Correspondence, mainly with JRSO office Berlin, regarding the exchange of source material and the assistance with restitution related enquiries. The latter includes among various others information requests on the expropriation of Austrian Jews, the destinations of extermination transports from Berlin, past political affiliations of several German individuals, and the history of restitution laws. Contained are letters to and by Benjamin Ferencz (prosecutor Nuremberg Trial), copies of court documents related with restitution and the fight of Antisemitism, a provisional scheme for an exhibition about past and present of Berlin Jewry, JRSO minutes, transcripts from newspaper articles, and a statement of Bishop Otto Dibelius on the trial of chemist and manager Gerhard Peters.
Correspondence with Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation (JRSO)
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The Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation (JRSO) was founded by various American and international Jewish organisations in New York in 1947. Its remit was to institute proceedings in the American Zone of occupied Germany for the restitution of heirless property of persons murdered and organisations dissolved under the Nazi regime.