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File
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URO-TA-Pers-2150
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ID
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997013170237405171
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Title
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Meretz, David Paul (Maerz, Maves), residing in Jerusalem, Israel, reparations file.
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Main applicants and victims of persecution
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Meretz (Maerz), David Paul, 1894-, URO applicant, victim
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Meretz (née Kohn-Kresta), Tamara (Margarete), 1900-, victim, relative
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Years
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1964-1970
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Content
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Dr. David Paul Meretz, residing in Jerusalem, Israel, sought compensation for harm to profession related to his employment as a paid leader of the Zionist Central Association and the Palestine Office in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from which he was forced to resign in November 1939 due to Gestapo persecution. His colleagues from the executive committee, Jakob Edelstein Franz Friedmann Franz Kahn, and Ing. Otto Zucker, were later murdered in Auschwitz. The applicant's wife, Tamara Meretz, was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo in Mährisch-Ostrau in September 1939. Before the Nazi occupation Meretz was a lawyer in Mährisch-Ostrau. After being forced to give up his practice in March 1939, he moved to Prague and became the paid head of the Zionist Central Association. He emigrated to Palestine in November 1939, where he worked for the Jewish Agency and later became a civil servant. He was granted a one-time capital compensation of DM 20,000 gross under § 31d BWGÖD. The case was handled by URO offices in Tel Aviv, Cologne, and Frankfurt/Main, with communication with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The file references the establishment of the "Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung" in Prague by Eichmann in August 1939 and the first mass deportation of Jews from Mährisch-Ostrau to Nisko am San on October 17, 1939. His wife also claimed harm to her profession at the URO and it is stated that her claim was likely not feasible. Contains mention of piano.
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Additional biographic data on victims of persecution
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Meretz (Maerz), David Paul, born 26.12.1894 in Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic), citizenship: Czechoslovakian, former profession: lawyer, chairman of the zionist central association.
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Meretz (née Kohn-Kresta), Tamara (Margarete), born 07.12.1900 in Ostrava (Czech Republic), former profession: piano teacher.
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Meretz, Michael, born 05.02.1938.
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Meretz, Uri, born 08.08.1924.
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Winter, Paul Felix, born 29.07.1901 in Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic).
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Hermann, Emmy, born 09.06.1897 in Lanškroun (Czech Republic).
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Other victims of persecution mentioned
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Winter, Paul Felix, 1901-, victim, witness
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Hermann, Emmy, 1897-, victim, witness
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Jaari (née Kloss), Grete, victim, witness
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Other related individuals
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Moses, Siegfried, witness
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Eisner, Jehuda, witness
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Maerz, Moritz, relative
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Maerz (née Adler), Caecilie, relative
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Knopf, Harry, URO employee
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Hammerschmid, URO employee
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Singer, URO employee
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May, Kurt, URO employee
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Tramer, H., URO employee
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Nath, URO employee
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Rosenberg, Lea, URO employee
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Mayer, P., URO employee
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Susman, German legislative
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Lange, German legislative
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Framanch, German legislative
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Blümke, German legislative
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Siemens, German legislative
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Habermehl, German legislative
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Dahmen, German legislative
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Klemann, German legislative
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Corts, legal advisor
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Kalisch, legal advisor
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Orthmann, legal advisor
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Hermann, Robert, legal advisor
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Simon, Paul, legal advisor
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Meretz, Michael, 1938-, victim, heir
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Meretz, Uri, 1924-, victim, heir
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Related concentration and conscript labor camps
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Auschwitz
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Additional notes
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Contains biography.
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Contains medical records.
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