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Documentation regarding the rescue activities of Isaac Sternbuch and the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and regarding the negotiations for the transfer of inmates from camps to Switzerland; documents dated, 1944-1982

Documentation regarding the rescue activities of Isaac Sternbuch and the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and regarding the negotiations for the transfer of inmates from camps to Switzerland; documents dated, 1944-1982 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held between a group lead by Isaac Sternbuch, the Swiss representative of the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and with SS representatives, regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Documentation regarding the petition by the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, sent to the Court of Law in Nuremberg, in favor of Walter Schellenberg, the SS man and chief of the United Intelligence Services of Nazi Germany [who was put on trial in 1947], 1948-1949; - Correspondence between Isaac Sternbuch and the United States Legation in Bern, regarding the activities in Europe by the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, February-April 1944; - Newspaper clippings regarding the transfer of 1,200 Jews from Theresienstadt to Switzerland, 08-09 February 1945; - List of Jews who were transferred from Theresienstadt to Switzerland; - Correspondence between Isaac Sternbuch, the representative of the Schweizerischer Hilfsverein fuer Juedische Fluechtlinge im Ausland (HIJEFS) and the VSJF - Verband Schweizerischer Juedischer Fuersorgen (Association of Jewish Welfare Organizations in Switzerland), regarding the care of Jewish refugee children who remained with non-Jewish families after the war, October 1945; - Testimony by Jean-Marie Musy, the President of Switzerland and former Swiss Minister of the Treasury, regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives [for the transfer of inmates from the camps to Switzerland], 26-29 October 1945; - Testimonies of SS men Kurt Becher and Franz Goering, the assistant of Walter Schellenberg, chief of the United Intelligence Services of Nazi Germany, and testimony of Benoît Nicolas Musy, the son of the President of Switzerland, Jean-Marie Musy; - Excerpt from a weekly [newspaper], regarding the activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada during the war, 20 June 1982; - Documentation regarding the sending of 640 tractors from Switzerland to Hungary, in the context of the negotiations held with SS representatives regarding the fate of the Jews in Hungary, 1944-1945.
item Id
3684645
Type of material
Correspondence
List of survivors
Newspaper clippings
Official documentation
Testimony
File Number
להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם
Language
French
German
Record Group
P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive from the Joint Archives in New York
Date of Creation - earliest
02/1944
Date of Creation - latest
20/06/1982
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
732
Archival Signature
21
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)