Lot 147
Address Book of the Jews of Wiesbaden, 1935 – Printed for the Members of the Nazi Party – Thousands of Names and Addresses of Jewish Residents, Businesses and Organizations
Anschriften- und Branchen-Verzeichnis der Angehörigen des jüdischen Volke in Wiesbaden und seiner Vororte [A list of addresses and places of business of members of the Jewish people in Wiesbaden and its surroundings]. Wiesbaden: Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, 1935. German.
A pocket book that was printed for the members of the Nazi Party in Wiesbaden (southwest Germany), with the names and personal details of more than 2500 Jews. Divided into three sections (alphabetically ordered): a list of names (with the marital status, profession and address of each one of the Jews); a list of businesses and professions (with the name of their owners and their addresses); and a list of Jewish organizations in the town (with details of their members, their positions and general information about the organization and its activities). At the foot of each page is an anti-Semitic idiom, cited from speeches of senior members of the Nazi party or from German tradition.
The city of Wiesbaden, the capital of the State of Hessen, was home to one of the most ancient Jewish communities in Germany. The first Jews arrived there already during the 14th century and in the early 20th century, three communities existed there at the same time: an orthodox community, a reform community and a community of Eastern-European immigrants ("Ostjuden"). Subsequent to the events of Kristallnacht, the synagogues of the three communities were destroyed, hundreds of Jews, residents of the town, were arrested and dozens were killed. Most of the Wiesbaden Jews were sent to extermination camps in Poland until June 1942. For many years, archives in Germany found it hard to make a complete list of the names of the Wiesbaden Jews who perished in the Holocaust, the available sources enabling the generation of partial lists only. In 2001, a staff of the Wiesbaden archive discovered in this book approximately 470 names that were not documented elsewhere.
265 pp, without pages 127-128 (a blank leaf, meant for handwritten comments). Approx. 14 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, a few creases and small tears to the margins. Tears to the front endpaper, reinforced with tape. Handwriting on the last pages and on the back cover. Blemishes and open tears to the cover and spine. The entire cover was covered with tape, for restoration and preservation.
Not in OCLC.
For additional information about the book, see: Personen- und bevölkerungsgeschichtliche Quellen in Kommunalarchiven, edited by Marcus Stumpf and Katharina Tiemann. Munster: LWL-Archivamt für Westfalen, 2015. Pp. 117-124. German.
