Metadata: Collection 1900-1945
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- City Archive of Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Postal address:
- Im Kloster 3, 18311 Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Phone number:
- +49 3821-812814
- Reference number:
- II
- Title:
- Collection 1900-1945
- Title (official language):
- Bestand 1900-1945
- Creator/accumulator:
- City of Ribnitz
- Date(s):
- 1938/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 6 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection (6 folders) includes the following records that are of particular interest to Jewish history: files on the passport and registration regulations for Jews, e.g. Jews from Poland; copies of official orders; notices of non-wearing of the so-called Jewish star; regulations for Jews in public space. In detail:
II- 68 “Passwesen” (passport matters) (1939-1944), mainly contains circulars and transcripts (Gestapo) on passport matters; orders, decrees; emigration of Jews.
II-81 “Meldewesen” (registration) (1925-1944), contains, among other things, a residence ban for Polish Jews (p. 35); Passports (Jewish persons); Circulars on the obligation to register for foreigners (Jews from Poland); Correspondence between the Mayor and the Gestapo of Schwerin concerning the emigration of a Jewish resident (1937) (p. 27).
II-103 "Juden Allgemein” (Jews General) (1938-1945), contains copies and circulars on "Judensperre am Meeresstrand" (Ban of Jews at the beach); Jewish spa guests in spas and health resorts (1937), list of Jewish communities and congregations in Schwerin and other places in Mecklenburg, in northwestern Germany; list of Jewish residents (without date) with job details and place of birth; notification of the levelling of the Jewish cemetery in Ribnitz 1938; marking of Jewish shops; request to register all Jewish residents and their real estate.
II-104 "Juden Sonstiges” (Jews Miscellaneous) (1941-1943) contains charges against a Jewish woman for not wearing the "Jewish Star"; list of Jewish residents who emigrated since 1933; a Jewish woman moves to a "Judenhaus".
II-412 Name changes (1938-1939), with circulars concerning the name addition for Jewish names; letters of individual Jewish inhabitants confirming that they have added the obligatory name.
II-502 “Verzeichnis der jüdischen Gewerbetriebe” (directory of Jewish businesses) (1938-1944) with copies of orders; delivery documents; lists and directories of trades in Jewish possession; circulars on "Aryanisation"; "De-Jewification"; expropriation of Jewish property; tenancies of Jews; correspondence on the "Jewish property levy"; list of house properties in Jewish possession; correspondence on the religious affiliation of a merchant; various baptismal certificates; copy of marriage certificate; death certificates.
The reworked version of the citizen books (3 volumes 1759-1919 on paid contributions to the fire, school and arms fund) is available in printed form.
- Archival history:
- The holdings of the town of Ribnitz from the second third of the 18th century to the present day are well preserved. Until 1994 they were stored in the town hall and are now housed in the town archives. The historical archive of the town of Damgarten was almost completely destroyed by a fire in the town hall in 1928. The following archives were lost in the last months of the war in 1945, so that today almost exclusively documents created between 1945 and 1950 are available. In addition to collections about personalities from the city's history, associations and companies, the Ribnitz-Damgarten municipal archives also include cadastral maps, pictures and postcards, as well as directories of pupils from the Ribnitz and Damgarten schools. The building file collection of the Ribnitz city centre offers an insight into the city's architectural history.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- With the reform of civil status law, parts of the registers of births, marriages and deaths kept since 1874 and 1876 respectively were archived and thus accessible for use. The registers of the registry offices Ribnitz, Damgarten, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Tempel, Semlow, Daskow, Schlemmin and Ahrenshagen are stored in the archive. In the city minute books, land and house purchase by Jewish inhabitants are documented, they form an additional source.
- Access points: locations:
- Ahrenshoop
- Bad Sülze
- Bützow
- Güstrow
- Hirschburg
- Mecklenburg
- Neustrelitz
- Ribnitz
- Rostock
- Schwerin
- Tessin
- Teterow
- Wismar
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Cemeteries
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Yellow star
- Hospitality industry
- Jewish community
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- Individual sheets are partly ordered chronologically and partly by file process.
- Finding aids:
- An overview on index cards and digitally (using Augias) are available at the archive. Individual documents about the history of Jews in Ribnitz-Damgarten are available at the “Ribnitz-Damgarten, historisch” website.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://rdg-historisch.de
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
