Anti-Jewish enactments in the Reichsprotektorat
Extent and Medium
c350 frames
Archival History
This microfilm documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Moravska Ostrava (Mährisch-Ostrau) to Nisko in the Government General, Poland, was obtained with the help of the Czech embassy in London in the early 1960s. Nothing more is known about its custody prior to deposit.
Scope and Content
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It also includes some material on the deportation of Jews from Vienna, Prague and Brünn. In addition there is some reference to the deportation of Gypsies from Berlin and former Czechoslovakia. The papers provide a detailed insight into the logistics of deportation including the appropriation of belongings over the years 1939-1944. Reference is made to the preparation of Theresienstadt as a camp for deported Jews.
Correspondents include the Zentralstelle jüdische Auswanderung, Prague; Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Mährisch-Ostrau, Brünn and Wien; and Gestapo Brünn. SS Hauptsturmführer Eichmann occurs throughout either as the author or recipient of telegrams and memoranda.
Telegrams, memoranda, statistical information re the deportation of Jews from Mährisch-Ostrau and other places
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Conditions Governing Reproduction
USE R:\Document collections\MF54\Working Images\22\Wiener Docs frames 776-869; R:\Document collections\MF54\Working Images\23\Wiener Docs frames 1-293
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Microfilm
Subjects
- Documents
- Deportations
- Sinti and Roma
- Antisemitism
- Terezin (ghetto)
- Zarzecze (slave labour camp for Jews)
Places
- Poland
- Ostrava