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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. Gestapo Records I

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first part of a collection of originals and copies of circulars and correspondence of the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. Among these are expatriation requests for emigrated Jewish citizens and background checks. In addition there are guidelines for activities in all areas of daily life and how Jews should be restricted or excluded from participation.

  2. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf II ]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the second part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between August and October 1937. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand their detention. One circular deals with t...

  3. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf I ]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the first part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. This file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between March and August 1937. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand their detention.

  4. Gestapo Records IV

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is part of the collection of originals to the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. It contains the obligatory monthly reports by the Jewish community Suhl/Muhlhausen to the Gestapo. The reports include number of people, assets and bookkeeping records. Further details list addresses, birth records and intentions/preparations for emigration.

  5. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the fourth part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between March 1938 and June 1938. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo and the treatment of Émigrés returning to Germany. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand ...

  6. Gestapo Records II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a collection of originals and copies of circulars and correspondence of the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. Among these are expatriation requests for emigrated Jewish citizens and background checks

  7. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1937 and 1943. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, the treatment of Jews with foreign citizenship, anti-Jewish measures in everyday life (barber shops, broadcasting services, curfew, private relationships), the removal of citizenship and the entry to the Wehrmacht for children of Jewish and non-Jewish parents, and the confiscation of Jewish property. Furthermore, the file includes ...

  8. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf V]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the fifth part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1939 and 1942. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the deportation of Jewish people from the Lower Rhine Region in general, and specifically regarding the deportation of Jewish people from Goch to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt. The circulars provide information regarding the regulations and the procedures of the planned deportations as well as lists of property of the deportees. The file also contains a handwritten and anon...

  9. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the third part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between October 1937 and April 1938. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo and the treatment of Émigrés returning to Germany. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, ...

  10. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf 3]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1938 and 1942. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the confiscation and use of Jewish peoples’ apartments and personal property (radios, clothes, bicycles, technical supplies, household utensils), and the closing of Jewish schools. The documents also include lists of confiscated property. Some documents are of poor quality.

  11. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the fourth part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1937 and 1942. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the ban of Jewish press organs, the interdiction for Jewish people to use public phones, the regulations regarding the use of the Yellow Star and the marking of apartments occupied by Jewish people. Furthermore, the file includes regulations on the prohibition for Jewish people to leave their home municipality. The file also contains forms for the declaration of property. Finally, th...

  12. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1937 and 1943. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the treatment of Jewish sport clubs, organizations, and religious communities. Furthermore, the file contains various documents on the confiscation of Jewish property and money, the handover of the Jewish communities’ records, a court judgement following the destruction of a Jewish cemetery in Kleve, a report on the events of the “Kristallnacht” in November 1938 issued by the SS in Geldern, and finally, a circular regarding ...

  13. Gestapo Records III

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of a collection of originals and copies of circulars and correspondence of the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. The main contents of this file are expatriation requests for emigrated Jewish citizens and background checks.

  14. The work and origin of the Gestapo

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The files contain information on the work and origin of the Gestapo. The Gestapo was established in 1933. Members of the Gestapo had to be of a certain age, be part of the NSDAP and have acquired certain skills and distinctions. Through the years the Gestapo gained more and more power through measures like protective custody. According to the documents its purpose was to investigate, monitor and fight all efforts and acts that were considered dangerous for national safety and the unity of the people. The Gestapo enforced the many anti-Semitic decrees. Furthermore, not reporting an illegal l...

  15. Biskupi i kapłani Lubelszczyzny w szponach Gestapo 1939-1945

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The Polish publication “Bishops and priest of the Lublin region in the clutches of the Gestapo” provides information on the abuse, torture and murder Catholic clergy had to endure at the hands of the Nazsi during its occupation of the Lublin region of Poland during World War II. It includes a list of victims.

  16. [The air raids on the Gestapo Headquater in Aarhus 1944]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A pamphlet of the R.A.F. about the bombing of the Gestapo Headquaters in the university of Aarhus on 31.10.44. A illegal map of the University. A illegal paper coering the dead and wounded of the bombardement.

  17. Gestapo preparation of conquest of Austria and C.S.R.

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains quotes from books published in Great Britain and one quote from the Manchester Guardian. The topic is the infiltration of Austrian society and police by Nazi agents and agents provocateurs prior to the "Anschluss". Similar techniques were used during the occupation of Czechoslovakia. The file lists the name of the book or newspaper, author and publisher.

  18. Last letters of a young Danish patriot

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The booklet contains a short biography and the letters of Christian Ulrik Hansen, who was executed by the Gestapo on June 23rd, 1944. He is planning to return the Christian denominations back to unity, should he survive. His letters are full of clarity and wisdom, unafraid of the looming death.

  19. Jüdischer Kulturbund Hildesheim

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a correspondence concerning the establishment of a Kulturbund branch in Hildesheim. The exchange of letters is between the Kulturbund and Hans Hinkel, Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda. The Kulturbund Hildesheim presents to Hans Hinkel the new executive committee members of the branch and ask for permission to start the work. Besides a correspondence between Hans Hinkel and the Gestapo is attached. The correspondence regards a request about the new charmen of the Hildesheim branch of the Kulturbund. The Gestapo informed Hinkel, that there is noth...

  20. ["Judenangelegenheiten"- Bayern IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the fourth part of a collection of correspondence between the Gestapo Würzburg and various government bodies. Among them are circulars by H. Göring, R. Heydrich and H. Müller about the prohibition to deport Jews from Germany proper to Poland, a request for the exact number of Jews and their assets in Würzburg and a request by the Gestapo to send custom employees to various concentration camps in order to interview affluent Jewish prisoners about the whereabouts of their assets. Another circular by H. Göring deals with guidelines for housing of Jews, a ban for Jews to stay in pu...