Walter and Johanna Rischowsky Collection

The collection consists of 2 binders with documents collected by Walter Rischowsky. The first binder ("Behördliche Anordnungen") is a collection of official regulations between 1941 and 1942, which restricted the life of German Jews. This binder consists primarily of copies of announcements of new regulations distributed by the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland to subordinated agencies and Jewish communities, as well as copies of memos, newspaper clippings, and the like. This binder is sorted by topics. The second binder is a chronological collection of copies of memos of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland about meetings with members of the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) (1940-1941). The Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung was set up in Germany on January 24, 1939 on the models of similar offices in Vienna and Prague. The new office was headed by Heinrich Mueller, chief of section II of the Gestapo. In December 1939 Adolf Eichmann was transferred to Berlin. The office was staffed by the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and SD (Sicherheitsdienst; Security Service) and dealt first with emigration and later with the deportation of Jews to extermination camps.