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  1. [ITS case file, 1947-1948]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Case about the guardianship of a findeling boy named Peter, born 1945. Several parties claimed guardianship over the orphan and the identification of such took over 2 years. It was unclear to the authorities whether the boy was Polish or German. Documentation includes declarations regarding the boy from the German court, and correspondences between the parties in German, English and polish.

  2. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  3. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains four circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from April and July 1969. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1612, no. 1603, no. 1605, and no. 1604. 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”). Furthermore, the issues focus on the status of being recognized as a re...

  4. Jews in Sweden III

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of a collection of lists compiled by the Jewish community of Sweden. It is a continuation of the previous compilation of group 2 (Jews who arrived after June 26th, 1945). The lists are in alphabetical order (first and last name, date of birth, city and identity card no.) and grouped by nationality.

  5. Circulars and reports by the United Romanian Jews of America

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Circulars and reports by the United Roumanian Jews of America and letter exchanges with state offices concerning the plight of the Jews in Transnistria. Circulars, letter exchanges and news bulletins concerning the rescue efforts of sailing Jews from Constanza to Palestine via Turkey. Other issues are the hardship of Romanian refugees. Among the documents a witness report about the situation of the Jews in Romania. The file also contains requests for help for Romanian Jews that could escape to Palestine by the Romanian Jewish Organizationin Palestine and prove of assistance by the United Ro...

  6. Tracing in the Soviet Zone

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file contains a letter from the Central Tracing Bureau to the Netherlands Red Cross regarding cooperation to trace children of nationalities which belong to the United Nations in the Soviet Zone in Germany in 1947. This includes analysis of personal data of the missing children and interrogation of personnel at former Lebensborn homes in Dresden, Leipzig und Chemnitz. Added to the letter is a list of children insured by the Berliner Verein which states the present name of the child, birth date, names and addresses of forster parents and the transfer date from Lebensborn institutes to f...

  7. [Letter about the American delegation to Evian]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    American delegation to Evian: A letter regarding the late arrival of the American delegation to Evian. It has not been possible yet to get an agreement of the Jewish Organizations represented on the Council about a memorandum concerning the refugees. Bentwich sends Taylor a book he wrote about the Jews.

  8. [Letter of a DALJEWCIB staff member in Japan, asking the adressee to refrain from disclosing his identity]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Letter of a DALJEWCIB staff member in Osaka/Kobe, Japan, asking the adressee in Germany, an emigree to not reveal his identity to the customs staff in Osaka harbour, in order not to disclose the ongoing rescue efforts for Jewish emigrees from Germany to Japan and the organisation behind it

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. [On the Evian conference and the situation of Jews in Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a typewritten document of three pages written in Dutch and published by the “Joodsche Perscommissie voor byzondere Berichtgeving” in Amsterdam in July 1938. The document contains three short articles on the situation of Jewish people in Germany. The first text deals with the Evian Conference regarding the emigration of Jewish people from Germany. The second text is on the rise of suicide cases among the Jewish people in Germany. Finally, the third text deals with public protest of English clerics against the persecution of Jews in Germany.

  12. [Correspondence regarding treatment of foreign children, fit for Germanization]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The files contains original documents in German and the translation in English between Himmler, Greifelt and Kaltenbrunner from 1940-1943. The documents regard the treatment of pregnant foreign women inside of the Reich and foreign children, fit for Germanization.

  13. 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).

  14. 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...

  15. Jews in Sweden IV

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the fourth part of a collection of lists compiled by the Jewish community of Sweden. It is a continuation of the previous compilation of group 2 (Jews who arrived after June 26th, 1945). The lists are in alphabetical order consisting of last and first name, date of birth, last domicile and identity card no. and are grouped by nationality.

  16. 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 ...

  17. 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).

  18. 2-поліцейський участок Префектури міста Одеси.

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 232 – Declarations on the ethnic origin of persons in Transnistria. 165pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 241 – Birth certificates of Transnistrian citizens. 1943. 64pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 248 – Lists of refugees in Transnistria. 78pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 251 – Population statistics for the district of Odessa. 1943. 18pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 254 – Population statistics for the district of Odessa. 1943. List of 3,441 persons under the age of 20 in Odessa. 1943. 91...

  19. Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of SIG (the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information regarding what was happening in Europe against the Jews, for example in Slovakia (from the Bratislava Working Group). He was in contact with representatives and activists of various Jewish or...

  20. Documentation regarding the Jews of Germany, mainly during the Holocaust

    Most of the documentation is from Jewish sources. The first 106 files are remnants from the archives of Jewish institutions, organizations and communities in Germany.Some of this Record Group consists of documentation photocopied from municipal archives in Germany regarding the Jews and including personal documents, surveys and articles regarding the destruction of the communities in Germany and more. There is also documentation included in the Collection regarding the Jewish school in Harlingen, 1933-1939, submitted by the principal of the school, Hugo Josef Rosenthal-Jashuvi, to Yad Vashem.