Metadata: Jewish Question
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Bremen State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Bremen
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 28203 Bremen
- Phone number:
- +49 421 361 6221
- Web address:
- https://www.staatsarchiv.bremen.de/
- Reference number:
- 3-J.5
- Title:
- Jewish Question
- Title (official language):
- Judenfrage
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bremen Senate
- Date(s):
- 1933/1958
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.5 linear metres (263 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains material about the exclusion of Jewish citizens from public administration and from economic life. There are files containing sets of general legislation material and instructions, as well as files concerning individual cases, e.g. the politico-economic treatment of individual businesses and companies owned by Jews. The collection also contains documents about emigration of Jews, both general instructional material and individual cases, and documents about the exclusion of Jews from public life, for example the ban from public places, swimming pools, parks etc.
The collection precisely documents the complete deprivation of rights up until 1941, the loss of citizenship and even deportations. The collection was continued after 1945, collecting material about the return of Jewish emigrants, questions of restitution, the reestablishment of congregations and the clarification of individual fates.
- Archival history:
- Collection 3-J.5 was established by the Bremen senate, more specifically the deputation of inner affairs, shortly after the establishment of National Socialist rule. The collection precisely documents the antisemitic policies of National Socialist Germany as executed in Bremen, by chronologically collecting material about political decisions, public discussions etc. The collection contains 263 files with the first 231 of them deriving from the time of National Socialism. The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Access points: locations:
- Bremen
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged thematically in files, which are in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen