THE GERMAN MINORITY CENSUS OF 1939 : AN INTRODUCTION AND REGISTER / compiled by Thomas Kent Edlund. (ID: 31345)
Authorship or Source:
Edlund, Thomas Kent.
Year:
1996
Title or Main Description:
THE GERMAN MINORITY CENSUS OF 1939 : AN INTRODUCTION AND REGISTER / compiled by Thomas Kent Edlund.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Teaneck, NJ : Avotaynu
Description:
viii, 56 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Type of Work:
Book
Alternate or Series Title:
- (Avotaynu monograph series)
- Reichssippenamt Volkszählung vom 17.05.1938 durchgeführt 1939.
- Reichssippenamt Volkszälung vom 17.05.1938 durchgefürt 1939. [sic]
- The German minority census of 1938-1939.
ISBN or ISSN:
1886223009 (soft cover)
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
USHMM Library: Reference Z7553.C3 E34 1996.
Provenance:
- Source Institution: LDS, Salt Lake City, Institutional Call Number-- 0624225.
- Concerning the collection which this work indexes: The Reichssippenamt created, circulated, and collected the census forms in 1939 and they later became a collection in the Bundesarchiv in Potsdam, Germany. The Genealogical Society of Utah, under contract with the Bundesarchiv, Potsdam, microfilmed the census records in 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors purchased copies of the 292 microfilm reels in 1995 and later transferred the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives (now designated as: RG-14.013M; Acc. 1997.A.0034). The Registry purchased an additional reel in 1996 and transferred it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives shortly thereafter.
- Additional notes: filmed in 1990-1991 by Holocaust Committee of Jerusalem ; copied with permission in 1991 for Lynn Carson, Eastern Europe negotiator for the Mormon Family History Team ; finding aid (index) acquired from Salt Lake City in August 1995 by USHMM HVI project; complete listings received Fall 1995. n.b. The Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) is currently computerizing this census as the first step in the preparation of a revised and expanded Gedenkbuch. The address of the Bundesarchiv and contact person's name follow: Abteilungen Potsdam, Tizenstrasse 13, D-14467 Potsdam, Germany, phone 011 49 331 314 302, contact person Frau Brachmann-Teubner. In October 1995, Survivors Registry Volunteer Peter Lande met with Frau Brachmann-Teubner, who agreed verbally to share the data in machine-readable format once the project is complete.
Keywords:
- Jews --Austria --Census, 1939.
- Jews --Germany --Census, 1939.
- Jews --Poland --Census, 1939.
- Jews --Soviet Union --Census, 1939.
- Jews --Czechoslovakia --Census, 1939.
- Jews --Austria --Census, 1939.
- Minorities --Germany --Census, 1939.
- Reichssippenamt Volkszählung vom 17.05.1938 durchgeführt 1939 --Indexes.
- German minority census of 1938-1939 --Indexes.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Family History Library. --Microform catalogs --Indexes.
- Germany. Bundesarchiv. --Microform catalogs --Indexes.
- Minorities --Germany --Statistics --Bibliography --Microform catalogs --Indexes.
- Microforms --Catalogs --Indexes.
- Germany --Census, 1939 --Bibliography --Microform catalogs --Indexes.
- Germany. Reichssippenamt. --Sources.
- Jews --Austria --Persecutions --Sources.
- Jews --Germany --Persecutions --Sources.
- Jews --Germany --Statistics, Vital.
- Interfaith marriage --Germany --Sources.
- Children of interfaith marriage --Germany --Sources.
Abstract:
Finding aid for the Volksminderheitszählung, the German National Minority Census of 1938-1939, the second of two Nazi-mandated censuses (the first being in 1933). Race-specific questions and the resultant census data provided a starting point and reference material for race-based policies and the persecution of Jews and other groups. The 1939 census was the basis for a national card catalog of German Jews. Formulae were developed for the classification of a person's race or mixed-race status based on the questions asked in the census. Entries on the census form included first and last name, day, month and year of birth, place of birth and race-based questions about maternal and parental grandparents. Questions were also asked about level of education and whether any members of the household resided outside the home. Census forms were printed, with handwritten entries. The 1939 German National Census included Austria, which was annexed by Germany in 1938. The Sudetenland and the Czech lands Bohemia and Moravia were not included, because a 1930 Czech census was deemed sufficient. Collection includes a finding aid with translations of German census questions and column headings, and information on where to find census data from a particular German locality or 'Land' (state) in the Mormon Family History Library Catalog; how many reels there are for a given place, their size in millimeters (mm), and what film numbers correspond to which range of names (e.g. Aal, H. - Alexander, F. can be found on film number 1742147). Subject headings are also given as they relate to particular localities and Länder (German states). The actual census results were published in 1940. They give 330,892 'full-Jews', 72,738 so-called 'first-degree hybrids', and 42,811 so-called 'second-degree hybrids' living within the German boundaries of 1939.
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in English and German.
- Includes index.
- Accompanying microfilm is housed in the USHMM Archives.
- USHMM Archives Catalog misinterprets title of microfilm collection which this work indexes as: "Reichssippenamt Volkszälung [sic] vom 17.05.1938 durchgefürt [sic] 1939 [microform] = the German minority census of 1938-1939, 1938-1939 [sic]."
- Survivors Registry Document File #AA0366 contains a sample partial printout of computerized census data.
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\AA0366\AA0366.pdf
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AA0366