GB 1556 WL 606 - Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland: correspondence with The Council for German Jewry (microfilm)

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GB 1556 WL 606 1936-1940 Collection level 7 files Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland

The Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland was founded in 1933 and became the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden in 1935, and later the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland in 1939. It came into being shortly after the Nazi seizure of power as the successor to the Reichsvertretung der jüdischen Landesverbände, a loose federation of Jewish organisations in Germany. Its main objective was to deal with the serious problems facing German Jewry from the new, antisemitic regime.

Rabbi Leo Baeck was elected president, and the driving force in the organisation was its chief executive officer, Otto Hirsch. The organisation's activities were to include all aspects of the internal life of the Jews of Germany, and it was to act as their representative before the authorities as well as Jewish organisations abroad. Its main spheres of operation, conducted through the Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau (Central Committee of German Jews for aid and reconstruction) were education, vocational training, support for the needy, economic assistance, and emigration.

Former members of the Reichsvereinigung der juden in Deutschland.

Correspondence between the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland and the Council of German Jewry, 1936-1940, including on the constitution and finances of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland and correspondence regarding possibility of emigration of Jews to Kenya and the Richborough Camp (Kitchener camp for refugees), Kent.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

German and English

Microfilm.

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

602, 604, 605

German Federal Archives: R1850.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Former members of the Reichsvereinigung der juden in Deutschland.

Correspondence between the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland and the Council of German Jewry, 1936-1940, including on the constitution and finances of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland and correspondence regarding possibility of emigration of Jews to Kenya and the Richborough Camp (Kitchener camp for refugees), Kent.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

• Engels

• Latijn

German and English

602, 604, 605

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

German Federal Archives: R1850.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels