The Association branched out from the Reich Representation of German Jews (Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden) established in September 1933.
The new Association was an administrative body concerned predominantly with the coordination and support of the emigration and forcible deportation of Jewish people,[1] subject to the Reich government's ever-changing legislation enforced by the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt).
To be spared the discrimination and persecutions visited upon Jews, affiliation with the so-called Aryan race had to be proved.
They also all underlay the full discriminations and persecutions imposed by the Nazis and were publicly labelled by the Yellow badge from 1 September 1941.
These trainees learned basic housekeeping, artisan, farming, animal husbandry, and foreign language skills during a two-year program.
[9] Initially the training camp at Gross-Bressen planned to send trainees abroad in order to establish various settlements.
The remaining trainees and staff continued operations at Gross-Bressen until August 31, 1941, when Gestapo officials dissolved the training farm and compelled the personnel into forced labor.
The Reichsvereinigung made the Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt its press organ, since all the other 64 papers of Jewish alignment had been forbidden after the November Pogroms in 1938.
[10] In order not to evoke unease among the general German population, the Reich government preferred to hide its activities.
The Reichsvereinigung was charged with announcing the ever-growing number of anti-Semitic ordinances to its persecuted members, and supervising their obedience.
The decision to murder the Jews was made official policy at the Wannsee conference (January 1942) which discussed its implementation.
Following the dissolution, a new organization called the Rest-Reichsvereinigung was created, which was headed by Lustig and was located in the administration building of the Jewish Hospital.