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Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in Romania and Hungary (also after the war) and rescue attempts, May 1944-January 1945 Pages 1-6: Report transmitted from the US Legation in Bern regarding rescue activities in Romania and a plan to take 5,000 children out of Romania (French original, English translation), a cover letter from the US Legation in Stockholm regarding the treatment of Jews by various Romanian personalities, May 1944; Pages 7-12: Document of the War Refugee...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Statistical Data, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English

Correspondence and reports by the WRB (War Refugee Board) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of the Jews and rescue efforts, 1943-1944 Page 1: Message from the US State Department to the US Consul in Istanbul with a summary of what was said by the Hungarian Minister of the Interior, Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, during a discussion in the Hungarian Parliament regarding the illegal infiltration of Jews into Hungary, December 1943; Pages 2-4: Memorandum by H. W. Emerson from the US Embassy in London summarizing a...

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding relief for Jews, also following liberation, primarily in Hungary, and rescue attempts, 1944 Included in the file: Volume 1 (pages 1-105): Pages 1-2: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department in Washington, notifying of the illegal entry into Hungary of thousands of Jews from the neighboring countries, 23 December 1943; Pages 3-7: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department including the testimony of a Polish...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Statistical Data

Language : English

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) of the Sudetenland area, regarding books confiscated in the Sudetenland area, 15/10/1938

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) of the Sudetenland area, regarding books confiscated in the Sudetenland area, 15/10/1938 Responsibility by Rosenberg for the Nazi Party's ideological education; Rosenberg requests that his Dienststelle (local office) take part in the examination of the Jewish, the religious and the Marxist books that were confiscated in the Sudetenland area, for the purpose of the establishment of the library being planned as part of the Nazi Party's school of higher education; The document is part of the Evidence material at the...

File Number : 64

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to Alfred Rosenberg by Konard Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) in the Sudetenland area, regarding the confiscation of books in the Sudetenland area, 1938

Letter sent to Alfred Rosenberg by Konard Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) in the Sudetenland area, regarding the confiscation of books in the Sudetenland area, 1938 Instruction given by Henlein to Dr. Suchy to confiscate Jewish, Konfessionellen (religious) and Marxist libraries for the purpose of supporting Rosenberg's educational activities; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is in the book: Red series, iii, pp. 238-239; The document in English is in PS 285.

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Two letters by Dr. Thomson, chief director of operations (Haupteinsatzfuehrer) in departmental library (Stabsfuehrung) no. IV/6 in the operational headquarters of Rosenberg (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter), 1943 - Letters by SS-Standartenfuhrer Helmut Sievers, acting director of the "Ancestral Heritage" (Amt Ahnenerebe) office, to Eichmann, regarding the preparation of a collection of skeletons from corpses of Auschwitz inmates in order to form a scientific basis regarding racial theory; - Translations to English of the letters, which were prepared for the prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials (document no....

File Number : 340

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Dr Siegmund E. Hadda, born in Cosel, Germany, 1882, former Medical Director of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau, regarding the history of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau, the years under the Nazi regime, and operating and living conditions for Jews until the deportation of the last Jews from Breslau to Theresienstadt, June 1943 Dr Siegmund E. Hadda was the last Medical Director of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau. - Deportation of the last officials of the Jewish community of Breslau to Theresienstadt (18 people, including their spouses and children), 16 June 1943, marking the end of the German...

File Number : 259

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Literary description written by Schalom Ben-Chorin (Fritz Rosenthal), the journalist and religious scholar, regarding his detention, imprisonment and release by the Gestapo at the Ettstarasse prison in Munich, April and November 1933 Arrest of Shalom Ben-Chorin in the home of his mother (Marie Rosenthal) in Munich by the Gestapo; confiscation of a literary manuscript and Hoelderlin's Hyperion; humiliation and a harsh beating leading to fracture of his nasal bone; two separate detentions in the Munich Ettstrasse police prison, one for two days, in April 1933, and one for six days, in November 1933; detailed...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of Rabbi Brilling regarding his experiences as an archivist in Berlin, Germany, under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939

Memoirs of Rabbi Brilling regarding his experiences as an archivist in Berlin, Germany, under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939 - Minor interest in Jewish community archival collections before 1933; - Drastic increase in inquiries at the Prussian Central Archive after April 1933 due to the required Aryan certificates; examples of instances when there were attempts to manipulate the certificates for the better for the person concerned; - Closure of the Wroclaw (Breslau) Archive by the Gestapo; collection of the library; death of Rabbi Heppner (the archivist of the Wroclaw Archive), November 1938; -...

File Number : 95

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Rosa Rachel Schwarz, former Director of the Youth and Social Welfare Department of the Vienna (Austria) Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community), regarding her experiences under the Nazi regime, 1938-1940 - Work with Murmelstein, also an employee of the Kultusgemeinde, who was responsible for issuing passes; Murmelstein's ungenerous behavior (p. 2); - German occupation of Vienna, 12 March 1938; information received at midday regarding the seizure of the children's outpatient clinic; visit to the Jewish community by the German authorities: inspection of the accounting procedures, confiscation of the...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony, List, Official Documentation

Language : German

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