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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. "16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "16 Days in Hiding": Report by an unknown author regarding his experiences in hiding in Grodno Liquidation of the Grodno Ghetto under the command of Kurt Wiese and Erich Schott, the Gestapo men, February-12 March 1943; life in hiding including a detailed description of the hiding place; collaboration of the Polish and Belorussian police with the Germans in discovering hiding places of Jews; capture of the Jews in hiding; escape of the author; the author's transfer to Bialystok.

  2. "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow Occupation of Radzilow by the German Army, 23 June 1941; attitude of the Poles towards the German Army; handing over of Soviet Army soldiers who did not have time to escape [by the Poles] to the Germans; names of Polish collaborators; abuse and murder of Jews by Poles; robbery of property; desecration of religious objects including the burning of Torah scrolls; attitude of the Poles towards the Jews; incitement of the Poles against the Jews; establishment of a local Polish authority in Ra...

  3. "Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "Jewish Street Song": Poem written by Jakow Opaczynski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920 Return of a Jewish soldier who fought bravely against the Nazis to an empty city which has been destroyed; life in the Jewish street before the war including preparations for the Sabbath, debates between Revisionists and Zionists and relations between Jews and non-Jews; outbreak of the war; life in the ghetto including hunger, cold, mortality, abuse, beatings, arrest and murder of Jews; transporting of Jews by the Gestapo; destruction of the Jewish street; atmosphere of silence in the cemetery...

  4. "The Destruction of Bialystok": Report by Zipora Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "The Destruction of Bialystok": Report by Zipora Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto Deportation of Jews from the Bialystok area to Treblinka, November 1942; murder of the Jews in Treblinka; escape of Jews from villages in the area to the Bialystok Ghetto; transfer of the civilian government in the ghetto to the Gestapo; sealing of the ghetto; prevention of Jews from leaving the ghetto to go to work outside the ghetto, February 1943; "Aktion" conducted by the Gestapo, Kripo and Schupo, 05 February 1943; refusal of Jewish policemen to cooperate with the Germans; murder ...

  5. ["Judenangelegenheiten"- Bayern II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a collection of correspondence between the Gestapo Würzburg and various government bodies. Its topics include the restrictions on social Jewish gatherings and the prevention of public unrest after the killing of Wilhelm Gustloff. It includes a letter by Rudolf Hess about the correct labeling of signs (Jews not welcome) in wake of foreign outcry. A search warrant by the Gestapo is included for a couple on a motorbike taking pictures of signs restricting access to Jews. Most correspondence deals with economic issues. For example, an interpretation of the Nurembe...

  6. ["Judenangelegenheiten"- Bayern III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the third part of a collection of correspondence between the Gestapo Würzburg and various government bodies. Among them a letter from the Interior Ministry on the exclusion of monetary and other contributions by Jews to institutions. Correspondence on the curfew for Jews on the day of national solidarity among others by R. Heydrich. A letter by the mayor of Würzburg on the “aryanization” of Jewish businesses with a list of businesses and the names of interested applicants. The Reichsführer SS and Chief of German Police on the elimination of Jews from German business activity. I...

  7. ["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...

  8. ["Judenangelegenheiten"-Bayern I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first part of a series of files containing correspondence by the Ministry of the interior, the Bavarian political police and the Gestapo Würzburg and press clippings. Included is a confiscated copy of the magazine “Der Stürmer” held back because of an article about the ritual slaughter of Christian children. Correspondence includes dealings between “aryan and non aryan ” businesses and an investigation of a boycott of „Arian“ shoe factories by Jewish businesses. Further documents about the confiscation of Jewish newspapers and magazines from news stands,the boycott of Jewish...

  9. [Boycott of German Economy I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains diplomatic correspondence between the German Foreign Ministry, represented by Vicco von Bülow-Schwante, and various German diplomatic missions on international boycott activities directed against Nazi Germany. The first part contains letters and reports from German diplomats regarding the situation of boycott initiatives directed against the Nazi German economy in their respective countries. Diplomats replied to a survey on the structure, the extent, and the people organizing or promoting economic boycott strategies, and specifically on the participation of Jewish people i...

  10. [Carl Schmitt documents - Arguments that see Schmitt as an opponent of the SS ]

    1. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    The first part of this file is a notification from SD-Hauptamt (Main Security Office), department II/2, dated 26./28.08.1936, to the "Stabsführer des SD-Hauptamtes" (Staff Leader of the Main Security Office) with the request to present it to C. Compilation of arguments based on what Schmitt supposedly said or did in order to prove that he clearly sees the SS as his opponent regarding ideologies and tries to work against it. The notification is signed by [Reinhard] Höhn, the leader of this department. The second part is a copy of a notification of the Gestapo (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt - Sec...

