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Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947

Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947 The collection concerns materials from the division of the post-WWII Police force of Berlin (for materials regarding the Berlin Police under the Nazi regime, see collection 4423357 in "Sapir"). Following the order given by the Soviet City Commander of Berlin, the city's Police headquarters were re-established on 20 May 1945. Based on an order given by the Allied headquarters, special Police offices were set up in...

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : German

Documentation from the Leo Baeck Institute

Documentation from the Leo Baeck Institute - Permit from the Berlin Police confirming the confiscation of an issue of the journal, "Der Morgen", by order of the Gestapo, on account of the article's statement that Jews made cultural contributions to Germany; the permit was sent to Philo Verlag, the magazine's publisher, 15 July 1935; - Typed manuscript titled, "Das Leben Zurueckgegeben" ("Receiving a New Lease on Life"), by Nahum Israel ? [family name is unclear] tells the story of a Jew called Alexander who was released from a concentration camp.

File Number : 442

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation, Photograph

Language : German

Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Police District of...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Ghetto and the deportation from Berlin to Lodz, 1945 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also memoirs of a Jewish survivor from Berlin and material of other proceedings against Nazi Criminals in the years since 1956. The recording of these material here was in order to substantiate the evidences against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle. The file includes...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Testimony, Diaries and Memoirs, Reports, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Berlin Jews to extermination camps: Statements by former employees of the of the RSHA "Jewish Department" (Judenreferat) and of Gestapo offices in Berlin, Cologne and Duesseldorf, especially regarding the extent of knowledge of Gestapo employees regarding the fate of the deported Jews; testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors, 1967-1968

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the of the RSHA "Jewish Department" (Judenreferat) - RSHA IV B 4 and of Gestapo offices in Berlin, Cologne and Duesseldorf, especially regarding the extent of knowledge of Gestapoleitstelle former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle regarding the fate of the deported Berlin Jews; testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors, 1967 - 1968 Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Berlin Jews to...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Examination of witnesses regarding the activity of the Gestapo "Jewish department" - RSHA IV-B-4; Testimonies regarding Auschwitz from previous West German trials, 1952 - 1967

Examination of witnesses regarding the activity of the Gestapo "Jewish department" - RSHA IV-B-4; Testimonies regarding Auschwitz from previous West German trials, 1952 - 1967 Note: This file includes material of the proceedings against other Nazi criminals in the years since 1952, especially in the periode since 1959ff, as well as the proceedings against "former employees of RSHA IV-B-4 ("Judenreferat") for assistance of murder", 1967. -- The central question of the pre-trial hearings of former RSHA IV-B-4-employees concerned the extent of knowledge on the systematic murder of the Jews. The file includes...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors regarding former executives of the Berlin Gestapo; Testimony by Lothar Weirauch, who took part at the Wannsee Conference; Testimonies by Jewish survivors regarding the "Fabrikaktion", 1955 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former Gestapoleitstellen-employees, but also of other proceedings against Nazi Criminals in the years 1955f and 1962. The file includes i.A.: - Letter, dated on the 22/02/1968, of the Jewish Community to the public prosecutor's office. The letter includes a list with names and adresses of Jewish...

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Letter, List of Names, Testimony

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Jews to extermination camps: Examination of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo especially regarding the "protective custody" (Schutzhaft) measures against the Jews; Testimonies by Jewish survivors, 1954 - 1968; Trial by a German court against the Jewish collaborator Guenther Abrahamsohn accused of having worked for the Gestapo, 1952

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of Gestapoleitstelle (Gestapo Regional Headquarters) Berlin, especially regarding the "protective custody" (Schutzhaft) measures against the Jews; Testimonies by Jewish survivors, 1954 - 1968; Trial by a German court against the Jewish collaborator Guenther Abrahamsohn on the charge of having worked for the Gestapo, 1952 Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Jews to extermination camps:...

File Number : 48

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Testimonies by Jewish survivors; Research regarding Sobibor; Notes regarding the state of health of the accused Bovensiepen and Stock, 1968 Note: This file does not include only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also a research on the CC Sobibor. The recording of this material here was in order to substantiate the evidences against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle. The file includes i.A.: - Letters of...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Testimony, Reports, Letter

Language : German

Decisions by West German courts regarding employees of the Gestapo in Stuttgart and a Jewish collaborator from Berlin, 1956 - 1958; Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Gestapostelle in Dortmund and the "protective custody" in Sachsenhausen, 1965 - 1968 Note: The file does not include material concerning the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but of other proceedings against Nazi war criminals since 1956.The recording of the material in this file was done for the purpose of the substantiation of the evidence against former Gestapoleitstelle...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Testimony, Document(s)

Language : German

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