IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL MF 57
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: personal papers (microfiche)
Date(s): 1900-1939
Level of description: collection
Extent: 800 microfiche
Name of creator(s): Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Reischsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Organisation of German Jews) came into being in February 1939 and, as far as its leadership and basic purposes was concerned, was a continuation of its predecessor, the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland. As a result of the intensification of the Third Reich's anti-semitic policies, its aims were increasingly linked to Jewish survival, and in particular, emigration. It was put under the control of the Ministry of the Interior, in practice the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office). It was the only organisation in Germany dealing with Jewish survival until its liquidation in July 1943 when its leaders, Leo Baeck and Paul Eppstein were deported to Theresienstadt.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Personal and family papers, 1900-1939, ranging from First World War army records to correspondence and passports of several hundred Jews, handed over to the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland whilst the individuals were waiting in collection centres, having been rounded up by the Nazis prior to deportation to Eastern Europe. Includes index.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
Alphabetical by family name.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm.
Finding aids:
Wiener Library reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Discovered in the basement of the destroyed synagogue at Oranienbuerger Strasse, (former East) Berlin, the records were transferred to the Zentrales Staatsarchiv of the German Democratic Republic in Potsdam. Parts of the main archive were copied and transferred to Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Now the archive is situated in the Bundesarchiv, Germany.
Immediate source of acquisition:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Bundesarchiv, Germany.
Existence and location of copies:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA; Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Related material:
REICHSVEREINIGUNG DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND AND REICHSVERTRETUNG DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND: VARIOUS PAPERS, 1937-1950s (ref: 605) and REICHSVERTRETUNG DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND: CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COUNCIL FOR GERMAN JEWRY, 1936-1940 (ref:606).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2008