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Title: Kurt Horwitz Papers, 1933-1946

Predominant Dates:1933 -- 1939

ID: RG-54/RG-54

Primary Creator: Kurt Horowitz (1933 -- 1946)

Other Creators: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Subjects: Amsterdam (Netherlands), anti-Jewish measures and legislations, the Netherlands, Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp), Bithoven (Utrecht, Netherlands), Collaboration of Jewish Administration in the Holocaust, Collaboration of the Jood Vaad (the Jewish Council) in the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Concentration camps, German, correspondence to and from concentration camps, Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945), Dachau (Concentration camp), Deportation of Jews from Amsterdam to Westerbork transit camp, Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to the German concentration camps in Poland, Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to the Theresienstadt ghetto, Deportation to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from Westerbork transit camp, Documents in German language, German invasion of the Netherlands, May 1940, Germany (1933 -- 1939), Germany (1939--1945), Identification documents, German issued, 1933 -- 1945, Impression of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Impression of the Theresienstadt ghetto, Jewish administration of the Westerbork Transit Camp, Jewish Food Administration of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Jews in Amsterdam under the Nazi-German regime, 1940 -- 1945, Jood Vaad, the Jewish Council of the Netherlands, Literary forms narrated by the Jewish prisoners of Bergen-Belsen, Literary forms narrated in the concentration camps, Living conditions in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Living conditions in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Narratives in German language, Nazi-German deception, Nazi anti-Jewish measures, actions and legislations, Normal conditions of living in the Westerbork Transit Camp, Poetry, narrated in the concentration camps, Poetry narrated in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, The Hague (Netherlands), The Netherlands (1940--1945), Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp)

Forms of Material: Personal memoirs and recollections

Languages: German, English

Abstract

The Collection of Abraham Horwitz and Kurt Horwitz comprises personal memoir of Abraham Horwitz and a number of Nazi-German official documents, 1933 -- 1946 related to Kurt Horwitz

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This Collection reflects on the anti-Jewish measures in Germany in 1933 -- 1939

Collection Historical Note

Document relates to Kurt Horwitz personal experience in Nazi Germany, 1933 -- 1939, the Netheralnds in1942 -1945 and in the Nazi-German occupied and controlled territories of Europe in 1939 -- 1945

Subject/Index Terms

Amsterdam (Netherlands)
anti-Jewish measures and legislations, the Netherlands
Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp)
Bithoven (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Collaboration of Jewish Administration in the Holocaust
Collaboration of the Jood Vaad (the Jewish Council) in the Holocaust in the Netherlands
Concentration camps, German
correspondence to and from concentration camps
Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945)
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Deportation of Jews from Amsterdam to Westerbork transit camp
Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to the German concentration camps in Poland
Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to the Theresienstadt ghetto
Deportation to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from Westerbork transit camp
Documents in German language
German invasion of the Netherlands, May 1940
Germany (1933 -- 1939)
Germany (1939--1945)
Identification documents, German issued, 1933 -- 1945
Impression of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Impression of the Theresienstadt ghetto
Jewish administration of the Westerbork Transit Camp
Jewish Food Administration of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
Jews in Amsterdam under the Nazi-German regime, 1940 -- 1945
Jood Vaad, the Jewish Council of the Netherlands
Literary forms narrated by the Jewish prisoners of Bergen-Belsen
Literary forms narrated in the concentration camps
Living conditions in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Living conditions in the Theresienstadt ghetto
Narratives in German language
Nazi-German deception
Nazi anti-Jewish measures, actions and legislations
Normal conditions of living in the Westerbork Transit Camp
Poetry, narrated in the concentration camps
Poetry narrated in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
The Hague (Netherlands)
The Netherlands (1940--1945)
Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp)

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-54.01, Abraham Horwitz, Memoir, 1, 1940 -- 1942

Personal memoir and recollection

Subject/Index Terms:: Abraham Horwitz, prisoner of Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and the Theresienstadt; Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz; Bithoven (Utrecht, Netherlands); The Netherlands (1940--1945); German invasion of the Netherlands, May 1940; anti-Jewish measures and legislations; anti-Jewish measures and legislations, the Netherlands; Jood Vaad, the Jewish Council of the Netherlands; Collaboration of the Jood Vaad (the Jewish Council) in the Holocaust in the Netherlands; Jews in Amsterdam under the Nazi-German regime, 1940 -- 1945; Amsterdam (Netherlands); Collaboration of Jewish Administration in the Holocaust; Narratives in German language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-54.02, Abraham Horwitz, Memoir, 2, 1940 -- 1942

