Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959

Collection of H. G. Adler, 1937-1959
 
 H. G. Adler was born in Prague in 1910; he was a poet, historian, sociologist and multidisciplinary researcher; he was an inmate in Niederorschel, Langenstein-Zwieberge, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps; after the war he wrote important books regarding Theresienstadt and regarding totalitarian regimes; he died in London in 1988;
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 List of senior officials who served in Nazi organizations and institutions;
 Subjects related to the handling of the "Jewish Problem" that were discussed by Nazi organizations, including among others the discussions held at the Wannsee Conference, such as anti-Jewish propaganda, emigration, the Madagascar Plan, the "Final Solution", and the handling of the Gypsies, dated, 1940-1946;
 Documents from the Gestapo in Wuerzburg, regarding the deportation and extermination of Jews, and documents from the trial held in Wuerzburg against members of the Gestapo during 1957-1959 and documents from 1942-1948;
 Documents regarding the attitude of the Nazi leadership toward the Mischlinge, dated, 1942-1947;
 Questionnaire of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam, filled out by an emigrant from Berlin, Dr. Fritz Silten, for the purpose of submitting an application for a visa to emigrate to Argentina, 1942;
 Catalogue of Nuremberg documents, published in January 1961 as an accompanying outcome of research that was carried out in the Vienna Library under the auspices of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, 1945-1957;
 Documents of the Gestapo and other organizations, regarding the emigration of Jews, the exchange of Jews, the Transfer Agreement and the Evian Conference, 1937-1942;
 Lists with names of the accused in trials held against Nazi war criminals, and names of witnesses at those trials, 1945-1957;
 Documents related to the emigration of Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1943;
 Orders by the Gestapo regarding Entrechtung, the revocation of the legal rights of the Jews of Germany, 1938-1942;
 Correspondence of the Gestapo, regarding anti-Jewish decrees in Germany, 1938-1940;
 Lists with the names of 17 persons who participated in a discussion held in Berlin regarding the definition of a "Jew", 29/01/1942;
 The stamp mark of the Jewish Agency in Prague appears on some of the files.