Gestapo office Würzburg (State Archive Würzburg, Germany) Gestapostelle Würzburg (Staatsarchiv Würzburg)
Extent and Medium
399,631 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Staatsarchiv Würzburg
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Staatsarchiv Würzburg. The collection duplicated by the Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2020.This collection was digitized in its entirety by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives and the complete set of scans is provided to the USHMM as a free courtesy copy.
Scope and Content
Contains 24,780 arrest files, including photos of suspects (mug shots), private photos (for the most part ID photos), and a Gestapo photo album. 3,071 of the arrest files refer to Jews. The majority of the collection consist of the personal files; organized alphabetically by the name of the respective suspects (family name; first name; birth date; birth place; profession). The letters A to G; and V are missing. The cards give a short content description of the respective file. There is only a small percentage of thematic or administrative files; concerning the pogrom 1938, the deportation of the Würzburg Jews 1941-43 (Sign. Gestapo 18873-18880)), Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Sign. Gestapo 18871), the transport list of Lower Franconian and Nuremberg Jews (Sign. Gestapo 18892), the Gestapo Photo album of the deportees: (Sign. Gestapo 18873-188800, and 119 photos of the deportees (Sign. Gestapo 18880a).
System of Arrangement
Arranged in the following groups: 1. (A) Gestapo Document collection; 2. (B) Gestapo files Reproduction collection, 1963; 3. (C) New digitization by the Wurzburg State Archive. Files of arrested are organized alphabetically. The Photo Album usually contains several photos on one page. This collection was digitized page by page as one archival unit.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
- Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Germany--Würzburg.
- Jews--Germany--Würzburg--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Würzburg.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Würzburg.
- Würzburg (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Identification cards.
- Registers.
- Photographs.
- Photo albums.