IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 604
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: records (microfilm)
Date(s): 1939
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 6 files
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:
Microfilm copies of papers of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, 1939, including constitution and drafts; minutes of meetings; circulars and information sheets regarding emigration; accounts; correspondence and file on the Jewish community in Munich.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
Chronological by material type.
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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Former members of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
605, 606
German Federal Archives: R1850.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007