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Files from the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg District Court in the Charlottenburg quarter) in Berlin, regarding individual Jews 
 
 The Charlottenburg quarter in Berlin was an upper middle class neighborhood in which a high percentage of Jews resided and Jewish institutions were located. The Amtsgericht Charlottenburg files include a large volume of files of various types regarding ...

"In order to create a productive middle class part of an ideal society based on ethno-nationalism, the Antonescu regime (1940-1944) pursued Romanianization - a policy of excluding 'foreigners, ' especially Jews and Roma/Gypsies from the economic sphere through property and business seizure and exclusion from employment. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach and drawing on a variety of official and ...

Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 into a cultured and assimilated middle class Jewish family, and died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 26. 'Life or Theatre?' is the name she gave to a sequence of nearly 800 gouaches she produced between 1940 and 1942. Subtitled 'a play with music', it combines images, texts and musical references to recreate a life scarred both by family tragedy and Nazi ...

Ruth Maier kept a diary throughout her life. During her stay in Norway, she corresponded with her sister in England. The archive consist of 69 letters and eight diaries, covering both her time in Vienna and her time in Norway as well as correspondence between her and other family members. The Ruth Maier Archive documents the thoughts and life of a young Jewish woman facing the Nazi occupation in Austria ...

<div>Mira Hamermesh (Polish: Hamermesz) was born in Lodz, Poland on 15 July&nbsp;</div><div>1923. Mira was the youngest of three children and she was raised in a wealthy middle class Jewish family. Her father, Josef Meir Hamermesz, ran a rubber factory. Both her father and her mother, Fajga Hamermesz (née Lerer), died during the war. Her parents were transported to the Lodz-Litzmannstadt ghetto where ...

"Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars ...

"Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem. Why do they kill? The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men" raised crucial, previously ...

The Drielsmas were an upper middle-class secular Jewish family. Lisette was born in The Hague in April 1942, just a few months before the deportation of Jews from the city began. The family had the good fortune to be placed on the ‘Frederikslijst’, a list of names of Jews who, it was said, would receive preferential treatment due to contributions made to Dutch society. However the preferential treatment ...

<p>The following biographical notes were provided by the depositor, the daughter of Dorothea and granddaughter of Wilhelm Gross and Gertrud Gross-Sachs.</p><div>Wilhelm and Getrud Gross were typical middle class Germans living in Breslau. Wilhelm was professor of engineering and Gertrud was the daughter of wealthy industrialists (her uncle, Karl Gross, had a substantial collection of art works and ...

<p><strong style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: initial;">Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong><br /></p><p>Gerta and Rudolf Pollak were assimilated Jews from Prague, a middle class family, relatively well off and not particularly religious. Their two sons, Felix and Arnost, managed to flee to Great Britain on one of the Kindertransporte. ...

Examines the reactions of German Jewish intellectuals to spreading antisemitism during World War I, which jeopardized the already advanced integration of the Jewish middle class into Wilhelmine society. Pp. 174-194 discuss the radicalization of antisemitism, which was "völkisch"-oriented. Already in 1914, German Jews were accused of shirking their national duty and of unpatriotic attitudes. "Völkisch" ...

The Marie Warschawsky manuscript consists of one bound copy of handwritten testimony and copies of personal documents and photographs relating to the life of Marie Warschawsky (Maroussia, 1881-1964). It relates Warschawsky’s upbringing in Russia among the Jewish upper middle class close to the Tsar’s court, her travel in France and interest in fashion, and her creation of a workshop in Saint Petersbourg ...