Overview
- Description
- Contains 24,780 arrest files, including photos of suspects (mug shots), private photos (for the most part ID photos), and a Gestapo photo album. Of the arrest files, 3,071 files refer to Jews. The majority of the collection consist of the personal files organized alphabetically by the name of the respective suspects (family name; first name; birth date; birth place; profession). The letters A to G; and V are missing. The cards give a short content description of the respective file. There is only a small percentage of thematic or administrative files: concerning the pogrom 1938, the deportation of the Würzburg Jews 1941-43 (Sign. Gestapo 18873-18880), Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Sign. Gestapo 18871), the transport list of Lower Franconian and Nuremberg Jews (Sign. Gestapo 18892), the Gestapo Photo album of the deportees containing 119 photos of the deportees (Sign. Gestapo 18880a).
- Alternate Title
- Gestapo office Würzburg (State Archive Würzburg, Germany)
- Date
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inclusive:
1933-1945
- Reference
- The exhibition catalogue published in 2003: http://www.gda.bayern.de/deport.htm
Yad Vashem photo archives website: http://www6.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/c1/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hPMyNHM09LYwP_YEdnAyMvx7DQwFBTAwNnY6B8JG55E3MCusNB9uFW4W2OX94EKm-AAzga6Pt55Oem6hfkRhhkBqQrAgBq_ZB-/dl2/d1/L0lDU0NTQ2xJSkpna0tDbEUvb0dvUUFBSVFKQUFNWXBDbU1NWmlIQlNGTGdnIS9ZQkpKdzQ1X0Y0NTAtNU40a3N1eWp3ISEvN19JNjJBNkk5MzBHRDRDMDJKRVQ4VTcwMzAwMS9ub3JtYWwvV2tfX18xMC9saXN0UmVzdWx0/
Yad Vashem: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/wurzburg/1939-1943.asp
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Identification cards. Photo albums. Photographs. Registers.
- Extent
-
399,631 digital images : JPEG ; 703 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged by file number.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. To access the State Archives Munich collections researchers must sign a User Declaration. This requirement was stipulated by the Directorate General of the Bavarian State Archives in the cooperative agreement signed with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Conditions on Use
- The permission of the Directorate General of the Bavarian State Archives is required for publication of records on the Internet or any other publicly accessible media.
- Copyright Holder
- Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Jews--Germany--Würzburg--History. Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Würzburg. Antisemitism--Germany--Würzburg. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Würzburg.
- Geographic Name
- Würzburg (Germany)
- Corporate Name
- Germany. Gestapo Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Staatsarchiv Würzburg
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Staatsarchiv Würzburg. The collection duplicated by the Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2020.This collection was digitized in its entirety by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives and the complete set of scans is provided to the USHMM as a free courtesy copy.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-02 11:37:27
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