IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 607
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland: correspondence with The Council for German Jewry (microfilm)
Date(s): 1936-1939
Level of description: collection
Extent: 6 files
Name of creator(s): Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Jewish Aid in Germany) was an organisation established by German Jews in 1901 to engage in social welfare and educational activities among needy Jews. It remained in operation until 1941, and during the Nazi period it assisted German Jews trying to emigrate.
After World War One, the Hilfsverein concentrated its efforts on Jewish refugees from eastern Europe who were stranded in Germany while trying to emigrate overseas.
The help that the Hilfsverein was able to give encompassed all aspects of emigration; up-to-date information, based on reports received from hundreds of contacts abroad; vocational counselling, technical arrangements, bureaucratic formalities and financial advice. When the Hilfsverein began to assist Jewish emigration from Germany, a clear division of responsibility was made between it and the Jewish Agency. The latter, through the Palastina-Amt, dealt exclusively with emigration to Palestine, while the Hilfsverein dealt with emigration elsewhere.
The Hilfsverein continued to function as an independent agency until 1939, when it became a section of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. In 1941, when emigration was prohibited altogether, that section also went out of existence.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Jewish Aid in Germany) comprising correspondence regarding emigration to Palestine, Shanghai and Kenya, 1936-1939, notably including a critical report by the French based Jewish Colonisation Association to the directors of HICEM, 1937 and a report on the activities of the Hilfsverein, 1936.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German, French, English
System of arrangement:
Chronological by subject matter.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Use microfilm.
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Former members of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, 1990
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007