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Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943 Poland: The Lodz Ghetto; deportations to the ghetto and sealing of the ghetto; Rumkowski's activities; labor camps in the vicinity of Lublin; Judenrat activities in the Warsaw Ghetto; ghettos for Poles in places where there had formerly been ghettos for Jews; legislation against the non-German population in the Generalgouvernement; annihilation of Jews in the camps; Germany: Testimony from a woman regarding air-raids in...

File Number : 28

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Jewish community in Bamberg regarding the welfare rights of Jewish citizens of Poland [in Germany], the sale of confiscated property and deportations, 1934-1943

Documentation of the Jewish community in Bamberg regarding the welfare rights of Jewish citizens of Poland [in Germany], the sale of confiscated property and deportations, 1934-1943 Pages 1-8: Letter from the German Foreign Ministry to the Polish Ambassador in Germany regarding the treatment of needy Polish Jewish citizens asking for assistance from the Reich authorities, 11 July 1934; Pages 9-10: Guidelines issued by the German Ministry of the Interior to the Ministries of the Interior of the various countries regarding the treatment of needy Polish Jewish citizens asking for assistance from the Reich...

File Number : 374

Type of Material : List of Deportees, Official Documentation

Language : German

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

Official documentation regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in Trieste, 1944-1945

Included in the file: - Protocol from a Court session in Hannover, regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in Trieste, 27 January 1954; - Protocol from a conversation that took place with Professor Grumach regarding his forced labor in Amt VII; - [Documentation regarding] the confiscation of books on topics dealing with Jews and Freemasons [?];

File Number : 55

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Nazi Party regarding Kristallnacht and the confiscation of property

Documentation of the Nazi Party regarding Kristallnacht and the confiscation of property - Petition by workers of the Allgemeinen Radium A.G Berlin factory protesting against the hiring of a member of the Nazi Party, 29 September 1932; - Circulars of the Student Union in Munich, [regarding?] their relationship with the Nazi Party, 1935; - Correspondence and lists from the Landesanstalt (State Institute-prison) Neustrelitz-Strelitz, regarding Jews who were detained, November 1938-March 1939; - Instructions published by the engineer, Peters, from the Central Nazi Party in Klagenfurt, regarding the...

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Hanna Johanna (Memelsdorff) Marcus, born in Samter, Germany, 1886, regarding the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" Jewish weekly newspaper published in Berlin, November 1938-October 1939, and testimony of Dr. Fritz Simon Neumann, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding the Jews associated with the Mitteldeutsche Bodenkreditanstalt (mortgage bank) in Berlin, 1933-1936 Pages 2 - 7 Hanna Marcus - Biography of Hanna Marcus until 1933; her work as part of the administration of the "Juedische Rundschau" (Jewish weekly newspaper), 1934-November 1938, and as manager of the building at Meinekestrasse...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Letters of testimony written by Jenny Wilde in Berlin regarding her library work in Theresienstadt, 1946

Letters of testimony written by Jenny Wilde in Berlin regarding her library work in Theresienstadt, 1946 Confiscation of all Judaica and Hebrew works in the camp; witness is ordered to catalogue the material for the Research Institute in Munich by the Aryan commandant; assignment of 40 rabbis and scholars as her helpers; early difficulties, especially in the transcription of the work; deportation of the contributors and cessation of the project, late 1944; rescue of all the scriptures.

File Number : 70

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Hanna Johanna (Memelsdorff) Marcus, born in Samter, Germany, 1886, regarding the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" Jewish weekly newspaper published in Berlin, November 1938-October 1939

Testimony of Hanna Johanna (Memelsdorff) Marcus, born in Samter, Germany, 1886, regarding the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" Jewish weekly newspaper published in Berlin, November 1938-October 1939 - Biography of Hanna Marcus until 1933; her work as part of the administration of the "Juedische Rundschau" (Jewish weekly newspaper), 1934-November 1938, and as manager of the building at Meinekestrasse 10 which housed the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany), the Palaestina-Amt (Palestine Office), the "Juedischer Rundschau", the "Hechalutz" youth movement and other...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

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