Gertrude Schneider Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3348

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The centerpiece of this collection is Gertrude Schneider's manuscript describing daily life in the ghetto of Riga, including sections on education, Zionist activity, cultural activity, resistance, and the liquidation of the ghetto. Supplementary research materials include lists of Jews deported from Vienna and transcriptions of the trials of Viktor Bernhard Arajs and Kurt Maywald.

The trial transcript for Maywald relates specifically to his participation in mass shootings of Jewish prisoners in the vicinity of Riga in 1941. Arajs was tried and convicted for much more extensive participation in the extermination of Jews in Riga.

In the final folders are photocopies of lists of Jews deported from Vienna to Łódz.

Dates

Creation: 1941-1980

Creator

Schneider, Gertrude (Person)

Language of Materials

This collection is in German and English.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Use Restrictions

According to the wishes of author Gertrude Schneider, no photocopies are to be made of the manuscript in folder 1.

For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Extent

8 Folders

Additional Description

Abstract

Bibliography

The manuscript was published as Journey into terror. The story of the Riga ghetto . A copy is available in the LBI Library, call number D 810 J4 S326.