Abstract

Three sets of documents aimed at, or documenting, the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II. Two of the documents (bound correspondence from Gestapo Headquarters and the list of partisan Jewish doctors) are in German; the broadside is in French.

Scope and Contents Bound list of dozens of war-dated copies of typed transcripts of correspondence between Gestapo and SS Headquarters in Berlin, and Gestapo and SS Headquarters in Osnabruck, covering the period February 12, 1937 to September 15, 1938. The documents are identical in form: in letters signed in type, some by Heinrich Muller, Berlin provides the names of those who have emigrated and have therefore been stripped of their citizenship with instructions that the individuals be arrested should they...

Scope and Contents Broadside issued by Mayor Gaston Chardin of the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne, September 26, 1940, about three months after France collapsed and surrendered to Germany. The broadside reads, in part, "Notice to Israelites. On the order of the Authorities of the occupation, the Israelites must present themselves, carrying identification documents, at the City Hall of Champigny...before 2 October at the latest in order to complete an identify form. Failure to appear within the...

Scope and Contents Two documents evidencing the efforts of Jewish doctors in Slovakia who fought the pro-Nazi government and were killed or murdered in German concentration camps. The typed documents bear no place or date but were likely prepared ion Bratislava late in the war or at the war's end, and were with several manuscript marginal annotations on both, made in the same hand. On the first document, nearly 100 doctors from Bratislava and elsewhere are listed by name, specialty, and location, and all...