The Alfred Wiener documents collection

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004700840304146
• English
• 1979
• 1 electronic resource (170 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004700920304146
• English
• 1940-1944
• 1 electronic resource (150)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains scans of several instructions given to the leaders of immigrants labor camps in Switzerland. The instructions mostly relate to the rules of daily life and the working conditions for the camps staff and leaders. Further instructions relate to the bureaucracy which was necessary to provide smooth processes in the camps. The orders were given out by the Central Labor Camp Administration in Zurich(Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager, Zürich) and were mostly signed by the head of the Central Administration Otto Zaugg.

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004701510304146
• English
• 1 electronic resource (2 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The text is a writing about the "Judenfrage" ("Jewish question") stating that arrogance of a gifted intellect is often restricted by a border of historical or metaphysical justice. That's what the punitive God did to German Jewry which was partly stripped off its means of existence. Jews in Germany became outcasts and began to feel the difference between Germans and Jews. This reaction of the German folk instinct is not unfair, but led by a higher justice. Who is arrogant needs to suffer, who is intelligent must serve others, who is superiour must pay for it painfully. From 1918 on the inte...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004703590304146
• English
• 1938
• 1 electronic resource (26 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

Informational brochure of the German Propaganda Headquarter of the NSDAP about the economical and social situation of Austria from Mai 1938. The brochure covers the following topics: Size of Austria and Great Germany, population of Austria and Great Germany, political division of Austria, land utilization, employment of the population, agriculture, crop, feeding stuff, livestock farming, dairy farming, viticulture, forestry, mining of metals, minerals, coal, natural resources, oil, salt, waterpower, textile industries, automobiles, paper industries, tourism, export, balance of payments, cur...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004703720304146
• English
• 1948-1951
• 1 electronic resource (254 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive preparations for court preceedings, testimony given and requested of victims regarding the Nazi-war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as ethnical cleansing conducted by German forces and their Baltic collaborators during World War II in the Baltic States. Many of the testimonials refer to Riga Ghetto and the massacres and mistreatments the victims were subjected to. Several perpetrators are named, among them Rudolf Lange, Otto Tuchel, Eduard Roschmann, as well as Latvian SS collaborator Herbert Cukurs, the so called "Butcher of Riga" or "Hangman of Riga"...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004703800304146
• English
• 1948-1951
• 1 electronic resource (386 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive preparations for court preceedings, testimony given and requested of victims regarding the Nazi-war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as ethnical cleansing conducted by German forces and their Baltic collaborators during World War II in the Baltic States. Many of the testimonials refer to Riga Ghetto and the massacres and mistreatments the victims were subjected to. Several perpetrators are named, among them Rudolf Lange, Otto Tuchel, Eduard Roschmann, as well as Latvian SS collaborator Herbert Cukurs, the so called "Butcher of Riga" or "Hangman of Riga"...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004703970304146
• English
• 1930
• 1 electronic resource (5 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

Propaganda-Information on the communistic party from the year 1930 by an unknown author. The document covers the following topics: Attitude towards the financial capital, communistic leaders (also Jewish ones, e.g. Eugen Levine, Kurt Eisner), fight against the National Socialists

