Exclusion, Dispersal, Extermination: Jews in Schwerin, 1933-1945 Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Bernichtung: Juden in Schwerin, 1933-1945
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Rolf Meyersohn in 1997.
Scope and Content
Contains a report entitled "Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Bernichtung: Juden in Schwerin, 1933-1945" ("Exclusion, Dispersal, Extermination: Jews in Schwerin, 1933-1945") by Bernd Kasten, with translations by Rolf Meyersohn. Provides information regarding the community of Schwerin with descriptions of the businesses, entrepreneurs, and factory directors; relations with Berlin and the Nazi party; Kristallnacht and its aftermath; the role of the town's physicians; boycotting of the craftsmen and workers; emigration and hiding of school-aged children; fates of the elderly; Mischlinge; relations with non-Jews in the town (bystanders); and conclusion and name list of those Jews who did and did not survive.
Subjects
- Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
- Jews--Germany--Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Genre
- Registers.
- Document