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Correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Lower Silesia, regarding current activities and other matters, 30/09/1932-28/10/1938 - Refusal to publish announcements by Jews; economic boycott; protective detention; Kampfbund; dismissal of Jewish clerks from their work; decrees against owners of market stalls (pp. 2043-2050); - "Calming" letter sent to local groups by the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV in Lower Silesia including quotes from various Nazi sources and regulations, speeches and publications by Göring,...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : German

Reports prepared by the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Hesse-Nassau, regarding the persecution of local Jews, 17/11/1934-28/10/1938 Reports regarding various incidents of persecution of Jews in the Hesse-Nassau area, including: - Ban on making purchases in Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who violate the ban; imposition of economic sanctions on violators of the ban; - Ban on the sale, supply or giving of all other services to Jews and Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Brochure, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Letters of petition regarding Jewish detainees from Vienna, 1938-1943

Letters of petition regarding Jewish detainees from Vienna, 1938-1943 Page 2: Letter from Richard Gross to Engel, Department Chief of the Vienna Jewish Community, with a petition that the Vienna Jewish Community intercede with the Vienna Gestapo to free his brother Attorney Dr. Leo Gross from detention, dated 08 June 1938; placement of the Vienna law-office of Leo Gross under Aryan administration; arrest and detention of Leo Gross, 15 March 1938; Pages 3-4: Letter from Luisa Reichmann in Ravensbrueck to Dr. Josef Loewenherz, director of the Vienna Jewish Community, with a petition for help in...

File Number : 296

Type of Material : Letter(s), Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), 07/04/1933-18/06/1935

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), 07/04/1933-18/06/1935 - Letter sent to Heinz Wittner, regarding a rumor concerning the dissolution of the [Centralverein - CV] association, 18/06/1935; - Newspaper clippings (the names of the newspapers are not indicated) that include anti-Jewish propaganda and a call not to buy from Jews (pp. 415-418); - Correspondence regarding the confiscation of a pair of black boots from a Jew, 1935 (pp. 427-431); - Correspondence regarding the Schutzhaft ("Protective Detention") legislation, 1934 (pp....

File Number : JM/28886

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : 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

Card catalogue containing a list of citizens (mostly Jews) who were forced to live in Lacaune and requested safe conduct passes from the police, 1940-1944

Card catalogue containing a list of citizens (mostly Jews) who were forced to live in Lacaune and requested safe conduct passes from the police, 1940-1944 The documents were stolen by a child in the Lacaune area, 1955-1965.

File Number : 505

Type of Material : Personal Card File, Official Documentation

Language : French

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 regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942

Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942 - Directive regarding the implementation of the Gesetz zur Verhuetung Erbkranken Nachwuschses (Law for Sterilization due to Hereditary Illnesses), including establishing the obligation for silence imposed on the physicians, as well as the clerks, who receive information regarding these surgeries in the context of their position, 28/06/1935 (page 1); - Directive by the Bavarian Office of the Interior,...

File Number : 284

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation including investigation material of the charge against Nazi dentist Viering, accused of the coordination of the murder of a Jew in Germany, from the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Viering, a dentist from Barmen, is accused of the coordination of the murder of his Jewish competitor, Dr. Alfred Meyer; Viering held senior membership in the local Nazi Party; Viering's belief that he received a "License to Kill" from the authorities following the Nazi Party's rise to power; he thought of Meyer as a rival; spreading of slander against Meyer by Viering; theft of valuables from Alfred Meyer's...

File Number : 263

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Persecuted Persons, Legal Documentation

Language : English

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

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