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Testimonies of Jewish victims and Nazi German defendants (1950-1968) in several trials conducted against former Gestapo officers, pre-trial hearings of witnesses in the trial against Otto Bovensiepen and other staff members at the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) in Berlin (1969-1971), including pleas and vignettes about Adolf Eichmann Pre-trial hearings regarding deportation of Jews to extermination camps; interrogation of criminals, Jewish victims and others; general information regarding deportations from Berlin; this file includes documents from other proceedings against Nazi criminals; the...

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : German

Evakuierung der Juden aus Wien - Sonderbehandlung (Deportation of the Jews of Vienna -special handling) to the Generalgouvernement in Poland

Evakuierung der Juden aus Wien - Sonderbehandlung (Deportation of the Jews of Vienna -special handling) to the Generalgouvernement in Poland - Decisions made by the Gestapo at a joint meeting of Dr. Karl Ebner, Anton Brunner, Laube and Herbert Mueller on the question of the special handling and the special treatment of the Jews destined for deportation to the Generalgouvernement: disabled World War I veterans, Mischlinge, former government officials, Jews with emigration papers, those with foreign citizenship, those suffering from incurable diseases, the elderly, 12 February 1941; - Gestapo orders...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Menczer

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Menczer - Unbedenklichkeits Bescheinigung (Exit Visa) issued by the German Treasury Office; - Personal questionnaire for the Central Office for Jewish Emigration; - Gordonia membership notebook, 24 October 1934; - Release certificate from the Doppl labor camp signed by Kucera, the SS man; - Poem/song in honor of Aron Menczer's 24th birthday; Correspondence with Dr. Josef Loewenherz regarding Anton Brunner's efforts to release Menczer from Doppl; - Menczer's correspondence with Martin Vogel, from the Vienna Youth Aliyah office. - A passport of -...

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Poems/songs

Language : German

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...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Diary, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Jewish community in Vienna regarding confiscation of property, deportations, forced labor and emigration, 1939-1942

Documentation of the Jewish community in Vienna regarding confiscation of property, deportations, forced labor and emigration, 1939-1942 - Anti-Jewish legislation; - Regulation No. 3 regarding the obligation to hand over jewelry [to the authorities]; easing of restrictions on basic items for personal use and for Mischlinge who are exempt from the obligation to turn in valuables; - German plan for a transfer of 450,000 Jews to the United States [?]; - Jewish community announcement regarding the drafting of able-bodied people, aged 18-50, and their deportation to settlement labor in Poland; guideline...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Survey Report, Administrative Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Hedwig Rosenthal regarding her experiences in Berlin and Theresienstadt, 1933-1945

Testimony of Hedwig Rosenthal regarding her experiences in Berlin and Theresienstadt, 1933-1945 In her testimony Hedwig Rosenthal, whose husband had owned a textile business in Berlin until his retirement in 1930, reports on her and her husband’s experiences during the Nazi era: - Life in Berlin from 1933 onward: Work for the clothing depot of the Jewish community in Berlin until January 1939, when she was banned from her profession . - In August 1940, Hedwig Rosenthal and her husband were expelled from their apartment and moved into a so-called "Judenhaus". - Evacuation to an old age home in...

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German