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M. 51 - Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany)

M. 51 - Documantation of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) History of the Organization The organization was apparently founded in early 1939 by representatives of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (Reich's Deputation of the German Jews). In July 1939, an ordinance was published by the authorities concerning the establishment of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, which replaced the Reich's Deputation of the German Jews. In the words of its Chairman, "... [it will serve as] a new organizational basis for the dwindling population...

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Statistical Data, Record of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons, List of Deportees, Protocol

Language : 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 : Page of Testimony, Investigation Report, Legal Documentation, Letter of Testimony

Language : German

Correspondence of the Juedische Jugendhilfe (Jewish Youth Support Committee), 1933-1939

Correspondence of the Juedische Jugendhilfe (Jewish Youth Support Committee), 1933-1939 - Correspondence between Nissim Buko Lewy and the Hadassah organization, regarding emigration on a Bulgarian ship via Varna; - Correspondence between the Berlin Jewish community and the Juedische Winterhilfe (Jewish winter help) organization, in particular with Heinrich Stahl, Ruth Ehrlich, Max Gundersheim and Paul Eppstein, regarding charity and social issues; - Correspondence regarding matters of the Palaestina-Amt der Jewish Agency in Deutschland (Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel office in Germany).

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding measures taken against the Jews, especially in northwest Germany, 1939-1941; report submitted by Baruch Benno Zwi Hirsch Offenburg Ophir regarding his activities as a Hebrew teacher in Hamburg, Germany, and as a founder and director of an agricultural school in Italy In the file: Pp. 2-23, 24-39 [copy]: - Threats of extraordinary measures against Jews in the event of an outbreak of war made by the director of the Gestapo Department for Jewish Affairs; acceleration of emigration by the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland...

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Moritz Henschel, the last chairman of the Jewish community of Berlin, regarding the last years of the Jewish community in Berlin, 1938-1943

Testimony of Moritz Henschel, the last chairman of the Jewish community of Berlin, regarding the last years of the Jewish community in Berlin, 1938-1943 - Autonomy of the Jewish community in Berlin until 10 June 1943, then transformation into the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany); permission to conduct religious services after Kristallnacht; influx of members from smaller communities because of the special protection in Berlin; about 80,000 members in 1940, but lack of rabbis because most of the rabbis had emigrated; valuable religious articles shared...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1938

Testimony of Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1938 - Thoughts regarding Hindenburg's image and underestimation of Hitler by the German population; - The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, 01 April 1933; the subsequent law regarding admission to the legal profession, 07 April 1933; - Dr. Ball-Kaduri's journey to England for clarification of emigration possibilities for his sister, Erna Ball, and himself, 1933; - Account of a trial before the labor court: Case brought by a Jewish scientist against his dismissal; rejection of a settlement...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony by Martha Mosse regarding the fate of Berlin Jews during the war, 1959

Testimony by Martha Mosse regarding the fate of Berlin Jews during the war, 1959 Primary use of the old age home at Grosse Hamburgerstrasse as the transit camp for deportees to Theresienstadt; change of its function by Obersturmbannfuehrer Brunner into camp for deportees to other places in the East instead of the Levetzowstrasse synagogue; transfer of the transit camp for deportees to Theresienstadt to the Gerlachstrasse old age home; moving the elderly people from Gerlachstrasse to the old age home at Elsaesserstrasse; section for prisoners in the Grosse Hamburgerstrasse as the transit camp; many old people...

File Number : 974

Type of Material : Memoirs

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