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    Central Office for Jewish Emigration (German: Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung) was a designation of Nazi institutions in Vienna, Prague and Amsterdam...
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    The Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague (German: Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Prag), reformed in 1942 as the (German: Zentralamt...
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  • Hans Günther (SS officer) (category Holocaust perpetrators in Bohemia and Moravia)
    SS-Sturmbannführer who was the head of the "Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague" during World War II. He was in charge of the deportation of Czech Jews...
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    Rolf Günther (category Holocaust perpetrators in Greece)
    of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague. Günther committed suicide by poison in August 1945 while being held by the Americans in an Ebensee...
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    astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petřín hill and Vyšehrad. Since 1992, the historic center of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World...
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    The Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam (German: Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung) was the Amsterdam branch of the Central Office for...
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    Central Office for Jewish Emigration which had initially been established by Eichmann in Vienna in August 1938. On 24 January 1939, the Reich Central...
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  • List of people from Erfurt (category Lists of people by city in Germany)
    (1910–1945), policeman, Sturmbannführer and head of the Central office for Jewish emigration in Prague Max Lackmann (1910–2000), ecumenist Heinrich Schonder...
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  • this emigration process. The Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna was the only institution empowered with the issuance of exit permits for Jews...
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    Siegfried Seidl (category People executed for treason against Austria)
    Auswanderung (Central office for Jewish emigration) in Prague. Günther in turn reported to Adolf Eichmann at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) IV B 4 in Berlin...
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    the RSHA section IV B 4 (Jewish affairs) and Hans Günther, the director of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague. Reinhard Heydrich, the RSHA...
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  • Jakob Edelstein (category Executed Jewish collaborators with Nazi Germany)
    the "Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam" (the only one in Western Europe), like the Central Office in Prague. On 18 October 1939 Edelstein...
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    space", and seized power in early 1933. Meant to force all German Jews to emigrate, regardless of means, the regime passed anti-Jewish laws, encouraged harassment...
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  • H. G. Adler (category Writers from Prague)
    because it was the name of a leading official in the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague. In June 1946 he lost his Сzechoslovakian citizenship...
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    Prague. One of the famous Jewish scholars of the time was Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the Maharal, who served as a leading rabbi in Prague for most...
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    in those years, from both the political establishment and the general population. Throughout the interwar period, Poland supported Jewish emigration from...
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  • Anton Burger (category Holocaust perpetrators in Bohemia and Moravia)
    Adolf Eichmann). In the summer of 1939, he was transferred to the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Prague, where he participated in the expropriation...
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    Prague branch of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration was set up the same month. The Central Office initially only had jurisdiction over Prague and...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, and widespread emigration from other Jewish communities around the world, ancient and distinct Jewish languages...
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    need for help for Jewish emigration. During the period 1933 to the end of 1939, JDC-supported organizations had helped some 110,000 Jews emigrate from...
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    Applications were made for their extradition based on the European Arrest Warrants. Between 1961 and 1967, the average rate of Jewish emigration from Poland was...
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    Karl Rahm (category People executed for crimes against humanity)
    the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, where he served under Adolf Eichmann. In 1940, he was transferred to Prague into the same office, as...
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    Patria disaster (category Jewish immigrant ships)
    make trouble for Britain as well as to get rid of Jews. The Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration or ZjA) worked...
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    Berlin Wall in August 1961. Thereafter, emigration from the Eastern Bloc was effectively limited to illegal defections, ethnic emigration under bilateral...
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  • Franz Novak (category Nazis who participated in the July Putsch)
    promoted to SS-Untersturmführer. In July 1939, he participated in the opening of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Prague, where his immediate superior...
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    Franz Kafka (category Writers from Prague)
    like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the...
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  • After attending school in Opava, Milan Pitlach studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Following this he worked...
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  • HIAS (category Jewish charities based in the United States)
    assist refugees bound for resettlement in the U.S. and other countries. Overall, during the 40 years of Soviet Jewish emigration, HIAS assisted more than...
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  • further emigration looked likely. The promotion of emigration was therefore one of the main tasks of the committee. Over the years, the Emigration Department...
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    Kindertransport (category Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany)
    German-Jewish origin, travelled to Prague to help a friend involved in Jewish refugee work. Under the loose direction of the British Committee for Refugees...
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