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The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was created after the Nazis came to power in 1933. It presided over radio, the press, and cultural institutions, and controlled the sphere of art. Every department of the ministry engaged in antisemitic propaganda. Works by Jewish authors were banned and destroyed. Antisemitic ideas were espoused in radio broadcasts and in leaflets and pamphlets ...

Describes the organization and functions of the sections of the Gestapo concerned with Jewish matters in the Düsseldorf district - i.e. in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Wuppertal, and smaller towns. Most of the officials were policemen who were chosen on the basis of vocational competence rather than political orientation; their methods included intimidation, but hardly ...

I>Jan T. Gross: Introduction. - Natalia Aleksiun: Christian Corpses for Christians! Dissecting the Anti-Semitism behind the Cadaver Affair of the Second Polish Republic. - Krzysztof Persak: Jedwabne before the Court. Poland's Justice and the Jedwabne Massacre. - Investigations and Court Proceedings, 1947-1974. - Barbara Engelking: Murdering and Denouncing Jews in the Polish Countryside, 1942-1945. ...

Eugen Wolf (born in Rhein-Hesse in 1893) initially trained as a banker in Mainz and worked for the Dresdner Bank in Dresden, Saxony, for two years. After the death of his father he took over the family farming and wine-growing business. He married Johanna Mann (born 1895) from Guntersblum in 1919 and continued the farming business of his father-in-law. They had one daughter, Marianne, who was born ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1915 in Vilna. Yones was active in the Bund. With the Soviet occupation of Vilna, he fled in order to escape arrest. (After the Nazi occupation in 1941, his father and two brothers were murdered by the Nazis.) Yones managed to reach Lvov, where he experienced a pogrom incited by the Germans in July 1941, during which several thousand Jews were murdered. Yones was one of only ...

This collection consists of letters received by Jakob Wühl in London from members of his family, German speaking Jews of Polish nationality, who lived in Leipzig. Also included is correspondence between other family members. The family became victims of the 'Polen-Aktion', a series of expulsions and deportations in the earlier stages of the Holocaust. These events precede the November pogroms and never ...

Chronicles the history of the Final Solution in Eastern Galicia (Western Ukraine): pogroms by Ukrainians in June 1941; massacres by the Einsatzgruppen throughout 1941; deportations to Bełżec in March-December 1942; more massacres after Belzec closed down. In the interim, Jews were partially ghettoized; those who were fit were sent to forced labor camps, where most died. Medical personnel and workers ...

For the sake of completeness, this description contains information on the various personal papers, separate archival documents and other material from the “Document collection” of the Wiener Library, too limited in extent to describe separately. The collection constitutes the largest archive of personal papers relative to Jewish refugees from occupied Europe. By searching the database on keywords ...

Memoirs of a German Jew, born in 1912 in Kiel, who studied music in Bonn and Köln. With the rise of the Nazi regime, he increased his activity in Hehalutz and was offered a position as a flute-player in the new Israeli Philharmonic orchestra, which permitted him to obtain a certificate for emigration to Palestine; he emigrated in 1936. His father, Otto Toeplitz, was dimissed from his position as professor ...

The introduction to the first part of this volume, "Sachsenhausen - Stammlager" (pp. 17-72), by Hermann Kaienburg, describes the construction and functioning of the camp at Sachsenhausen. In 1937, ca. 50 Jews were imprisoned there, in 1938 - 900, and during the "Kristallnacht" pogrom 6,000. Those who survived were released after several weeks or months. At the end of 1939, ca. 1,300 prisoners were ...