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Testimony of Georg Weissmann regarding the enforcement of the minority rights of the Upper Silesian Jews, 1933-1937

Testimony of Georg Weissmann regarding the enforcement of the minority rights of the Upper Silesian Jews, 1933-1937 The Bernheim Petition was based on the German-Polish agreement regarding eastern Silesia (the Geneva Agreement), in which the protection of minorities was guaranteed, 15 May 1922. Pages 2-60; copy of testimony pp. 61-119: - Complaint filed by Franz Bernheim, who had been dismissed from his position as a clerk on 04 January 1933, as a result of the boycott; filing of the Bernheim Petition by the Comite des Delegation Juive (Committee of Jewish Delegations) to the League of Nations in...

File Number : 21

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Siegfried Ostrowski, born in 1887, regarding the situation of the Jewish medical community in Berlin under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939, 1933-1939

Testimony of Dr. Siegfried Ostrowski, born in 1887, regarding the situation of the Jewish medical community in Berlin under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939 Situation of the Jewish medical community in Berlin before 1933; propaganda against Jewish physicians after the Nazi rise to power, 30 January- 31 March 1933; first anti-Jewish boycott day; subsequent elimination of Jews from health care; dismissal of Jewish physicians; denunciations; arrests; accusations, 01 April-June 1933; attempts to contact medical communities abroad in order to find out about the possibilities of emigration, and subsequent arrests on...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Brochure, Testimony, Correspondence, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

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