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Holding Institution: Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

  1. 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...

  2. Fifth Circular Report of the International Tracing Service at Arolsen

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This files contains the Circular Report of the ITS from May 1953 regarding inquiries and requests and documents and certificates, like evacuation transport lists from Concentration Camps in the East to Germany or certificates of residence for refugees.

  3. [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.

  4. [Number of reports and description or DALJEWCIB regarding the arrival and condition of refugees in Shanghai via searoute from Italy]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains numerous reports, correspondence and detailed description of DALJEWCIB and relief commitee members regarding the arrival and physical as well as psychological condition of refugees in Shanghai via sea route from Italy and Germany

  5. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Israel I., a yeshiva student from Lida, left October 22, 1939 with his yeshiva which relocated communally from Kleck to Vilnius. He describes German bombardment of the city, which resulted in over 60 casualties, Jews and Christians. The Polish military left the city, leaving it to a local militia, which consisted of both Jews and Poles, led by a local Polish dignitary. There were rumors that the Polish population was planning a pogrom, but nothing happened. The Soviets entered the city in mid-September and were generally well-inclined to the Jewish population. Life in the city ...

  6. [Memorandum about the rejection of emigration at the Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A Memorandum about the conference's rejection of emigration as a solution and the condemnation of the government's actions in depriving a minority of its legal and human rights. The memorandum suggests retraining young Jews in agricultural and manual occupations to find ways of financing the immigration. Hope that the Conference will seek to deal both with the causes of the trouble and with the immediate alleviation of the problem of refugees. Germany must release the immigrants' property. It is hoped that the Conference will establish a small executive body which will direct and supervise ...

  7. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    In his statement, 46 year old Zalman Pudlowski, a textile worker and member of the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia) describes his escape from Bełcható to Łódź. He depicts a shift in the Polish Christian - Jewish relations from friendly to violent and how he was arrested in Błonie and forced to work. He furthemore gives details about the life in Warsaw, bombings by the Nazis, the panic among the Polish citizens and the arrest of the leadership of the Bund. Protocol No. 15 is an extract from a volume of pro...

  8. [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.

  9. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin concerning the delays in aquiring visa permits for emigrees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin concerning the delays in aquiring visa permits for emigrees from europe due to chinese bureaucratic culture and other obstacles

  10. 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).

  11. Bericht über die Lage der Juden in Ostgalizien

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report about the situation of Jews in Eastern Galicia, published by the 'World Jewish Congress. Executive committe' in 1940. The report is based on the narration of a witness. It discribes the situation of Jews in Eastern Galicia from the beginning of the occupation by the Soviet Union on the 17th of September 1939 till December 1939. When the Red Army invated Poland the Jews were impute to welcome the invasion. But infact they saw the invasion by the Soviet Union as the lesser evil, as beeing occupied by the Nazis. But as the report tries to show, the Jewish population ...

  12. 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...

  13. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organisations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several letters concerning assistance for Jews in Czechoslovakia. Returning from concentration camps there is a need for clothing and food supplies. Also grants are needed for restoration of Jewish communal properties. The Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia is asking besides for grants to establish a home for 200 young and for 150 old people in Prague. Furthermore grants have been needed for supporting students in Czechoslovakia. The Central British Fund and the American Joint Distribution Committee want to cooperate in financing certain activities in Cze...

  14. [Hell or Paradise]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports written by Paul Anderson, regading the reality of Soviet life. He gives informations about Soviet collective farms, the trade Unions and about Red Army refugees who recently escaped to the West from the Soviet zone of Germany. As Anderson argues communities in the country side of Russia had a hard and not easy life, which makes it even more surprising why they were still voting for the communist party. This is based ultimately on illudions and ideals that are false even if they are genuinely and sincerely belived in. To every Soviet citizen the first experi...

  15. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Lucian Teitelboim, 22 year old radio electrician from Warsaw, a soldier in the 13th Wilno Uhlan regiment. He describes the military's uncertainty as information was concealed for fear of spies, and general fear. Though casualties from bombardment were not large among the military, civilians were killed, including women and children. No actions were taken against the German airplanes. He describes the disorganization and lack of discipline in the ranks after bombardments as well as possible desertions by officers. He describes how after the routing of the regiment and its surren...

  16. [DALJEWCIB Correspondence on a translation of a report on the Jewish situation in Shanghai by the "Jewish Messenger"]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB Correspondence on a translation of a report on the Jewish situation in Shanghai by the English language Zionist periodical "Jewish Messenger"(17.3.1939), magazine, published by emigrees from Europe, detailing living conditions in China, the overall political situation and many more aspects od daily life.

  17. [Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany on the 16th of June 1938 in Paris. Information that the American Advisory Committee for the Evian Conference would welcome a Memorandum from the Liaison Committee and that a Delegate from the Committee might attend the Conference. Decision to present a Memorandum dealing with the position of refugees that already left Germany and Austria and pointing out the need for further emigration for them. Different suggestions regarding the Memorandum by several members of the Sub...

  18. Letter to Moses Beckelman, Vilno, 1940

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Letter from the "Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939" to the Director General of the "American Joint Distribution" Moses Beckelman, outlining their work. The committee, consisting of 60 polish-jewish writers and journalists, was gathering information about what happened to Jews since the outbreak of the war, including information about Jews suffering in Concentration camps. The letter describes the efforts that the committee was undertaking to collect material, namely, to organize staff, to interview refugees, and to type down everything so it...

  19. 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.

  20. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organizations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several lettes. Mostly between the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, the American Jont Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Topics mentioned in the letters are establishing or continuing hostels in Bratislava, religous schools in Slovakia, funds for a Kosher Kitchen and an old aged home in Prague. As it might be a specifically Jewish need for some refugees and essential for their welfare. Also grants have been asked for necessary reconstruction of a hospital and claims involving restitution of Jewish property.