The Kulka-Hildesheimer Collection: Documentation of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1932-1938
Extent and Medium
1917 Files
Archival History
In the collection there are copies of documentation gathered by Otto Dov Kulka and Azriel Hildesheimer as part of their comprehensive research regarding the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden (Reich Representation of German Jews), the central organization of German Jews during the Nazi period, in their attempt to reconstruct the organization archives.
Scope and Content
Included in the documentation is a huge number of documents regarding the organization starting from the preparation stages for its establishment and through its dissolution, protocols of meetings held by administrative bodies and organization committees, documents and letters, letters received by the organization from Jewish communities and organizations and documents about the Reich Representation, clippings from the Jewish press concerning the organization, documents of Jewish communities regarding implementation of the guidelines of the Reich Representation and more.
Existence and Location of Originals
The original documantation exissts in several archives in Germany
Existence and Location of Copies
YV archives
Publication Note
Hildesheimer, Esriel. The Central Organization of the German Jews in the Years 1933–1945: Its legal and political status and its position in the Jewish community, Jerusalem: 1982. Kulka, Otto Dov. “The Reichsvereinigung of the Jews in Germany.” In Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe 1933–1945, Proceedings of the Third Yad Vashem International Conference. Jerusalem: April 1977, 45–58 Hildesheimer, Esriel. “The Central Organisation of Jews in the Third Reich and its Archives.” In Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute, 34 (1989): 187–201. Meyer, Beate. “Gratwanderung zwischen Verantwortung und Verstrickung: Die Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland und die Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin 1938–1945.” In Meyer, Beate and Hermann Simon. Juden in Berlin 1938 bis 1945.
Archivist Note
JL according to the RG description in the YV system
Dates of Descriptions
2012-05-29