Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who perished and their deportation; correspondence with German authorities, in most part with municipalities and Population Registration offices, confirming the personal details of those who perished; copies of personal documents of those who perished, such as birth certificates and marriage certificates; testimonies that those who perished had been deported; decisions by the Court[s] of Law, and other correspondence. Repertory: Amtsgericht (district court) Luenen Signature Title / Content Relevant content 14 Else (née Auerbach) , Ursel and Elga Aronstein complete 15 Hermann Markus Aronstein complete 38 Hugo Terhoch complete 39 Isidor & Henriette (née Schutz) Stiefel and Anna Schutz complete 50 Josef & Juliana (née Ruben) Rosenbaum complete 78 Hildegard (née Rose) Hannemann complete 91 Elfriede (née Wolff) Feldheim (contains: Mail from KZ Theresienstadt) complete 112 Roser Werner, Betty (née Gruenewald) Rose, Salomon Rose, Martha Rose, Frieda Speicher, Regina Speicher complete 113 Herta (née Salomon), Ewald and Mathel Schleimer complete 148 Karl Gumprich complete 166 Anna Rosa Pawlowski complete