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Background

In the 1930s and even in 1940-1941, before major deportations,the Nazi regime was pleased when German Jews emigrated, since thisfacilitated the seizure of their property and the stripping oftheir citizenship.  Jews who had been arrested for variousreasons were often released when they could demonstrate that theyintended to leave the country.  However, the regime also wantedto know as much as possible about each person and lists were developedgiving such information as profession, wealth, correspondence withrelatives outside Germany and passports. Some of these collections of information were found at the end ofWorld War II by the Russians and taken to Moscow. Some years ago permission was given to the USHMM to microfilm thismaterial.

The following collection is a list of 500 German Jews who held passports. The information on each person consists of family, maiden and given names,profession, place of residence, place and date of birth and date and,finally, name of the office which issued the passport, when it wasissued and when it expired.  (Although the given names Sara andIsrael were imposed by the Nazis and have no real basis, they areincluded in the database to fully represent all information from thesource documents.)  All the information in this file has beenentered in the database.

The file does not indicate whether the person actually succeeded inescaping Germany.  Further information on these individuals can beobtained by consulting the May 1939 census (available at LDS FamilyHistory Library) and various memorial books issued by the Bundesarchivand various city and local archives.

Database

This database includes 500 Jewish passport holders and their information. The fields of the database are as follows:

• Surname
• Given Name
• Maiden Name
• Occupation
• Residence
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Passport Number
• Date Issued
• Issuing Authority
• Expiration Date
• Nationality
• Comments

• Given Name: please see the second paragraph in the Background Section for the use ofthe given names Israel or Sara
• Occupation:For help translating occupations from German to English,please see JewishGen's InfoFile at:http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/GermanOccs.htm
• Issuing Authority:The following table will assist with translations for the major issuingauthorities.  In most cases you will find one of the following termsfollowed by the names of a town or city.

• Nationality: The following table will assist with translations for the major nationalities.In most cases you will find one of the following terms followed by the names of a country.

  	German	English
  	D.R	Deutsches Republic (Germany)
  	D.R. Protektorat Böhmen und Maehren (Oder)	German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  	Polen	Poland
  	Polen staatenlos	Poland - stateless
  	Rumänien	Romanian
  	Staatenlos	Stateless
  	Staatlos	Stateless
  	Staatlos (früher [country])	Stateless (Previously [country])
  	Ungeklärt f. [country]	Undetermined previous [country]
  	Ungeklärt staatlos	Unclear stateless

Acknowledgments

The information contained in this database was indexed from the files oftheUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum(USHMM File RG 11.011M reel 17). Special thanks to Shimon Neumann, a JewishGen volunteer, who compiled the list.

In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the websiteand database expertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continuedcontributions to Jewish genealogy.  Particular thanks to theResearch Division headed by Joyce Field and to Nolan Altman, coordinatorof Holocaust files.

Nolan Altmanr
November, 2007

Searching the Database

This database is searchable viaJewishGen's Holocaust Database and theJewishGen Germany Database.

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Last Update: 28 Mar 2008 by MFK