  11. [Carl Schmitt documents - Internal correspondence of the SD]

    1. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    The file consists of several parts: 1.) Internal note concerning Schmitt from SD-Hauptamt (Main Security Office),department II/222 to department II/2, dated November 27,1936. Investigations regarding the whereabouts of letters need to be made. Schmitt claims having received letters from Jews and having forwarded them to the Gestapo (Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt – Secret State Police Agency). According to information from both the Gestapo and the Stapostelle Berlin (Staatspolizeistelle Berlin - Berlin State Police Office), their department of observation of Jews does not know of such a writing....

  12. [Carl Schmitt documents: letters, and dossier on political views]

    1. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    Various letters and reports on Schmitt,different authors and addressees:1.) Letter by Security Service Central Office to "Das Schwarze Korps", dated 15.01.1937 about Günther Müller from Danzig; 2.) Report by [Heinz] Lämmel, dated 15.01.1937 to SD Central Office, Department I 3; 3.) Letter by Security Service-Oberabschnitt Ost (Superior District East) [no direct author given, hand signature not readable] to Security Service Main Office, Werner Braune , dated 12.01.1937, announcing an attached shorthand report from 19.12.1936 by Hans-Dieter Schmidt on Schmitt's reply concerning the allegation...

  13. [Correspondence regarding the Bern trial records access]

    1. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    The file contains a correspondence regarding the Bern trial records access in April 1935. Various letters from Fleischhauer regarding the inspection of russian files can be seen. Loosli used some russian files for the Bern trial, which he promised not to handle over or show unauthorized people. Fleischhauer however wanted to see them, as they were part of the trial and might have been important also for his expert opinion. The judicial office in Bern, spezifically judge Walter Meyer, refuses this wish, as he did not want to sent any files to Germany. The explanation was clear: 'as the Swiss...

  14. [Correspondence regarding the Bern trial records access]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a correspondence regarding the Bern trial records access in April 1935. Various letters from Fleischhauer regarding the inspection of russian files can be seen. Loosli used some russian files for the Bern trial, which he promised not to handle over or show unauthorized people. Fleischhauer however wanted to see them, as they were part of the trial and might have been important also for his expert opinion. The judicial office in Bern, spezifically judge Walter Meyer, refuses this wish, as he did not want to sent any files to Germany. The explanation was clear: 'as the Swiss...

  15. [Correspondence regarding the Bern trial records access]

    1. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The file contains a correspondence regarding the Bern trial records access in April 1935. Various letters from Fleischhauer regarding the inspection of russian files can be seen. Loosli used some russian files for the Bern trial, which he promised not to handle over or show unauthorized people. Fleischhauer however wanted to see them, as they were part of the trial and might have been important also for his expert opinion. The judicial office in Bern, spezifically judge Walter Meyer, refuses this wish, as he did not want to sent any files to Germany. The explanation was clear: 'as the Swiss...

  16. [Correspondences regarding racial desirable children, 1941-1943]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    All the correspondences in the file regard racial desirable children for the purpose of Germanization in special homes and institutions. Among them is an order to Germanize the names of the children before placing them in German families, a letter from Himmler to Sollmann, sending Sollmann to Prague to discuss the matter of the children spared from the Lidice massacre, that have been found racial desirable. Appendant, a notification from the Gestapo to the immigrations center of Litzmanstadt follows, stating the arrival of 90 unaccompanied children from Lidice between the ages of 1-16 years...

  17. [Eichmann-trial, Witness statements multiple IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is part of the witness statements acquired in Germany and Austria of former functionaries in Nazi Germany on behalf of the prosecutor of the Eichmann trial in 1961. The witnesses are Dr. Eberhard von Thadden, who gives insight into the Klessheim meeting between Hitler and Horthy and Alfred Slawik, who was a servant of Eichmann during his time in Budapest (April to November 1944). He describes the layout of the confiscated Villa Aschner in Budapest, where Eichmann and his subordinates stayed while in Budapest. He is also asked about a Jewish boy who was apparently hit by Eichmann at...

  18. [Emigration form, Brno]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an information paper about emigration from Brno. It is explained which papers are needed and how much they cost. Jews need besides a confirmation of the Gestapo - Einsatzkommando (Secret State Police) if they want to leave the country.

  19. [Ernst Heilmann]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Handwritten letter of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from June 28, 1933 - two days after his imprisonment. A letter of the secretary of the Reichs chansellery refering to the arrest of her husband. Handwritten letter of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from August 4, 1933 written in Ploetzensee prison. Postcard of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from August 10, 1933 from concentration camp Oranienburg. Certificate from the concentration camp Oranienburg about the incarcaration of Ernst Heilmann from 8.8.33 to 7.9.33. Postcard of Ernst Heilmann to his wife from September 7, 1933 from concentration camp Ora...

  20. [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.