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004703980304146
• English
• 1948-1951
• 1 electronic resource (454 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive preparations for court preceedings, testimony given and requested of victims regarding the Nazi-war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as ethnical cleansing conducted by German forces and their Baltic collaborators during World War II in the Baltic States. Many of the testimonials refer to Riga Ghetto and the massacres and mistreatments the victims were subjected to. Several perpetrators are named, among them Rudolf Lange, Otto Tuchel, Eduard Roschmann, as well as Latvian SS collaborator Herbert Cukurs, the so called "Butcher of Riga" or "Hangman of Riga"...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004704320304146
• English
• 1943
• 1 electronic resource (15 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The document seems to be taken from a larger volume, starting on page 112 and including all the pages up to page 124. There is a handwritten note attached saying "The American Historical Association. National Archives Microcopy" and attributing the writing possibly to M[artin] Bormann, giving a possible date of 1943. The document deals with the relationship between and responsibilities of the National Socialist Party and the National Socialist State. Propaganda should be the sole responsibility of hte Party. This is the most effective way and the way it was succesfull in destroying the old ...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004704750304146
• English
• 1948
• 1 electronic resource (337 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive preparations for court preceedings, testimony given and requested of victims regarding the Nazi-war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as ethnical cleansing conducted by German forces and their Baltic collaborators during World War II in the Baltic States. Many of the testimonials refer to Riga Ghetto and the massacres and mistreatments the victims were subjected to. Several perpetrators are named, among them Rudolf Lange, Otto Tuchel, Eduard Roschmann, as well as Latvian SS collaborator Herbert Cukurs, the so called "Butcher of Riga" or "Hangman of Riga"...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004704810304146
• English
• 1948-1951
• 1 electronic resource (489 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive preparations for court preceedings, testimony given and requested of victims regarding the Nazi-war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as ethnical cleansing conducted by German forces and their Baltic collaborators during World War II in the Baltic States. Many of the testimonials refer to Riga Ghetto and the massacres and mistreatments the victims were subjected to. Several perpetrators are named, among them Rudolf Lange, Otto Tuchel, Eduard Roschmann, as well as Latvian SS collaborator Herbert Cukurs, the so called "Butcher of Riga" or "Hangman of Riga"...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004704890304146
• English
• 1979
• 1 electronic resource (675 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004704920304146
• English
• 1979
• 1 electronic resource (447 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004705220304146
• English
• 1945
• 1 electronic resource (13 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains a guide on public and citizen services as well as physical location of adminsitrative entities in Berlin in the months following the end of World War II. Intended as an addressbook for private citizens and business people alike in search of the provisional offices of public administration entities in the destroyed and occupied capital of Germany.

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004705230304146
• English
• 1937
• 1 electronic resource (60 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains the efforts undertaken (in form of correspondence and behind the scenes debate) between different political entities of the NSDAP (Nazi party) in the Thuringian city of Erfurt, to disenfranchise and disposess the Jewish owners of a department store, called "Roman Emperor", in the city centre. Moreover the discussion between the different entities contains an atypical argument for such cases, meaning that aryanisation and thereby dispossession of the Jewish owners is only advised in case the department store has a commerically viable future under a new aryan owner.

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004705440304146
• English
• 1 electronic resource ( 6 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains two articles, one named "Eine Dorfversammlung der NSDAP-ein Fest der Volksgemeinschaft" (A village meeting of the NSDAP -a celebration of Folk-Unity), written by Hermann Lomberg (2 pages long), the second one named "Brief an einen Auslandsdeutschen" (Letter to a German Expat), written by Arthur Siebert (3.5 pages long). Both do not contain a publishing date and are taken from a book/larger selection of articles. In the first article Lomberg describes a village meeting in Lemförde am Dümmersee, that is a lot more than pure duty, but a special "hour of sanctification". The s...

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004705470304146
• English
• 1939
• 1 electronic resource (12 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

Informational brochure of the German Propaganda Headquarter of the NSDAP about Poland from September 1939. The brochure covers the following topics/has the following headings: Talking big politically, What does Poland want?, Richness in ground, Poland - Europe's State of Nationalities, Poland got more than it needs, Lust for power is trump, "Polish" land, Germans brought the economic boom, Polish "culture", Poland, the new Checho-Slovakia, The Power at the Rhine

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004705560304146
• English
• 1940-1942
• 1 electronic resource (150 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains scans of several circular letters, sent to the leaders of immigrants labor camps in Switzerland. Beside a compulsory english course for the inmates or holiday entitlements, the correspondence deals with the camps supply of food, toiletries or clothings as well as instructions for the handeling of several insurances and further bureaucracy. The instructions were given out by the Central Labor Camp Administration in Zurich and were mostly signed by the head of the Central Administration Otto Zaugg.

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004705890304146
• English
• 1934-1937
• 1 electronic resource (183 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains extensive testimony given by witnesses regarding the court preceedings against Swiss-Russian antisemitic agitator and German spy, Boris Toedli. The documents ascert Toedli's membership in the Swiss National Front, an extreme right wing party ideologically aligned with the NSDAP, the National Socialist Government in Germany, and responsible for spreading antisemitic propaganda in Switzerland as well as attempts of intimidation of Jewish Swiss nationals residing in the Zurich area.

• Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב
• 990004706140304146
• English
• 1940-1944
• 1 electronic resource (363 pages)
• Updated 1 year ago

The file contains documents pertaining to Aktion-M, an aryanisation and plundering operation initiated and supervised by Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, regarding the confiscation, appropriation and transport of deported or fled Jewish citizens, families and individuals belongings in the form of mostly furniture, but also textiles and clothes taken from their now abandoned apartments in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands for redistribution to German citizens and SS personnel.