Archival tree of the Arolsen Archives

0 - Global Finding Aids

1 - Incarceration Documents

1.1 - Camps and Ghettos

1.2 - Miscellaneous

1.2.1 - Deportations and Transports

1.2.1.1 - Deportations

20840

1.2.1.2 - AJDC Berlin Card File (Deportations)

44627

1.2.1.3 - Reference Lists of Transports

527

1.2.1.4 - Card File of Berlin Transports to the East (Osttransporte) Waves 1-7

5040

1.2.1.5 - Registration and Persecution

15616

1.2.2 - Prisons

1.2.3 - Gestapo

1.2.4 - Various Organizations

1.2.5 - Post-war Compilations

1.2.6 - Archival References

1.2.7 - Persecution actions especially outside of the German Reich

1.2.8 - Court martial proceedings

1.2.9 - Effects preserved at the ITS

2 - Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939 - 1947)

3 - Registrations and Files of Displaced Persons, Children and Missing Persons

4 - Special NSDAP organizations and actions

5 - Death Marches, identification of unkown dead and Nazi trials

6 - Records of the ITS and its predecessors

7 - Archival records of microforms (new material / document acquisition)

8 - Collections of private persons and small archives

1 Incarceration Documents / 1.2 Miscellaneous / 1.2.1 Deportations and Transports /

Registration and Persecution

Reference Code

DE ITS 1.2.1.5

Number of documents

15616

Scope and content

The bulk of sub-collection 1.2.1.5 (see archival history), which was created in 2020, consists of registration documents (registration cards or excerpts from registration books) and lists of names of Jews who resided in German cities between the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s.

The following documents are also included:
I) Correspondence, applications, certificates, prohibitions and lists concerning the residence, emigration, arrest and deportation of Jews. These include correspondence from various state police departments (Stapostellen) as well as letters from the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (see ref. code 10010584).

II) Notifications concerning the verification of naturalizations and expatriation of Jews.

III) Correspondence and forms concerning the economic circumstances of Jews and the confiscation of their property / expropriation.

IV) Lists and correspondence concerning contact with Jews of Polish nationality. Among other things, the deportation of this group of people to the German-Polish border in the context of the so-called Polenaktion on October 28 and 29, 1938, is documented (see Stettin, ref. code 10008459; Chemnitz, ref. code 10008317).

In some cases the documents mentioned under I-IV are part of personal files of various police administrations (in extracts), which may also contain extracts from criminal records as well as photographs of the persons concerned.

In a few cases included are:
V) Post-war constellations and research into the fate of persons persecuted as Jews.

VI) Correspondence regarding the release of male Jews from a concentration camp in 1938/1939 (arrests in the context of the November pogroms), (see Schwiebus, ref code. 10008071; Olbernhau, ref. code 10010036).

VII) In the case of Bremen, Mosbach, Salzwedel: documents documenting the stay, registration or transfer to a concentration camp of persons persecuted as "gypsies".

VIII) In the case of Mainz, Gera and Leipzig: lists of graves of Jews buried in the cities.

In the unit concerning Wittenberge, a list and correspondence on Polish Jewish forced laborers of the company Phrix-Werk/Kurmärkische Zellwolle und Zellulose AG (1942-1943) are included (cf. ref. code. 10010378).