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Legal documentation from East German Stasi files regarding the investigation and indictment of Henry Schmidt, Director of Department IIB, which was responsible for the Gestapo Judenreferat (Department for Jewish Affairs) in Dresden, 1986-1987 Volume I (File 1, Part 1, pp. 1-265): - Interrogations of Henry Schmidt, Director of Department IIB in the Dresden Gestapo, regarding the establishment of a concentration camp for Jews in the suburbs of Dresden; deportation of the Jews to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; abuse of Jewish inmates from 1942; his service as commander of the Dukla Gestapo at the beginning of...

File Number : 3095

Type of Material : Deportation List, List of Persecuted Persons, Record of Murdered Persons, Personal Documents, Record of Deportees, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors, List of Deportees, List of Theresienstadt Camp Inmates, Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Testimony, Statistical Data, Curriculum Vitae (cv), List of Murdered Jews, Investigation Report, Indictment, Sentence, Death Certificate, Names of Perpetrators

Language : German

Memoirs of Dr. Oscar Teller, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding Adolf Eichmann, head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, 1938-1939

Memoirs of Dr. Oscar Teller, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding Adolf Eichmann, head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, 1938-1939 Life in Austria including Teller's dealings with Eichmann, head of the Zentralstelle für jüdische (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) (pp. 2-9), August 1938-30 January 1939; - Three letters of recommendation for Oscar Teller (pp.10-12), 31 January 1939-26 April 1939.

File Number : 984

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : English, German

Testimonies of Dr. Erwin Lichtenstein, former counsel of the Synagogengemeinde (Jewish community) of Danzig, regarding the final year of community life in Danzig and the emigration of almost the entire community, 1933-1939 - Danzig's status as a free town according to international law; the makeup of the Jews of Danzig; - Bare majority for the Nazis in the elections in Danzig , May 1933; coalition of the Nazi Party, the German National People's Party and the Center party; on a governmental level, no measures against Jews, but increasing pressure against the Jews by the National Socialists; gradually...

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Ball, Berlin, regarding his detention in a Gestapo cellar, March 1933

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Ball, Berlin, regarding his detention in a Gestapo cellar, March 1933 - Nazi rise to power; first arrests of opponents and Jews, January 1933; abduction and shooting of six Jews, initiated by Heines, the Gauleiter of Silesia; first emigrations with the possibility of shipping property on payment of a large Reichsfluchtsteuer (tax for leaving the country); - Arrest of Dr. Ball by SA men; transfer to barracks close to the Tempelhof station; interrogation by SA men, including mockery, death threats, abuse, 30 March 1933; imprisonment in a dark room in the cellar of the barracks...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Ernst Salomon Herzfeld, born in Graetz, Poznan, 1875, regarding the founding and development of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews), the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens (CV-Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) and other Jewish organizations, 1933-1938 - Activities of the different Jewish organizations after the takeover by the Nazis in order to protect their assets; - House search of the CV by the SA and temporary arrests, 01 March 1933; - Increasing excesses of the SA; outrages against Jewish...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

To be translated

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Jews, Circular, Official Documentation, Laws and Decrees

Language : German

Documentation of the office of the Prosecutor in Muenster (Westphalia region)

Documentation of the office of the Prosecutor in Muenster (Westphalia region) The sub-collection includes one file, titled: Rechtsanwalt Julius Cohn und Frau, früher Münster, später Paris, wegen Vergehens gegen das Reichsfluchtsteuergesetz, 1933-1950 (Urteil 1950 aufgehoben)

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Collection of drafts, notes and other papers related to the Jewish community of Nuremberg, part two, 1112-1970

Drafts of articles and notes containing bibliographical and archival references related to the Jewish community of Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, 1112-1970 Undated original copies of the prewar journal "Das Juedische Echo", number 6 (complete) and number 34 (incomplete). Copy of a letter dated 30/03/1928 addressed to the Association of Bavarian Jewish Communities in Munich regarding the inclusion of the Ottensoos Jewish community into the Lauf community. Copy of a letter dated 21/08/1930 addressed to the Ottensoos Jewish community, signed by lawyers Bergold, Richard Jung and Dr. Fr....

File Number : 228

Type of Material : Letter(s), Draft, Journal, Excerpt(s), Invitation, Correspondence, Note, Statistics

Language : Hebrew, German

Collection of drafts, notes and other papers related to the Jewish community of Nuremberg, part one, 1112-1958

Drafts of articles and notes containing bibliographical and archival references related to the Jewish community of Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, 1112-1958 Brochure titled "Nurembeg Mahzor and two Passover Haggadot", The Schocken Library Jerusalem, Spring Exhibition 1958.

File Number : 227

Type of Material : Note, Draft, Statistics, Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew, German