Report issued by Dr. Loewenherz based on a diary of meetings between Lowenherz and Adolf Eichmann and his assistants, 1938-1945

Report issued by Dr. Loewenherz based on a diary of meetings between Lowenherz and Adolf Eichmann and his assistants, 1938-1945 The main portion of the report concentrates on emigration, personal pressure and Eichmann's threats to speed up emigration of the Jews from Austria; description of Lowenherz' efforts to moderate Eichmann's decrees, the feeling of gloom pervading the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; damages to person and to property; pressures imposed on Lowenherz such as detention, house-arrest, threats of personal sanctions against him after discovery of the "Baum Group" Affair, the deportation period starting with the deportation of the Polish Jews, October 1938, the transports to the Generalgovernement as part of the Nisko Plan, deportations to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; emphasis on the direct responsibility of the Gestapo and the Zentralstelle (Central Office for the Emigration of the Jews of Austria) in the preparation of the lists of deportees; the claim that Loewenherz had no personal involvement except for determining the deportation destinations of the middle-age groups and the reduction of the number of children of mixed marriages deported, 1944-1945.