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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

Records of the National Union of German Jews (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) regarding reports relating to the transfer of funds, a list of birth, marriage and death certificates, regulations regarding confiscation of property, etc., 1942 - the settlement of the Jews expelled from Cologne in Fort V and a barracks camp in Kaunas, Lithuania; - reports on the transfer of funds to German banks; - list of birth, marriage and death certificates of Jews; - Regulations regarding the confiscation of the property of Jews; - report on the completion of the collection of donations to the National Fund...

File Number : 285

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of the Jews in Germany) regarding the financing of social welfare institutions, confiscation of Jewish property, intermarriage, and other matters, July-December 1941 Correspondence of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, regarding manpower and the salaries of the organization's office workers; confiscation of Jewish property in Breslau; transfer of Jews to forced labor; instructions regarding the means of dealing with the Jewish spouses of intermarried couples; restrictions on the financing of old age homes and...

File Number : 284

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of the Jews in Germany), regarding welfare matters and social welfare help to the Jewish communities, 1940-1941

Correspondence of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of the Jews in Germany), regarding welfare matters and social welfare help to the Jewish communities, 1940-1941 - Letter from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, regarding the employment of Jews in various jobs in Chemnitz; - Letter from Israel Arthur Lilienthal (the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland representative in Germany) to the Reichsarbeitsminister, including a request to raise the salaries of the association's clerks, and of the Jews in Germany and workers in the Jewish communities; -...

File Number : 283

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Benno Cohn, born in Germany, 1894, regarding the forced delegation of leading German Jewish representatives sent to Adolf Eichmann, March 1939

Testimony of Benno Cohn, born in Germany, 1894, regarding the forced delegation of leading German Jewish representatives sent to Adolf Eichmann, March 1939 - Testimony of Benno Cohn regarding the forced delegation of leading German Jewish representatives sent to Adolf Eichmann, March 1939 (pp. 3-6), 02 April 1958. In the file: Yad Vashem file card regarding the testimony of Benno Cohn (p. 2).

File Number : 215

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, 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

Testimony of Dr. Kurt Ball, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding the conflict between the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews) and the Jewish community in Berlin, 1937 - Attack mounted by Georg Kareski, a member of the Berlin Jewish community executive board, against the Reichsvertretung management for alleged waste of money; establishment of a financial comptroller committee headed by Georg Kareski; - Attempt by the Gestapo to institute Kareski as the main director of the Reichsvertretung; refusal of Leo Baeck to accept the appointment; discovery of...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Heinrich Wolffheim regarding his experiences in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany, 1933-1943

Testimony of Dr. Heinrich Wolffheim regarding his experiences in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany, 1933-1943 - Work of Dr. Wolffheim as the fiduciary doctor [physician] of the main insurance office, until July 1933; - Service as the director of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) district office in Allenstein from November 1940; - First arrest on the charge of membership in a Bnai Brith lodge, April 1933; alleged discovery of Communist publications and cartridges [apparently ink cartridges] on the lodge premises; release due to the...

File Number : 55

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

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

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