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Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942

Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942 - Directive regarding the implementation of the Gesetz zur Verhuetung Erbkranken Nachwuschses (Law for Sterilization due to Hereditary Illnesses), including establishing the obligation for silence imposed on the physicians, as well as the clerks, who receive information regarding these surgeries in the context of their position, 28/06/1935 (page 1); - Directive by the Bavarian Office of the Interior,...

File Number : 284

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Language : German

Chef der Sipo und SD - Umwandererzentralstelle (UWZ) Posen: Correspondence regarding the need for advance announcements of the times scheduled for deportations by the various UWZ branches, 1941

Chef der Sipo und SD - Umwandererzentralstelle (UWZ) Posen: Correspondence regarding the need for advance announcements of the times scheduled for deportations by the various UWZ branches, 1941 In the file: - Correspondence mainly regarding the need for advanced announcements of the times scheduled for deportations by the various UWZ branches, in order to avoid logistical problems, such as providing sufficient train cars and other organizational considerations; - Letter referring to a list of asozial (antisocial) Poles in Schrimm/Srem; the list itself is not in the file.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin

Files of the Amstergericht (Magistrates Court) of the Charlottenburg neighborhood in Berlin Included in the files are: Official correspondence regarding the handling of the estates of Jews (some of the files include lists of the property in the estate); files related to Jewish owned companies and the bankruptcy (Konkurs) of Jewish owned companies; files related to declarations of incompetence (Entmuendigung) of Jews due to mental illness or cognitive disability; files related to the transfer of problematic (anti-social) young people, most of them Jewish, to special education settings and supervision over...

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Legal Documentation, Sentence, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1966 Note: Numerous of the testimonies included in this file are from witnesses who were questioned a second time. The reiterated questioning was in order to find out what kind of knowledge the former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) had about the deportation and murdering of the Jews from Berlin. The file includes i. A.: -Pre-trial...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony, Protocol

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1965 The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearing of the former employee of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, Franz Harder, as accused: Harder was suspected to have been involved in the act of confiscation and seizure of Jewish property: pp. 57-62. - Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin as...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony, Letter

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1965 The file includes i. A.: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin as witnesses: Information on the participation of former members of the Gestapoleitstelle in the prosecution and deportation of the Jews from Berlin; information on the act of confiscation and seizure of Jewish property by the...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946 Included in the file: 23/06/1942 Letter, marked as Classified, of SS-Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in which he suggests to select and preserve approximately two-three million fit-for-work Jews following their sterilization or castration by X-ray. (pp. 2-3). 27/10/1943 Letter of SS-Gruppenfuehrer Odilo Globocnik (from Triest) to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Maximilian von Herff in the...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports, Correspondence, Protocol, Orders, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Correspondence of the local SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) office in Zurich regarding antisemitism and additional documentation related to the struggle against Nazism, 1933-1935 In the file: -Correspondence of the local SIG office in Zurich, mainly with Saly Mayer, on the subject of the struggle against antisemitism and Nazism, and in particular, relating to dissemination of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"; - Series of documents from the DDK (Deutsch-Daenische-Korrespondenz Buero) in Copenhagen, regarding the persecution of the Jews in Germany,...

File Number : 74.1

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Sentence, Legal Documentation

Language : French, German

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1933-1943

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1933-1943 - Founding of the Gesellschaft fuer juedische Kunst und Wissenschaft (Society for Jewish Art and Science), 1933; absorption by the Juedischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation), 1939; support of illegal emigration by the consulates and the Hamburg Gestapo; forgery of documents regarding religion and profession in order to receive visas from various countries; - First "Akctions" against Jewish lodges: detention of board members by the Gestapo for one day, confiscation of the lodges' assets,...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Neufeld, prison chaplain in Elbing, Germany, 1933-1938

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Neufeld, prison chaplain in Elbing, Germany, 1933-1938 - The role of the prison chaplain before the Nazi rise to power; duties of Rabbi Dr. Neufeld before the takeover by the Nazis; almost no changes within the penal system in January 1933, but changes within the legal system; - Forced transfer of people unacceptable to the regime (political opponents, people who violated the Nuremberg Laws) from the independent city of Danzig to Elbing, Germany, by the Gestapo, in order to place them under German jurisdiction; threats of violent transfer in case of refusal; - Detention of...

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

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