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  1. Bequest Peter Gingold

    Peter Gingold was born in Aschaffenburg on March 8, 1919. His family was Polish and Jewish and he grew up in Frankfurt (Main). There, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at a big music retail business in 1930. He joined the union Zentralverband Deutscher Angestellter (ZDA) (Central Association of German Employees) and in 1931, the Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD) (Communist Youth League Germany). In 1933, Gingold was arrested in a SA raid. With the help of friends, he fled via the Saarland to Paris where his family had already emigrated some months before. He proceeded...

  2. Pre-death legacy Johannes Warlo

    In 2013, the Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the pre-death legacy of chief prosecutor Johannes Warlo including comprehensive records from his work at the attorney general's office in Frankfurt (Main). The pre-death legacy mostly documents Warlo's investigation into Nazi violent crimes, especially into the so-called euthanasia. Johannes Warlo was born in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia in 1927. Before finishing school, he was conscripted to the Kriegsmarine as an officer candidate. In 1945, he was a British prisoner of war for a few months. Then, he took an extra course for high-school graduates an...

  3. Pre-death legacy Heinz Düx

    Heinz Düx transferred documents of his professional and personal life one by one to the Fritz Bauer Institute in the late 2000s. Heinz Düx was born in Marburg on April 24, 1924. After his Abitur, he studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1942 to 1948. His studies were intermitted in 1944 and 1945 when he was obligated to work for the railway yard Marburg and when he stayed at the Vogelsberg to avoid being drafted into the Volkssturm. After the end of the war, Düx joined the KPD and was a member of the denazification committee of the Marburg University's law faculty. In 1946 ...

  4. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Pieplow

    Jürgen Pieplow was born in Rostock in 1935. After his Abitur, he started working for the regional press as a drawer, graphic designer, and journalist. Since he was denied to study in the GDR, he moved to West Berlin in 1956 and studied there at the Academy for Visual Arts. Starting in 1962, he worked as a publishing and advertising graphic designer in Hamburg. He worked for several companies including Springer and the Jahreszeiten-Verlag. From 1971 to 1977, he worked as a designer and a public relations consultant for Aktion Sühnezeichen and other Christian peace services. In the late 1970s...

  5. Bequest Hans Kugler

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Hans Kugler from his granddaughter in July 2021. Hans Kugler was born in Frankfurt (Main) on December 12, 1900. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he studied economics. Starting in 1921, he worked as a manager in the administration department Farben of the Farbwerke Hoechst. In 1924, he earned his doctorate. The same year, he became a procurator for the Farbwerke Hoechst and in 1928 for the I.G. Farben. As an I.G. Farben's representative Kugler co-founded the "Drei-Sparten-Farbstoff-Kartell" (three-branch-dye-cartel) in 1929. In 1...

  6. Collection Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz - Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e.V.

    Werner Renz, the former archivist of the Fritz Bauer Institute transferred the collection "Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz — Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e. V." (Camp Community Auschwitz — friends of the Auschwitzers e. V.) to the Institute in February 2018. Werner Renz was an active member of the camp community from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The collection Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz — Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e. V. covers after description, demetallization, and filing three archival units with a total extent of 0.25 running meters. It provides an insight into the internal conflict...

  7. Pre-death legacy Gerhard Wiese

    Gerhard Wiese was born in Berlin on August 26, 1928. Deployed as an anti-aircraft assistant, he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Soviets. He was released in 1946. Subsequently, he studied law in Berlin and Frankfurt (Main). He passed his state examination and then worked as a state prosecutor, first in Fulda and as of 1961 in Frankfurt. Starting in 1962, Gerhard Wiese participated in the preparation and the conduct of the proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63), the so called First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. With the prosecutors Vogel and Kügler, he pressed charges and drafted...

