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The Record Group includes memoirs of Jewish leaders in various areas of Jewish life in Germany. Although there is much documentation regarding the fate of individual Holocaust victims, the main emphasis of the Record Group is on the different Jewish organizations. There is much information about local community organizations and the central Jewish organizations of German Jewry, including general, Zionist, ...

This collection includes circulars of the Jewish Committee in Kielce, correspondence (including correspondance with local Polish authorities), a list of Jews from Ostrowiec living in Bergen-Belsen, memebers of the Jewish committee in Munich (Germany), minutes of meetings, numerous documents related to the recovery of property lost during the war, in addition to medical certificates, statistical data ...

The fonds contains documents of the Benešov District Office, books, file material, accounting material, and associated agenda. Religious affairs of individual citizens inv. no. 525 (1853-1854); inv. no. 615 Jewish religious community (1903-1914); inv. no. 661 Jewish religious community; inv. no. 806 call no. VII/25 Jewish religious communities 1938-1941; Presidium files: inv. no. 54 Handing over weapons ...

Discusses the deportation of Jews from Belgium to concentration camps during World War II, focusing on a comparison with the procedures in France. In France the first deportations took place already in spring 1942, urged by the military authorities in Paris who wished that reprisals for the activities of the French resistance should occur in the East rather than in France. In Belgium, the authorities ...

An account of the experiences of the "Mischlinge" (half-Jews, and Jews in mixed marriages) under the Nazi regime, in Germany and in occupied Europe. Many of them were able to survive the Holocaust as a result of loopholes in the racial laws. Ch. 9 (pp. 185-206) emphasizes the phenomenon of "antisemitic Jews" who justified or assisted Nazi persecution of their own people - e.g. the Verband Nationaldeutscher ...

Inventory 1, files 1, 2, 12, 13, 22. Documents on the use of Jewish labor at the objects related to Hitler's headquarter in the suburbs of Vinnitsa, the eviction of the local population, in particular Jewish, from the city districts, where later the German military and occupation agencies were stationed. Inventory 1, files 12, 18, 22. Documents on activity of the passport registration department of ...

O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960
 
 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938.
 
 Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Excerpts from the diaries of Lotte Warburg, daughter of a converted Jew and sister of Nobel prize winner Otto Warburg. As a half-Jew married to an Aryan, she was not affected by most of the Nazi racial laws; but because of the increasing coldness of her social circle in Bayreuth and her detestation of the Nazis, in 1937 she left with her family for the Netherlands. Her diaries include descriptions ...

Discusses diverse versions of the "Madagascar plan", proposed by adherents of racial antisemitism, which developed in the second half of the 19th century. In 1885 the idea of settling all Jews on the island of Madagascar arose. This notion of a "territorial" final solution of the "Jewish question" was supported by antisemites in many European countries and propagated until the Nazi period. The plan ...