needs verification, March 1944; - Documentation regarding deportees and those who escaped, March-May 1944; - Names of Jews in the district of Maehrisch-Ostrau with Italian or Hungarian citizenship.