Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\37 frames 289-660 <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>Original and mimeographed documents of the <em>Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland. Also included within 602/8 is a file of transcribed correspondence regarding Gross-Breesen, a non-zionist training camp set up by the <em>Reichsvertretung</em> to prepare young people for life abroad (not Palestine).</em></p><p>The papers include committee minutes, reports, memoranda, circulars and correspondence detailing all aspects of the organisations activities.</p> The <em>Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden</em>, began as the <em>Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland</em> in 1935, and became the <em>Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland in</em> 1939. It came into being shortly after the Nazi seizure of power as the first body representative of all German Jewry, the main objective of which, was to deal with the serious problems facing Germany Jewry from the new, antisemitic regime. Prior to that date there existed a loose federation of Jewish organisations in Germany, the <em>Landesverbände</em>. Open