Anti-Jewish enactments in the Reichsprotektorat

Identifier
WL545
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70521
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Jan 1944
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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