The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994

The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994 

The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994 

Committee request Correspondence Document Financial accounts Indictment Inventory list Laws and decrees Legal documentation Letter Letter of testimony Medical documentation Newspaper Notepad Passport Personal documents Protocol Questionnaire Reports Sentence 

Documentation of K. F. Mannheimer, a lawyer for claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors in Germany and in Amsterdam; documentation dated, 1897-1978 K. F. Mannheimer, a Jewish lawyer, was born in Germany in 1897; he was married to B. A. E. Weisel in a mixed marriage; following the Nazi rise to power, Mannheimer was forced to cease his work as a lawyer in Berlin; he emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife, who was also a lawyer, in 1936; in the Netherlands, Mannheimer served as a lawyer, prosecutor, translator and advisor to students, until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands which put an end to his career; revocation of the German citizenship of Mannheimer; Mannheimer was sent [deported] to Westerbork camp in 1943; his release because of his mixed marriage; his life in hiding in his home until the end of the war; most of Mannheimer's family members perished during the Holocaust; special legislation in the Netherlands enabled Mannheimer and another 19 refugees to receive Dutch citizenship; he returned to work as a lawyer in Amsterdam in 1949; he worked now on behalf of Holocaust survivors and their inheritors, as an expert in claims for compensation from the Germans, in the context of Wiedergutmachung; following Mannheimer's death in 1974, Elfriede Mannheimer-Weisel [his widow] continued his legal work; following the death of Elfriede Mannheimer-Weisel in 1994, all of the documents were handed over to NIOD; The collection includes personal documentation of the Mannheimer couple from 1897-1944, and letters from the Joodsche Raad van Amsterdam; text of the Special Immigration Law, 1949; most of the collection pertains to compensation claims files from 1949-1978, including: Correspondence with lawyers and with the Entschädigungsamt in Berlin; Questionnaires of the Entschädigungsamt, regarding Wiedergutmachung; Questionnaires of the Centraal Afwikkelingsbureau Duitse Schade Uitkeringen and JOKOS in Amsterdam, regarding household contents confiscated from Jews in the Netherlands; Testimonies regarding the persecution of Jews; Medical reports regarding damage to the health of persecuted people; Testimonies regarding the marking of Jews; Financial reports and inventory lists attesting to confiscated Jewish property; Legal documentation, protocols and verdicts of the Regierungspraesident in Germany after the war, regarding compensation; Confirmations by the Nederlandse Rode Kruis (Dutch Red Cross), regarding the persecution of Jews and regarding those who perished; Confirmations by the Population Registry, regarding emigration; Confirmations by Jewish religious institutions, regarding [the] Jewish origin of persecuted people; Legal documentation regarding inheritances and regarding claims for compensation of Holocaust survivors in the Netherlands who possessed German citizenship or who resided in Germany in the past; Newspaper clippings from the postwar period, regarding compensation and appeals to the Bundesversicherungsanstalt concerning insurance monies of Holocaust survivors who emigrated from Germany to the Netherlands.