Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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

Language : German

Investigation against Richard Hartmann from the Referat IV B 4 in the RSHA in Berlin by the Berlin Court of Appeal (Kammergericht), 1968

Investigation against Richard Hartmann from the Referat IV B 4 in the RSHA in Berlin by the Berlin Court of Appeal (Kammergericht), 1968 (1 Js 1/65 (RSHA)) SS-Obersturmfuehrer Richard Hartmann (date of birth: 28.09.1910 in Landau/Pfalz) was a member of the "Zentralstelle fuer juedische Auswanderung" in the RSHA. Hartmann's work field included the distribution of documents for legal Jewish emigrants.In 1940 Hartmann and the whole department were transferred to Eichmann's Referat. Hartmann continued his work in the RSHA until he was transferred to Cannes (France) and later to the SD-Stelle Athens...

File Number : 63

Language : German

Documentation including reports, correspondence, memoranda and telegrams regarding the activities of the RSHA, the Eichmann office in Prague (Central Office for Jewish Emigration), the SS, Bruenn and Maerisch Ostrau Gestapo, and lists of detainees, released prisoners, Jews on the run and deportees, all from the Maerisch Ostrau district, 1939-1944 Documentation includes: Memorandum written by Gestapo officers in Maehrisch-Ostrau regarding negotiations and correspondence with the head office of the German railroad company Reichsbahn in Oppeln, Silesia concerning transport logistics,...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation by the German SS and Police Administration concerning deportations in the context of the "Generalplan Ost" (Master Plan East), and in particular, regarding the distribution of Jewish property looted during "Aktion Reinhard" (the Reinhard Operation), 1939-1944 Included in the file: 12/04/1943 - 03/08/1943 Various bills for equipment, issued by the SS and Police Administration in Lublin, (pp. 3-63), 09/06/1942 Note regarding the approval of a request for clothing by an SS officer, (page 64), 08/06/1942 Report regarding five collaborators (probably Polish), who arrested three...

File Number : 68

Type of Material : Correspondence, Orders, Administrative Documentation, Official Documentation, Lists, Reports

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Berger, Director of the Department for Polish and Stateless Affairs in the Berlin Palästinaamt (Palestine Office), regarding his meeting with Mr. Hennig in the German Foreign Ministry and their discussion regarding the destruction lists prepared by the Gestapo - Meeting with Mr. Hennig, the Acting Director of the Fremdenamt (Foreigners Police Department), a part of the Staatspolizei (State Police) in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, the morning after Kristallnacht to ask why the Palästinaamt (Palestine Office) was included on the Kristallnacht distruction list aimed at Jewish targets to be...

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Eva (Rosenberg) Becker regarding her experiences as an illegal Jew in Germany until her illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, and information concerning the first seven Sonderhachschara (Aliya Bet transports from Germany to Eretz Israel organized in cooperation with the Gestapo), 1939-1940 - Detention of the witness' husband in Dachau; release on condition that they make aliya to Eretz Israel; - Illegal stay in Berlin; preparations for the first illegal transport; preferential handling of her application because the witness is a pharmacist; better living conditions for her; most of the 500...

File Number : 302

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Ernst Einhorn regarding his professional work for Jewish war victims in both the old and the new Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), 1933-1945, and regarding the work of the RVJ, 1943-1945 Testimony of Ernst Einhorn, tax accountant, born circa 1899, who worked in the Department of Advocacy for Jewish War Victims in both the old and the new RVJ, regarding his professional work on behalf of Jewish war victims, 1933-1945, and the work of the RVJ, specifically between 1943 and 1945. - The Department of Advocacy for Jewish War Victims was...

File Number : 258

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Berlin under Nazi rule until his emigration in 1940

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences under Nazi rule in Berlin until his emigration in 1940 - Summons to the Berlin Gestapo, 1937; interrogation by Kuchmann, an officer responsible for Jewish Affairs; request that Rabbi Nussbaum resign from the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist Association (most likely the Zionist Association that split from the ZVfD in 1925); refusal of the witness to comply with the request; order to refrain from any activity in public outside of his...

File Number : 222

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Berthold Simonsohn, born in Bernburg, Germany, 1912, regarding his professional experience in the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) and his detention in Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau - Law studies, 1930-1934; first bar exam, 1934; no further studies permitted; - Life in Stettin, July 1938-November 1938; work at the provincial Stettin RVJ administrative branch supervised by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office) as the head of the social welfare department, managed at the time by Anne Hertz;...

File Number : 200

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

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