Abraham Horwitz, personal memoir and recollections, wartime, 1940 -- 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Deportation of Jews from Amsterdam to Westerbork transit camp; Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); Jewish administration of the Westerbork Transit Camp; collaboration in the Holocaust; Collaboration of Jewish Administration in the Holocaust; Collaboration of the Jewish administration of the Westerbork transit camp in the Holocaust; Normal conditions of living in the Westerbork Transit Camp; Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to the German concentration camps in Poland; Narratives in German language; Documents in German language; The Netherlands (1940--1945); Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-54.03, Abraham Horwitz, Memoir, 3, 1940 -- 1944

Abraham Horwitz, personal memoir and recollections, postwar. The narrative is about the wartime in the Netherlands, Germany and Czechoslovakia

Subject/Index Terms:: Nazi-German deception; Deportation from Westerbork transit camp, 1940-1945; Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to the German concentration camps in Poland; Deportations from the Westerbork transit camp to concentration camps in Germany; Deportation to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from Westerbork transit camp; Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Abraham Horwitz, prisoner of Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and the Theresienstadt; Impression of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Living conditions in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Literary forms narrated in the concentration camps; Literary forms narrated by the Jewish prisoners of Bergen-Belsen; Poetry, narrated in the concentration camps; Poetry narrated in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Germany (1939--1945); Narratives in German language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-54.04, Abraham Horwitz ,Memoir, 4, 1942 -- 1945

Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz, 1942 -- 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Abraham Horwitz, prisoner of Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and the Theresienstadt; Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz; Transfer to the Theresienstadt Ghetto; Transfer to Theresienstadt Ghetto from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Impression of the Theresienstadt ghetto; Jewish Food Administration of the Theresienstadt Ghetto; Collaboration of Jewish Administration in the Holocaust; Collaboration of the Jewish administration in the Theresienstadt ghetto; The role of money and connections in the survival during the Second World War; The system of protection in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942 -- 1945; The role of protection, connections and money in the survival in the Holocaust; Abraham Horwitz and his wife, personal accommodations in the Theresienstadt ghetto; Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945); Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia: Ghetto); Narratives in German language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-54.05, Abraham Horwitz, Memoir, 5, 1942 -- 1945

Personal memoir and recollections, 1942 -- 1945, Abraham Horwitz

Subject/Index Terms:: Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz; Abraham Horwitz, prisoner of Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and the Theresienstadt; Living conditions in the Theresienstadt ghetto; The role of protection, connections and money in the survival in the Holocaust; The system of protection in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942 -- 1945; Social and cultural life in the Theresienstadt ghetto; Abraham Horwitz and his wife, personal accommodations in the Theresienstadt ghetto; Nazi-German deception; Nazi German deception with regard to the Theresienstadt ghetto; Nazi propagandisitc and deceptive film about the Theresienstadt ghetto; Categories of ghetto inhabitants; Categories of ghetto inhabitants, Theresienstadt ghetto; Inequality in the ghettos; Inequality in the ghettos, Theresienstadt ghetto; Work assignments in the ghettos; Work assignments in the ghettos, Theresienstadt ghetto; Means of adaptation and survival in the ghettos; survival tactics; Survival tactics, Theresienstadt ghetto; Narratives in German language; Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-54.06, Abraham Horwitz, Memoir, 6, 1942 -- 1945

Personal memoir and recollections, 1942 -- 1945, Abraham Horwitz

Subject/Index Terms:: Abraham Horwitz, prisoner of Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and the Theresienstadt; Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz; Family life in the ghettos; Postal service in the ghettos; Family life in the ghettos, Theresienstadt ghetto; Postal service in the Theresienstadt ghetto; Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945); Narratives in German language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-54.07, Abraham Horwitz. Memoir, 7, 1942 -- 1946

Personal memoir and recollection, 1942 -- 1946, written in the postwar time, Abraham Horwitz

