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Investigation material of the charges against Mueller-Scholtes, assistant to the Chief of the Berlin Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946

Investigation material of the charges against Mueller-Scholtes, assistant to the Chief of the Berlin Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Charges against Mueller-Scholtes, assistant to the Polizepraesident (Chief) of the Berlin Police, Count Helldorf, for the extortion of Jews who wanted to emigrate from Germany; appeals to the Police by well-to-do Jewish residents in Berlin, in October 1938, with the request to receive passports, while making payment of all the fees and fines required for emigration; rejection of the applications of the well-to-do Jews, with an explanation that they must pay...

File Number : 262

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

Language : English, German

Investigation and trial documentation by the Berlin Gestapo against Elisabeth-Marie Remmlinger, Hans-Rudolf Mohr, Bruno Haack and Eugen Koke, who helped Berlin Jews to be exempted from deportation in the years 1941 - 1942 Investigation and trial documentation by the Berlin Gestapo against Elisabeth-Marie Remmlinger and Hans-Rudolf Mohr, who helped Berlin Jews to be exempted from deportation in the January 1942 (pp.2-111) Anonymous denunciations against Elisabeth-Marie Remmlinger and Hans-Rudolf Mohr from Berlin, suspected of helping Jews to be exempted from deportation in January 1942. Among the Jews...

File Number : 177

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Letter of Testimony, Page of Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : German

Group testimony of Jonas Beer, born in Jaworow, Poland, 1911, and of Wlodzimierz Hochberg, born in Ozomla, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Jaworow after the German occupation

Group testimony of Jonas Beer, born in Jaworow, Poland, 1911, and of Wlodzimierz Hochberg, born in Ozomla, Poland, 1907, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Jaworow after the German occupation Order of the Germans to establish a Judenrat for continuous supply of Jewish laborers according to demand and carrying out of any other orders, immediately after the occupation of Jaworow, 05 June 1941; success of a few in crossing the border to the Soviet side; taking of Jews for forced labor without pay or food; order for an immediate clearing of the Jewish cemetery of all tomb stones and leveling of the area by...

File Number : 514

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Article written by Dr. Fritz Berger in response to the book, "Die Geschichte von Joel Brand" (The Story of Joel Brand) by Alex Weissberg, comparing rescue operations for Jews in Germany and in Hungary - Berger, who was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1902, compares the description of rescue operations for Hungarian Jews as presented by Brand and Weissberg with his own experiences as someone who organized rescue operations in Germany. - Berger's main thesis is that the initial rescue operations conducted by Jews in Germany were more organized and more efficient because the German Jews sensed Hitler's...

File Number : 316

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Ludwig Ruge, based on his memories as a German lawyer, 1933-1945

Testimony of Dr. Ludwig Ruge, based on his memories as a German lawyer, 1933-1945 In the file: - Covering report prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding "Stories from His Life, Told to His Friends", the testimony of Dr. Ludwig Ruge, from his memoirs (pp. 2-4), April 1960; - Yad Vashem file card regarding the memories of Dr. Ludwig Ruge (p. 5); Excerpts from "Stories from His Life, Told to His Friends", the memoirs of the German lawyer Dr. Ludwig Ruge including: - Implementation of the Hindenburg clause which appeared in Nazi legislation regarding non-Aryans, and included exceptions for...

File Number : 264

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences before and during his emigration from Germany

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, 1908, regarding his experiences before and during his emigration from Germany - Delays his emigration despite Gestapo pressure to leave earlier due to concern over his wife's daughter from her first marriage whom he did not want to leave behind; refusal of the United States to permit Rabbi Nussbaum to emigrate with the step-daughter; - Proceeds with the emigration process without the child; entrusts his step-daughter to Julius Seligsohn, a friend, who finds her another country to which to emigrate and then rejoin her family; detailed...

File Number : 223

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Berlin under Nazi rule until his emigration in 1940

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences under Nazi rule in Berlin until his emigration in 1940 - Summons to the Berlin Gestapo, 1937; interrogation by Kuchmann, an officer responsible for Jewish Affairs; request that Rabbi Nussbaum resign from the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist Association (most likely the Zionist Association that split from the ZVfD in 1925); refusal of the witness to comply with the request; order to refrain from any activity in public outside of his...

File Number : 222

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Israel Bleyberg, born in Radymno, Poland, 1895, regarding the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews from Germany), October 1938

Testimony of Israel Bleyberg, born in Radymno, Poland, 1895, regarding the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews from Germany), October 1938 - Move to Germany, February 1913; work as a shoemaker; marriage; births of two children; - Removal of the witness from his home in Berlin by the police without notice in the middle of the night, 28 October 1938; transfer to the Blücher Street barracks; at noon, loaded on trucks with 126 men and brought to a train station (name not mentioned); reason given for the "Aktion": "the Polish government wanted to denationalize its citizens living abroad; the Germans...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen"

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen" 1940 - Initial reactions to the German occupation: flight or suicide; the measures of Seyss-Inquart; help and sympathy from the non-Jewish Dutch; Christian protests; economic measures against the Jews; Nazi corruption; Jewish institutions; 1941 - Legal emigration; illegal emigration; Jewish underground; Amsterdam Ghetto; resistance in the Amsterdam Ghetto; deportation to Mauthausen; Jewish collaboration; cultural life; work of the...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English

Excerpt from a lecture delivered by Dr. Fritz Pick, born in Lissa, Poland, 1887, regarding insider information concerning the Holocaust of the Dutch Jews, January 2, 1945, as recorded and transcribed by Dr. K. J. Ball The lecture delivered by Dr. Pick was based on Jacob Harari’s brochure, “Die Ausrottung der Juden im besetzten Holland. Ein Tatsachenbericht“ (The Annihilation of the Jews in the Occupied Netherlands, A Factual Report), Tel Aviv, Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa, 1944, Or.wrps. 100 pp.; the brochure can be found online as a pdf-document under:...

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

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