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Documentation regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives (the "Goods for Blood" deal), including a telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion regarding the transfer of the German proposal to President F. D. Roosevelt, and regarding Saly Mayer's discussions with Heinrich Rothmund, his meetings with Kurt Becher, and other matters, July-September 1944

Documentation regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives (the "Goods for Blood" deal), including a telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion regarding the transfer of the German proposal to President F. D. Roosevelt, and regarding Saly Mayer's discussions with Heinrich Rothmund, his meetings with Kurt Becher, and other matters, July-September 1944 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held by Saly Mayer with the Germans in the context of the "Goods for Blood" deal ("ARBA") [?] with the aim of delaying the murder of the Jews in Hungary and in the remainder of Europe; - Telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion to Nahum Goldmann regarding the transfer, to US President F. D. Roosevelt, of the German proposal concerning the release of Jews, 11 July 1944; - Documentation regarding the JDC organization's support for the negotiations with the Germans concerning the rescue of rabbis [the negotiations by Isaac Sternbuch, the Swiss representative of the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada]; - Telegram sent by Moshe Shertok (Sharett) to Nahum Goldmann, regarding Dr. Israel Kasztner's negotiations with the German authorities, 25 July 1944; - Telegram sent by the US State Department to Joseph Schwartz, including the ban on various contacts with the German authorities, 28 July 1944; - List of Jewish inmates, collected by Andreas Biss, an activist on the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, in preparation for the negotiations with the SS representatives; - Documentation by Saly Mayer regarding his discussions with Heinrich Rothmund, Chief of the Swiss Ministry of Justice Police Department, in the context of the negotiations with the SS representatives, August 1944; - Documentation regarding the meetings between Saly Mayer and a delegation of SS men lead by Kurt Becher, head of the SS economics department, held in Sankt Margrethen (on the Swiss-Austrian border), August-September 1944; - Documentation regarding the situation of the Jews in Bergen-Belsen camp; - List of names of the first 318 Jewish survivors from Bergen-Belsen camp who arrived to Switzerland [in the context of the negotiations], August 1944; - Documentation regarding the negotiations.
item Id
3684637
Type of material
Documentation
List of survivors
Official documentation
Protocol
Telegram
File Number
להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם
Language
English
German
Record Group
P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive from the Joint Archives in New York
Date of Creation - earliest
11/07/1944
Date of Creation - latest
30/09/1944
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
670
Archival Signature
:"(SM ARBA, 1944 (JULY-SEPT)" (FILE No 13"
Location of Originals
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: NEW-YORK
Connected to Item
P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)