PMJ Holocaust Document Collection

Thousands of historical sources in English translation on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 12 out now.

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The latest volume in our series is now available! The present volume, the second of three volumes focusing on the preparation, planning, and implementation of the systematic mass murder of Jews in occupied Poland, covers events in the General Government from summer 1941 to 1945.

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Vol. 1, Doc. 212: Editorial regarding the absurdity of the definition of race according to the Nuremberg Laws in the Pariser Tageblatt, 25 November 1935, by Dr Ernst Frankenstein.

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Vol. 9, Doc. 61: On 5 April 1942 Szlojme Winer, an escapee from Kulmhof (Chelmno) extermination
camp, informs Hersh Vaser of the murder of the Jews in Belzec.

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Vol. 1, Doc. 6: Diary entry: Walter Gyssling describes riots and abuses in Munich on 9/10 March 1933.

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Vol. 5, Doc. 218 and 224: In April 1942 Alfred Oppenheimer, the Jewish elder in Luxembourg, describes his concerns about the impending situation: the deportation of the Jews from Western European countries.

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Vol. 3, Doc. 131: On 3 January 1941 Kurt Rathenau from Berlin writes to his brother Fritz in a personal letter about what the censorship of letters means to him.

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Vol. 4, Doc. 65: On 19 December 1939 The Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA) discussesd the establishment of a ‘Jewish reservation’ in Poland.

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Vol. 5, Doc. 303: On 15 December 1941 Isaac Schoenberg writes a letter to his fiancée, Chana Zylbermann, describing his life in the Pithiviers campss.

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Vol. 3, Doc. 129: An emigrant describes the supply situation, the public mood, and conditions for the Jews in the Reich during the autumn and winter of 1940.

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Vol. 1, Doc. 313: On 29 November 1937 the Jewish Communityww of Merzig writes to the Reich commissioner for the Saarland regarding the repair of the damaged synagogue.

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Vol. 3, Doc. 318: In her diary entry for 19 September 1941, Eva Roubíčková records the reactions to her wearing the yellow star.

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Vol. 12, Doc. 279. 1/2

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Vol. 12, Doc. 278. In 1942 the parents of historian Saul Friedländer write an acquaintance in France for help.

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Vol. 12, Doc. 261:

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This week our team introduced PMJ to teachers from around Europe at an @EHRIproject seminar at the @JewishMuseumPRG. In a hands-on workshop the teachers looked at a sample of PMJ docs about the yellow star.
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