  8. Bequest Eduard Wirths

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Eduard Wirths from his wife and children in July 2005. Eduard Wirths was born in Geroldshausen near Würzburg on September 4, 1909. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg from 1930 to 1935 and earned his doctoral degree in 1936. Subsequently, he worked for the Thuringian Landesamt für Rassewesen, the public health office in Sonneberg, the University gynecological clinic in Jena, and the Reichsärztekammer. He joined the NSDAP and the SA as early as 1933. In 1934, he switched from the SA to the SS and became a member of the Waffen-SS...

  9. Fürsorgezentrale der IKG Wien, Auswanderungsabteilung, Gildemeester-Auswanderungshilfsaktion

    Erhebungsblätter der Gildemeester-Auswanderungshilfsaktion über Schutzhäftlinge in Dachau, Mitarbeiterlisten der Gildemeester-Auswanderungshilfsaktion, Korrespondenzen sowie diverse Formulare (1938 bis 1941, 1944)

  10. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien

    Deportationslisten, Ansuchen und Atteste betreffend Transportrückstellungen sowie Dokumente in Zusammenhang mit Deportationen

  11. Amtsdirektion der IKG Wien

    Beschlüsse, Telegramme, Aktennotizen, Korrespondenz und Rundschreiben der Amtsdirektion in Zusammenhang mit der Organisation der Auswanderung und der Devisen

  12. Fürsorgezentrale der IKG Wien, Auswanderungsabteilung, Beratungsstelle für Berufsausbildung und Umschichtung

    Statistische Aufstellungen zur Auswanderung, Umschulung und Berufsumschichtung; Dokumente und Berichte zu Umschichtungskursen

  13. Fürsorgezentrale der IKG Wien, Auswanderungsabteilung

    Auswanderungsfragebögen, statistische Aufstellungen, Dokumente, Korrespondenz, Erhebungsbögen und Merkblätter betreffend die Auswanderung (u.a. auch die Kinderauswanderung) Auswanderungsfragebögen: Der jeweilige Hausvorstand musste auf dem Fragebogen folgende Informationen angeben: Namen (auch der im Haushalt wohnenden Angehörigen), Geburtsdatum- und ort, Familienstand, Staatsangehörigkeit, Aufenthaltsdauer in Österreich, Beruf und letzte Stellung, Verdienst und wirtschaftliche Situation, Sprachkenntnisse, Auswanderungsziel, finanzielle Mittel, Reisepassinformationen sowie Beziehungen ins A...

  14. Devisen-Auskunftsstelle der IKG Wien und des Palästina-Amtes

    Korrespondenz der Devisen-Auskunftsstelle der IKG Wien und des Palästina-Amtes in Zusammenhang mit der Organisation der Auswanderung sowie Bescheide hinsichtlich der benötigten Devisen; die DevisenantragstellerInnen wurden in einer Kartei personenbezogen (Namen u.a. auch der Verwandten, Staatsbürgerschaft, Adressen, Zielorte, Höhe der Devisen) registriert

  15. Wirtschaftsstelle der IKG Wien

    Aufstellungen zu Proviant und verladenen Lebensmitteln im Rahmen der Deportationstransporte Nr. 1 bis 10, 12, 14 bis 33, 37 bis 39 und 41 bis 45 mit Angabe des Transportdatums (teils auch des Transportziels), der Personenanzahl sowie der verbrauchten Güter

  16. Palästina-Amt

    Diverse Berichte des Palästina-Amtes

  17. Ausschuss für jüdische Überseetransporte

    Formulare, Merkblätter, Korrespondenz, Fragebögen betreffend die Auswanderung (insbesondere zu Palästina-Transporten)

  18. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, Ältestenrat der Juden in Wien

    Tabellarische Aufstellung (handschriftlich) betreffend "Polentransporte", Deportationslisten sowie Dokumente in Zusammenhang mit Deportationen

  20. Αρχείο Τράπεζας Ανατολής

    • Orient Bank Archive
    • Archeio Trapezas Anatolis

    Files on financial matters of the Thessaloniki and Monastirion Branches: clearances, current accounts, customer files and correspondence. The Βank had some prominent jewish families of Thessaloniki as clients.