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Correspondence between the Geneva authorities and representatives of the Jewish Agency regarding preparations for the 21st World Zionist Congress, 1939

Correspondence between the Geneva authorities and representatives of the Jewish Agency regarding preparations for the 21st World Zionist Congress, 1939 Correspondence between the Geneva authorities and representatives of the Jewish Agency regarding preparations for the 21st World Zionist Congress and the 6th Jewish Agency Council held, 16-31 August 1939. Also in the file: - Congress program.

File Number : 100

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French

Administrative correspondence between the Canton of Geneva Department of Justice and Police and the Federal Department of Justice and Police in Bern regarding Jewish refugees crossing the Swiss borders, 1941-1945 - Correspondence between the Canton of Geneva Department of Justice and Police and the Federal Department of Justice and Police in Bern regarding the police policy toward the Jewish refugees; questions regarding deportation of undesirable Jewish refugees. Also in the file: - Names of refugees dealt with by the Canton of Geneva Department of Justice and Police.

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names

Language : French

Documentation regarding the Swiss policy toward the Jewish refugees and their fates, 1933-1945

Documentation regarding the Swiss policy toward the Jewish refugees and their fates, 1933-1945 Also in the file: - List of Jewish refugees interned in the Neuchatel Prison, 1938-1945; - Official Swiss documentation regarding the fate of the Jewish refugee Siegfied Cahn, 1942.

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Inmates, List of Names, Research Article

Language : French, German

Documentation related to the activities of Professor Kalman Binyamini, born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1924, on behalf of the aliya and absorption of child Holocaust survivors to Israel, 1940-1996

Documentation related to the activities of Professor Kalman Binyamini, born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1924, on behalf of the aliya and absorption of child Holocaust survivors to Israel, 1940-1996 Included in the documents is an article written by Professor Binyamini in New York in 1991, titled, "Bluma's letter, a sort of confession"; the article was written in reaction to the letter of a woman named Bluma, who as a child Holocaust survivor and orphan was in a children's institution in Schirmeck; in the letter, she expresses her immense anger regarding the mocking treatment she received from the psychologist...

File Number : 502

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Survey Report, Letter, Article, Newspaper, Memoirs, Research Article, Speech

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Testimony of Claude (Levi) Iakovs, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1925, regarding her family's move to France, and in late 1940 to Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Claude (Levi) Iakovs, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1925, regarding her family's move to France, and in late 1940 to Switzerland Childhood in a secular family; her father had Swiss citizenship, and her mother was a native of France; life in France; attendance at a public elementary school and a public high school; Outbreak of the war, 1940; departure of her family approximately three days later on a train organized by the Swiss Embassy; decision to remain in France; living quarters near Paris; German occupation; move to the Loches area; living in Genille, a small village; stamping of their...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew