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Documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in the "occupied Eastern territories" (Soviet Union) during 1941-1944, including postwar testimonies and affidavits, administrative correspondence, reports, anti-Jewish decrees and orders, and other documents; documents dated, 1941-1965 Included in the file: 18/06/1943 (p. 3) Letter by the Reich Commissioner for the Ostland (Hinrich Lohse), addressed to the Reichsminister for the occupied Eastern territories (Alfred Rosenberg), regarding secret reports of the General Commissioner in Minsk, Wilhelm Kube, concerning the handling of the "Jewish...

File Number : 137

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Testimony, Survey Report, Reports, Correspondence, Circular, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Note

Language : German

Documentation concerning the governmental administration in the Ostland Reichskommissariat, 1941-1942

Documentation concerning the governmental administration in the Ostland Reichskommissariat, 1941-1942 Included in the file: 15/08/1941 Letter of request addressed to the Reichs Minister for the Eastern territories concerning the handling of foreign Jews in the Eastern territories (i.e. concerning Jews who are not German, Polish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian or Russian citizens, or stateless). (pp. 2-5). 08/1941 Preliminarily guidelines for the handling of Jews in the territory of the Reichskommissariat Ostland, marked as classified. (pp. 6-13). 30/08/1941 Order concerning the handling of...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Letter(s), Administrative Documentation, Document(s), Orders, Telegram, Laws and Decrees, Note

Language : German

Letter sent to the Generalkommissar of Belorussia by the office of the Reichsminister fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Minister for the Occupied Territories in the East), regarding the Jewish Problem, 1942 The letter is signed by Leibbrandt; request to send details regarding the Jewish Problem in Belorussia as quickly as possible, including the employment of Jews by German institutions; the office of the Reichs Minister for the Occupied Territories in the East aspires to reach a Regelung (Arrangement) for the Jewish Problem "as Swiftly as Possible" (so Rasch wie Moeglich); The letter was sent to the...

File Number : 193

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland) by the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East), regarding the concept of "Intermarriage", 1942 The letter relates to earlier appeals on the matter; update, that the new directives regarding Jewish concepts will appear in the near future, including the subject of intermarriage in the Ostland territories; the document is signed by Georg Leibbrandt, the Ministerialdirektor (Ministry director).

File Number : 172

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Telegram sent by Georg Leibbrandt, the Ministerialdirektor (Ministerial director) of the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East), to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), regarding a telegram concerning the Jews deported to the East, 13/11/1941 Transfer of a copy of the telegram regarding the handling of the Jews deported to Ostland, 09/11/1941; it mentions that an additional letter from him that was already sent will clarify the matter.

File Number : 163

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Telegram sent by Ministerialdirektor (Ministerial director) Georg Leibbrandt in the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East) to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), regarding Jews deported to the East, 09/11/1941 Continued arrival of Jews to the East; warning that the camps in Riga and Minsk can serve as a temporary solution only; See file O.18/159, for a printed copy of the telegram.

File Number : 162

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : German

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various documents regarding the World War II era and the outcome of the war

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various documents regarding the World War II era and the outcome of the war In the file: Pp. 1-3: Affidavit of Fritz Kahn regarding activities of pro-Nazi Germans in the United States during the 1930s (presented during the Nuremberg Trials, January 1948); P. 4: Response of the Reichsstatthalter in Hessen to a claim for compensation by a Swiss citizen, July 1941; Pp. 5-8: A letter from President Roosevelt to the AJC (American Jewish Congress) and its President, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, regarding the American government's position against antisemitism, March 1944; Pp. 9-15:...

File Number : 161

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : French, English, German