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  1. Third circular report of the International Tracing Service at Arolsen on the establishment, nature and purpose of DP-Documentation

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This Circular report by the ITS is regarding the establishment, nature and purpose of DP-cards for official and private agencies that are in co-operation with the ITS. The purpose is to evaluate the DP-Camp documentation.

  2. The Grünspan Case

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report about the 'Grünspan case', written by Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels in 1938 and printed by 'M. Müller & Sohn K.G., Berlin S.W.68'. The Günspan case is concerning Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (German: Hermann Grünspan), who was a Polish-Jewish refugee, born in Germany. His assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on the 7th of November 1938 in Paris was his way to take revenge for his Jewish brethren in Germany. After the murder of the secretary of legation, the German nation took up retaliatory measures against Jews in Germany, as Goebbels writes. R...

  3. Monthly Report for the Month of September, 1953

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The business report provides an overview of the work and figures of the ITS in 9/1953 regarding the Case Work (inquiries, requests for death certificates, certificates of residence or historical and statistical data), Archive (e.g. Concentration Camp and civil administration records) and Administration (supplies and utilities, transport, communication, travel, budget and finance and personnel).

  4. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains five circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) between August and December 1969. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1633, no. 1632, no. 1631, no. 1627, and no. 1626. They mainly deal with recent court judgements made by the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof) on questions of restitution after Nazi persecution, especially regarding newly established juridical regulations and proceedings for claims within the Federal law for restitution („Bundesentschädigungsgesetz”), and regarding pensions, professional damages and dama...

  5. [ITS, Translated correspondences between a Polish mother and her daughter who is located in a foster home in Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a collection of letters between a mother in Poland and her daughter, living with German foster parents, initiated by the Lebensborn project of Heinrich Himmler. The letters, translated by the ITS from German / Polish to English show, how the 8 yr old girl changed in the course of her "Germanization". In the beginning the girl is writing in Polish but after changing her Polish name to a German one she starts identifiying with her German foster parents and is also writing to her mother in German. The mother wants her daughter back but the daughter, now with a German name and...

  6. Die Territorial-Bewegung

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of Max Apt's paper on the history of the Diaspora. “The Territorial movement” (Israel Zangwill) believed in the establishment of a Jewish state in a territory other than Palestine to avoid conflict with the Arab population. The file lists abstracts from the Geneva conference of the International Labor Office from March 7, 1938 by South American government representatives. A letter to Dr. Apt from the American embassy is included. The next chapter deals with the “Evian conference” which tried to find a solution to the refugee crisis. The chapter includes extensive ...

  7. Child- Tracing

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two letters from the Chief Representative of Central Tracing Bureau, Berlin to the Red Cross Netherlands, Berlin. In the first short letter the CTB asks to forward documents (21.10.1947). In the second one the CTB is requesting help from the RCN in order to find out what happened to a working camp in Finow, Brandenburg /Germany in which 60 Ukrainians boys were held until 1945. Furthermore, they seek help to investigate a children's hospital in Dresden (21.10.1947).

  8. [Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Celle displaced persons camp]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains documents regarding the situation in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen after its liberation in May 1945. The first documents are two typewritten reports on the living conditions (health, sanitation, food, clothing, housing) in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen after the liberation. The reports were written in English by members of the British Army in May 1945. Furthermore, the file contains the camp regulations written in German and Polish for the time after the liberation. Unfortunately, the other documents are only barely readable if not unreadable at all, the scri...

  9. Jugoslavenski zbjeg u Egiptu

    • Yugoslav Refugees to Egypt

    Fleeing the German offensive in late 1943 and early 1944, when Germany occupied Dalmatia, a large number of civilians (over 30,000), fearing reprisals, took refuge on the island of Vis. As Vis already housed the General Staff of the Partisan army and the allied British army, it was not able to accept and feed so many people. Therefore it was decided that the non-combatant population of the island be evacuated as refugees to South Italy, first to Bari and then to Taranto. Refugees mostly consisted of people from the Makarska area (around 6000), as well as from Vodice, the islands of Hvar, Vi...

