The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994

Documentation of K. F. Mannheimer, a lawyer for claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors in Germany and in Amsterdam; documentation dated, 1897-1978
 
 K. F. Mannheimer, a Jewish lawyer, was born in Germany in 1897; he was married to B. A. E. Weisel in a mixed marriage; following the Nazi rise to power, Mannheimer was forced to cease his work as a lawyer in Berlin; he emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife, who was also a lawyer, in 1936; in the Netherlands, Mannheimer served as a lawyer, prosecutor, translator and advisor to students, until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands which put an end to his career; revocation of the German citizenship of Mannheimer; Mannheimer was sent [deported] to Westerbork camp in 1943; his release because of his mixed marriage; his life in hiding in his home until the end of the war; most of Mannheimer's family members perished during the Holocaust; special legislation in the Netherlands enabled Mannheimer and another 19 refugees to receive Dutch citizenship; he returned to work as a lawyer in Amsterdam in 1949; he worked now on behalf of Holocaust survivors and their inheritors, as an expert in claims for compensation from the Germans, in the context of Wiedergutmachung; following Mannheimer's death in 1974, Elfriede Mannheimer-Weisel [his widow] continued his legal work; following the death of Elfriede Mannheimer-Weisel in 1994, all of the documents were handed over to NIOD;
 
 The collection includes personal documentation of the Mannheimer couple from 1897-1944, and letters from the Joodsche Raad van Amsterdam; text of the Special Immigration Law, 1949; most of the collection pertains to compensation claims files from 1949-1978, including:
 
 Correspondence with lawyers and with the Entschädigungsamt in Berlin;
 
 Questionnaires of the Entschädigungsamt, regarding Wiedergutmachung;
 
 Questionnaires of the Centraal Afwikkelingsbureau Duitse Schade Uitkeringen and JOKOS in Amsterdam, regarding household contents confiscated from Jews in the Netherlands;
 
 Testimonies regarding the persecution of Jews;
 
 Medical reports regarding damage to the health of persecuted people;
 
 Testimonies regarding the marking of Jews;
 
 Financial reports and inventory lists attesting to confiscated Jewish property;
 
 Legal documentation, protocols and verdicts of the Regierungspraesident in Germany after the war, regarding compensation;
 
 Confirmations by the Nederlandse Rode Kruis (Dutch Red Cross), regarding the persecution of Jews and regarding those who perished;
 
 Confirmations by the Population Registry, regarding emigration;
 
 Confirmations by Jewish religious institutions, regarding [the] Jewish origin of persecuted people;
 
 Legal documentation regarding inheritances and regarding claims for compensation of Holocaust survivors in the Netherlands who possessed German citizenship or who resided in Germany in the past;
 
 Newspaper clippings from the postwar period, regarding compensation and appeals to the Bundesversicherungsanstalt concerning insurance monies of Holocaust survivors who emigrated from Germany to the Netherlands.