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O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany, January-April 1947

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany, January-April 1947 Postwar documentation regarding the restitution of Jewish cultural property looted during World War II; in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. Documentation regarding the incorporation of the Jewish Restitution Commission.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Document(s), Correspondence, Telegram, Draft, Letter(s), Official Documentation

File Collection: Correspondence of Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwalb regarding reparations

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter

Personal documentation regarding Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and his relatives, 1933-1962

Personal documentation regarding Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and his relatives, 1933-1962 - Registration of Rudolf Schwab's business in Brussels, 12/10/1933 (p. 19); - Genealogy of the Schwab family (pp. 24-28); - Certificate awarded to Alexander Schwab, 21/02/1936, for his service as a German Army soldier in combat during World War I (p. 33); - Certificate of honorary service awarded to Alexander Schwab by the "German Association of Jewish Combatants", including notification that Schwab intends to emigrate to Shanghai, 01/08/1939 (p. 40); - Letter of confirmation by the council of the...

File Number : 1589.1

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Correspondence between Rudolf Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, with information regarding the fate of his father, Max Schwab, 1961-1972

Correspondence between Rudolf Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, with information regarding the fate of his father, Max Schwab, 1961-1972 Page 80: - Letter from Rudolf Schwab to his cousin Edgar Tuteur in New York with the information that Rudolf's father, Max Schwab, perished in the Oranienburg concentration camp 20 years earlier; that the Nazi authorities in Hanau refused at that time to bury the remains (ashes) of his father; and that therefore his father's ashes were buried in Frankfurt am Main, 12 May 1962; Page 87: - Letter from Rudolf Schwab to his aunt Rosa...

File Number : 1589.6

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1953-1960

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1953-1960 Page 74: - Letter from Alex Schwab (an uncle) with the information that he was interned in Buchenwald for four weeks, and that the relevant discharge papers were later taken from him by the Hanau Gestapo, 31 October 1954; Page 159: - Letter from the German Consulate General in Marseille, France to Rudolf Schwab regarding inheritance matters of the Tuteur family, 03 July 1956, including the following information: 1. Rudolf Schwab's brother Hans Ferdinand Samuel Schwab, Hanau resident, has been...

File Number : 1589.5

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952 Page 18: - Letter from Rudolf Schwab with the information that his relatives, including his mother, grandmother, brother Hans and aunt Alice with her family, were deported to Poland in 1941, 23 February 1946; Page 57: - Letter from Edgar Tuteur (a cousin) in New York, with the information that his parents, his younger sister and most of his close relatives were murdered by the Germans, but that his brother Harald survived and emigrated to Buenos Aires, 15 June 1946; Page 60: - Letter from...

File Number : 1589.4

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Documentation of Omnia DRT and the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC in the Netherlands, regarding Jewish businesses, 1940-1951 (arranged according to the name of the business)

Documentation of Omnia DRT and the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC in the Netherlands, regarding Jewish businesses, 1940-1951 (arranged according to the name of the business) The source of the collection are the Archives of the Dutch branch of Omnia and the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhandgesellschaft - DRT and the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle Archive, and which accompanies Collection 94; the collection was rearranged in five card files by NIOD during the postwar period, and with the help of the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC; the SEC had the responsibility in 1949 for the estimation of the damages caused to Jews due...

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Reports, Correspondence, Document, Names, Card File

Language : Dutch, German

O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany Max Lowenthal was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888; a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney and a lifelong public servant; he served as an advisor and personal friend of President Harry S. Truman. In 1946, General Lucius D. Clay, the Deputy Governor of the US Military Government in Occupied Germany, asked various representatives of American Jewish organizations to suggest an advisor who could help Clay in drafting legislation...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English

Testimony of Holocaust survivor Rudolf Max Josef Hirsch, Berlin, 1998

Testimony of Holocaust survivor Rudolf Max Josef Hirsch, Berlin, 1998 Letter of testimony by Rudolf Max Josef Hirsch, Holocaust survivor, addressed to Yad Vashem, 11 May 1998: - Born in Berlin, 1913, and raised there; death of parents at a young age, 1920s; - At the age of 19, joins the Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus (Combat League against Fascism), a subsidiary organization of the German Communist Party, 1932; - Marriage to Edith Frick, a half-Jewess, 1933; - Birth of daughter Ruth, 1935; birth of son Guenter Gustav, 1937; wife and children are members of the Jewish community;. -...

File Number : 5369

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card, Declaration, Memoirs, Document, Certification, Letter(s), Passport, Official Documentation, Correspondence, Questionnaire

Language : German

Testimony of Lilo (Kettner) Ticho, regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, capture and deportation to Westerbork, escape, life in hiding on a farm in a Dutch village, until liberation, 1938-1944

Testimony of Lilo (Kettner) Ticho, regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, capture and deportation to Westerbork, escape, life in hiding on a farm in a Dutch village until liberation, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, March 1957: - From Vienna to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport, organized by the Jewish community in Vienna, December 1938; - Joins a Youth Aliyah training camp in Loodsrecht; late 1941-summer 1942, - Work as an infant's day nurse for a family in Amsterdam; from July...

File Number : 5151

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Names, Questionnaire

Language : Hebrew, German

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