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Record Series Number: RG-01.16/RG-01.16
Created by: Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone of Occupation in Germany, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworski Pratt) Polish-Jewish lawyer the former prisoner of camps and ghettoi
Volume: 2.0 Boxes
Biographical Note for Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone of Occupation in Germany :
The Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews focused on establishing a dialogue with the new Polish authorities, in order to resolve the following issues:
1. Restoration of ownership of the Jewish estates remaining in Poland. Enabling the processes of succession.
2. Arguing about the fixed fees for the claim process that shall not be corollary of of the property value.
3. Prolonging the deadline for submitting claims for the war damages.
4. Easing the issuance of the duplicates from the prewar wedding acts and birth certificates. To ease this process, it was proposed that the testimonies of two witnesses would suffice as a proof. Having the testimonies of two witnesses, the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany may officially reinstate the prewar Polish certificate attaching the stamp of their own. This provisional document would be regarded sufficient for the Office of Civil Status in Poland. This Office would eventually issue and deliver a proper document to the Central Committee in Germany.
5. The Central Committee discussed numerous complaints submitted by the Polish citizens in German about understaffed Polish Consulates in Germany resultant in inefficient business.
6. The Central discussed difficulties of re-issuance of Polish passports to the Polish citizens. It was requested to ease this process on the part of the Polish Consulate in Frankfurt. The Central Committee pointed out that the Polish Consulate requires submitting of 17 supporting documents in order to obtain a new Polish passport.
Subject Index
Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Occupation Zone of Germany
Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US zone of occupation in Germany, activities
Collaboration between the members of Jewish councils and German administration
Collaboration in the Lodz ghetto
Collaboration of Jewish Administration in the Holocaust
Collaboration of Jewish Councils (Judenraete) in German-occupied Poland, 1939 -- 1945
Collaboration of Jewish Order Police in the ghettos with German administration
Collaboration of Jewish order police with German police and security forces in the ghettos
Culpability of Jewish collaborators with Nazi-German regime, Jewish courts of Honor, postwar Germany
Dawid Gertler, chief of Special Department (Sonderabteilung), Jewish Council, Lodz ghetto
Dawid Gertler, chief of the Special Department (Sonderabteilung) of the Jewish ghetto police
Dawid Gertler, corruption and malicious activity, wartime
Dawid Gertler, discourse and narrative, collaboration with German administration
Dawid Gertler, discourse in regard to collaboration with German administration in Warsaw ghetto
Dawid Gertler, discourse in regard to his collaboration with German administration in Lodz ghetto
Dawid Gertler, Jewish collaborator with Nazi German regime in occupied Poland
Dawid Gertler, preferential treatment of his in Nazi-German concentration camps
Documents in German language
Documents in Polish language
Documents in Yiddish language
Estera Epstein, Polish-educated lawyer, working for the Legal Department, Court of Honor, postwar
Henryk Gliksman, deliberation of alleged collaboration, Jewish courts of honor
Henryk Gliksman, discourse and narrative, alleged collaboration, Jewish courts of honor
Henryk Gliksman, discourse of alleged collaboration with German administration in Rakow labor camp
Henryk Gliksman, litigation of alleged collaboration with German administration
Jewish courts of honor
Jewish courts of honor, Munich (Germany), Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Legal defense in the Jewish courts of Honor
Legal defense to Jewish collaborators, Estera Epstein (Anna Przeworska Pratt)
Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany
Narratives in German language
Narratives in Polish language
narratives in Yiddish
Representation and defense of alleged Jewish collaborators, Jewish courts of Honor, postwar Germany
Languages of Materials
Yiddish [yid]
Polish [pol]
German [ger]