"Recruitments"

In the course of 1941, fewer and fewer Jews followed the "draft notices", which led Alois Brunner, the head of the "Central Office for Jewish Emigration", to introduce the "recruitments" system in November 1941. The "recruitments" proceeded like raids, with the SS cordoning off alleys and residential buildings and forcing IKG (Jewish community) employees to inform the victims on the next deportation list who had to go to the collection camp about their arrest, to check them while they were packing and to prevent escape attempts. The employees of the IKG were called "recruiters", "searchers" or also "stewards" because of their forced involvement in the system of "recruitments".[1] Essential for the "recruitments" were the so-called "house lists" of the IKG. These lists contained the names of the residents of each house who were to be taken to the "collection camp". The lists made it easy for the Nazi authorities to keep track and to organize the deportations smoothly for the regime. Shown here is the house list of the apartment building at Esslinggasse 13 in the 1st district. On the right edge of the table the transport numbers are entered in Roman numerals, as the lists were kept as provisional deportation lists, on the basis of which deportation lists were later typed up.

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[1] Hecht, et al., Letzte Orte. 43f.