ORT Archive documents relating to Germany
Established in 1921, ORT Germany helped disenfranchised German Jews in the 1930s and during the Second World War. After the Holocaust, ORT schools in DP camps helped the survivors throughout Germany until 1957. ORT Germany has continued working as a fundraising organisation in support of World ORT programmes around the world. The ORT online archive holds records of activities between 1921 and 1949. More information on activities in Germany can be found in the 1935-1996 reports submitted to World ORT's governing bodies and in the World ORT Report (formerly the ORT Yearbook). These can be found under World ORT. Our photo galleries include more from ORT Germany and a brief history of ORT's activities in the country is available here.
ORT Germany Governance Documents
- Agreement between ORT Union and Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone.
- Application for registration of "ORT", 21 January 1921.
- Constitution and by-laws of German ORT, 9 January 1921.
- Constitution and by-laws of German ORT as registered with the court, 7 March 1921.
- Extract from General Assembly minutes, 17 May 1924.
- Letter from Association of Jews in Germany to the magistrates court, 18 May 1942.
- Letter from Association of Jews in Germany to the Magistrates Court, 25 June 1942.
- Letter from Chief of Police to Magistrates Court, 16 April 1940.
- Letter from Home Secretary to ORT, 23 March 1940.
- Letter from notary Bang and Wachsmann to Magistrates Court, Berlin, 11 December 1936.
- Letter from ORT, informing the courts of date for a General Assembly, 12 May 1926.
- Letter from ORT to Magistrates Court, 1 February 1940.
- Letter from ORT to Magistrates Court, 3 December 1940.
- Letter from ORT to Magistrates Court, 28 April 1938.
- Letter from ORT to the Magistrates Court, Berlin proving registration, 19 December 193
- Letter from the Ministry of Interior to ORT, 21 March 1941.
- Memo re bureaucratic mistake with regards to the registration of ORT Germany, 1940.
- Minutes of an extraordinary meeting of the General Assemby of German ORT, 24 May 1938.
- Minutes of board meeting of German ORT, 17 April 1928.
- Minutes of board meeting of German ORT, chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 28 June 1927.
- Minutes of board meeting of German ORT chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 4 May 1932.
- Minutes of board meeting of German ORT chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 19 April 1931.
- Minutes of board meeting of German ORT chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 30 April 1929.
- Minutes of General Assemby of German ORT, chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 17 April 1929.
- Minutes of meeting of Gesellschaft ORT ABT. Deutschland E. V., 12 November 1936.
- Minutes of meeting of ORT Gesellschaft ABT. Deutschland E. V., 28 September 1936.
- Minutes of the AGM of German ORT, chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 10 April 1930.
- Minutes of the AGM of German ORT, chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 16 July 1934.
- Minutes of the AGM of German ORT, chaired by Wilhelm Graetz, 30 March 1931.
- Minutes of the General Assemby [AGM] of German ORT, 9 January 1921.
- Newspaper extract announcing that registration of ORT in Germany on 7 March 1921.
- New version of ORT's constitution and by-laws, July 1928.
ORT Germany Reports & Publications
- Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone (Germany), 1945-1947.
- Germany report in 'The Financing of the work of the ORT Union in 1939', c. 1939.
- Illustrated report: 2 Years in ORT Landsberg 1945-1947.
- Newspaper article on Lt. Colonel Levey's visit to ORT Berlin school, November 1937.
- O.R.T. Vocational School Bergen-Belsen 1945-1947.
- O.R.T. Zonal Vocational School Neustadt Holstein, c. 1948.
- ORT District Bamberg Regensburg, December 1947.
- ORT in Germany 1933-1939 by D. Klementinowsky.
- ORT in US Zone Germany, 1948.
- ORT Jubileum Fajerungen in Landsberg 14 August 1947.
- ORT US-Zone Germany 1945-1947.
- Proposed Deployment of J.C.R.A. Personnel in British Zone, 2 October 1945.
- Report on visits to DP camps in Germany, 20-21 August 1947.
- Report on visit to the ORT school in Stuttgart, 19 September 1947.
- The Position of the Technical School of the ORT in Berlin, December 1938.
ORT Germany Correspondence
- Acknowledgement by ORT that Herbert Stein will receive locksmithery training, 1940.
- Circular, accepting Herbert Stein to the Berlin ORT school, 1940.
- Letter from JCRA to Mr Rhatigan, Deputy Director General of UNRRA, 2 October 1945.
- Letter from ORT Berlin accepting Herbert Stein as a student, 1940.
- Letter from ORT Germany to ORT Union Paris, 23 June 1938.
- Letter from ORT to Central Committee of German Jews for Help and Development, 16 Aug 1935.
- Letter from ORT to Ludwig Stein regarding school fees, 1940.
- Letter thanking ORT Berlin for participation in sender's father's funeral, May 1932.
- Letter to Jaszunski in Warsaw about liquidation of ORT in Germany, 13 June 1933.
- Notice of appointment for medical and technical aptitude examination, January 1940.
- Postcard sent by Werner Simon of ORT Germany from Theresienstadt, November 1943.
ORT Germany Staff, Graduates & Alumni
- Certificate (and reference) awarded to Mrs Ajzen Sula by WOU, 14 June 1949.
- Certificate of Completion of Course in Auto-Mechanics, issued to Eisen Mordcha, 1946.
- John Heller Comments on ORT Berlin Photo Album, 24 August 1999.
- ORT diploma No. 405, awarded to Herbert Stein by the ORT school in Berlin, 1941.
- ORT diploma No. 449, awarded to Moniek Choyna by ORT in Munich, 3 February 1947.
- Work card (no.565) issued by ORT Central Headquarters in Germany, 1947.
- [Copy] certificate issued to E.G.J. Fontheim by the Berlin ORT school, 24 April 1941.