  10. Correspondence regarding Dokumentenwerk - with Hellmann, Henry

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Containing memos, status reports, and minutes of recurring work meetings almost exclusively the correspondence illustrates H. Hellmann’s research activities for the Dokumentenwerk project. This includes information about source materials, work progress, and results. The latter were discussed within The Wiener Library as well as with the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).

  11. Correspondence with Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence - with AJR chairman Werner Rosenstock almost exclusively - comprises a wide variety of issues including amongst others: an AJR Information editorial on the work of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation; an obituary on Ludwig Foerder; publishing the memoirs of Gustav Schröder, captain of the MS St. Louis, in England; the visit of The Wiener Library by a group of young German unionists; and an appreciation of Leonard Montefiore in the AJR Information on occasion of his 70th birthday.

  12. Correspondence with Bamberg, Karl

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents Bamberg’s involvement in The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project by establishing contact with survivors in Belgium and encouraging them to write down their experiences. Furthermore, the release of former SS-physician Carl Clauberg from Soviet war imprisonment is discussed. Referring to the case of former concentration camp doctor Hans Eisele the idea of compiling a list all SS-physicians and their post-war fates is also briefly touched.

  13. Papers of Samuel Krauss

    Correspondence, 1891-1948, including correspondence with publishers and booksellers, 1892-1936, and correspondence about student theses; diaries, 1941-7; letters of condolence on Krauss' death, obituaries, seventieth and eightieth birthday papers, family papers and photographs, notes and greetings. Manuscripts and typescripts of works by Krauss, including material on Talmudic archaeology and history, the synagogues of Bratislava, Jewish liturgy up to the close of the Mishnah, Christian legislation on the synagogues and material, not all by Krauss, relating to the Jews and Byzantium.

  14. Samuel Schalkowsky papers

    1. Samuel Schalkowsky collection

    Contains three black-and-white photographs, one letter, and two legal documents pertaining to Samuel Schalkowsky's post-World War II experiences as a displaced person following his internment in the Magdeburg Brabag concentration camp. The letter requests that Allied military personnel grant Mr. Schalkowsky any needed assistance in his attempts to locate his sister.

  15. Aus der Emigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    “Aus der Emigration” (From the exile), account by Dr. Curt Rosenberg for the years of 1939 to 1948 about his emigration from Germany, life in Glasgow as a refugee, internment in Bury and the Isle of Man. He describes in vivid detail the peaceful life in Glasgow, the interesting characters among the refugees in the internment camps in Bury and Camp Hutchinson, and the variety of cultural activities organized by the inmates. Later on he returns to Glasgow, where he describes the strained relationship between the established Jews and the refugees. It includes a program of cultural activities f...

  16. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of P. L., 24 year old from Krakow. He tells how in the first few days of the war the city government and police evacuated, and he left on a train with other evacuees to Tarnów and then to Jarosław and to Wyszkow where he remained for three weeks until the Russians left. Protocol No. 154 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland.

  17. Monthly Report for the month of December, 1951 and Annual Report for the year 1951

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This Report is a summary of the work accomplished by the ITS. Among corporative details the report also mentions a cooperation with the German "Wiedergutmachungs-" authorities (Idemnification authorities) and the visit of two experts from the "Institut für Zeitgeschichte" which conducted research with the files of the ITS.

  18. [Summary of the work of the ITS Child Search Branch]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an overview of the yearly ITS report of the year 1948. Furthermore it contains correspondences between a polish mother and her child, showing successful Germanization. Also, reports of the Nazi organisations involved in the Germanizing process and an outline of the structure and practices of Lebensborn for guidance in child search of the ITS.

  19. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. L., 18 year old yeshiva student from Koden, a small town by Biala Podlaska of 100 Jewish families. He tells how most of the Jewish population left Koden for Brisk before the Germans entered it, while the Christian population remained. He continued his studies in the Brisk yeshiva. Protocol No. 151 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.

  20. Monthly Report for the month of December, 1952

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The monthly report shows a high acquisition of files for the ITS, namely 7.200 files from the Concentration camp Natzweiler. Furthermore, it mentions a list from the Israeli Consul covering the mass immigration of Jews from Germany to Israel from 1948-1950, reports about the administration and budget, data regarding the personnel, international relations and the relations of the ITS to German federal and land authorities.