Subject/Index Terms:: Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz; Postwar recollections of the Holocaust; Living conditions in ghettos; Living conditions in the Theresienstadt ghetto; Awaiting liberation, ghettos and camps; Awaiting liberation, Theresienstadt ghetto; Geopolitical situation in Europe, 1945; Capitulation of Nazi Germany, May 1945; Liberation of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, May 1945; Post-liberation adaptation; Post-liberation arrangements in the Theresienstadt ghetto, May 1945; Post-liberation return to the home-countries, 1945; Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945); The Netherlands (1940--1945); The Netherlands (1945--Present); Bithoven (Utrecht, Netherlands); Religious component in the Holocaust-related memoirs; Religious component in the Holocaust-related memoirs, Abraham Horwitz; Narratives in German language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-54.08, Abraham Horwitz memoir, 1st page, 1940 -- 1942

Personal memoir and recollections, Holocaust-related memoirs written in the postwar time, 1946, Abraham Horwitz

Subject/Index Terms:: Personal memoirs and recollections; Personal memoirs and recollections, Abraham Horwitz; The Netherlands (1940--1945); Germany (1939--1945); Czechoslovakia (1939 -- 1945); The Netherlands (1945--Present); Bithoven (Utrecht, Netherlands); Amsterdam (Netherlands); Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia: Ghetto); Postwar recollections of the Holocaust; Postwar memoirs of the Holocaust; Postwar memoirs of the Holocaust, Abraham Horwitz; Narratives in German language; Documents in German language

Creators:: Abraham Horwitz (1940 -- 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-54.09, Kurt Horwitz, German-Jewish passport, July 1939

German-Jewish Passport issued to Kurt Horwitz in July 1939.

Subject/Index Terms:: Kurt Horwitz, Jewish prisoner of the German penal system; Kurt Horwitz, Jewish prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp; Passports, German; Passports, German-Jewish; The second name Israel as mandatory for Jews in Nazi Germany; Nazi racial identification of Jews by the means of adding names Israel or Sara; Bremen (Germany); Documents issued by Nazi-German Police and Security forces, 1933 -- 1945; German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945; Documents issued by Nazi-German civil and municipal authorities, 1939 -- 1945; Identification documents, German issued, 1933 -- 1945; Visas, stamped in Nazi-German passports; Visas to Bolivia, 1933 -- 1945; Visas to China, 1933 -- 1945; Visas to China, 1939 -- 1940, Kurt Horwitz; Postwar visas; Postwar visas to Bolivia; Postwar visa to Bolivia, 1947, Kurt Horwitz, 1947; Germany (1933 -- 1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Nazi-German authorities (1933 -- 1945); German police authorities in Bremen (1939)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-54.10, Kurt Horwitz, kennkarte, 1939

Kennkarte (Identification Card), issued by the police German authorities of Bremen to Kurt Horwitz in 1939

Subject/Index Terms:: Kurt Horwitz, Jewish prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp; Kurt Horwitz, Jewish prisoner of the German penal system; Identification documents, German issued, 1933 -- 1945; Kennkarte (German personal Identification Card); Bremen (Germany); Kurt Horwitz, photographs; Germany (1933 -- 1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Nazi-German authorities (1933 -- 1945); German police authorities in Bremen (1939); Police and municipal authorities of Bremen (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-54.11, Kurt Horwitz, personal military card, exempt from servise as a Jew, April 1939

This is a German military personal identification card. It comprises the code of a military profession and personal information. The nationality (Jude) was added to the card for this rubric had not been foreseen. The card issued to Kurt Horwitz by the German military authority in Weimar in April 1939.

Subject/Index Terms:: Kurt Horwitz, Jewish prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp; Kurt Horwitz, Jewish prisoner of the German penal system; Nazi-German military office for registration and conscription; All-German military conscription laws; Nazi-German laws exempting Jews from military service; Discrimination laws and provisions against the Jews in Germany, 1933 -- 1939; Personal military identification documents, Germany; Personal military identification German documents, Kurt Horwitz; German individual military registration and identification documents; German personal military registration and identification documents, Kurt Horwitz; Weimar (Germany); Germany (1933 -- 1939); Germany (1939--1945); Documents in German language

Creators:: Nazi-German military authorities (1939); Nazi-German military office for registration and conscription (1939)