Exclusion, Dispersal, Extermination: Jews in Schwerin, 1933-1945 Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Bernichtung: Juden in Schwerin, 1933-1945

Identifier
irn519583
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0120
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519583

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Rolf Meyersohn in 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains a report entitled "Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Bernichtung: Juden in Schwerin, 1933-1945" ("Exclusion, Dispersal, Extermination: Jews in Schwerin, 1933-1945") by Bernd Kasten, with translations by Rolf Meyersohn. Provides information regarding the community of Schwerin with descriptions of the businesses, entrepreneurs, and factory directors; relations with Berlin and the Nazi party; Kristallnacht and its aftermath; the role of the town's physicians; boycotting of the craftsmen and workers; emigration and hiding of school-aged children; fates of the elderly; Mischlinge; relations with non-Jews in the town (bystanders); and conclusion and name list of those Jews who did and did not survive.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • Jews--Germany--Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)

Genre

  • Registers.
  • Document
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