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Rescue operations for the Jews of Greece, 1943-1945

Rescue operations for the Jews of Greece, 1943-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-5: Two reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Athens. The reports contain information, among others, regarding German actions against the Jewish population, help provided by the local Greek population, escape of Jews to other countries or to forests and joining the partisans, the camps where Jews were interned, abuse of inmates by the Germans, and the cost of basic supplies in Athens at the time the report was compiled, October 1943; Pages 6-10: Letter from L. Benveniste in Lausanne dealing with Jewish citizens of...

File Number : 38

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Dr. Leo David, an attorney-at-law from Frankfurt am Main, regarding the origin and basic idea of the Haavara Agreement, 1933-1939; correspondence between Dr. Leo David and Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, 1960 Dr. Leo David, a Zionist activist in Germany, in the 1930s, responded to a written questionnaire sent to him by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the Haavara Agreement, preparations for its realization and its actual implementation. - Development of the idea of the Haavara (transfer) Agreement by the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) in Berlin, especially...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Memoirs, Letter

Language : German

Documentation from France regarding Santos Montero Sanchez, born Samuel Skornicki, legal adviser and consul of Spain in Saint Etienne during the war

Documentation from France regarding Santos Montero Sanchez, born Samuel Skornicki, legal adviser and consul of Spain in Saint Etienne during the war - a letter written by Arlette Skornicki during the war to Maréchal Pétain (written from her school); - letters of thanks for rescue during the war, sent in Lyon, Saint Etienne, Saint-Rambert-sur-Loire, Nice and Paris to Mr. Montero in 1944-1945; - letter of thanks from the Spanish Consulate in Saint Etienne to Santos Montero Sanchez for his acts of heroism during the war; - documentation concerning Samuel Skornicki (pseudonym Santos Montero Sanchez), legal...

File Number : 666

Type of Material : Declaration, כתובה, Birth Certificate, Envelope, Identity Card, Certification, Personal Documents, Letter, Vouchers

Language : Spanish, French, German, Aramaic

Letter from the Spanish consulate in Hendaya, France, 1939, about the appointment of D. Juan y Agrela y Pardo Manuel de Villena to the post of Deputy Consul and Juan’s permit of stay

Letter from the Spanish consulate in Hendaya, France, 1939, about the appointment of D. Juan y Agrela y Pardo Manuel de Villena to the post of Deputy Consul and Juan’s permit of stay - letter from the from the Spanish consulate in Hendaya, France, to D. Juan y Agrela y Pardo Manuel de Villena, June 27, 1939; concerning his appointment to the post of Deputy Consul in Hendaye; - permit of stay for Juan y Agrela y Parto, issued by the Prefect of -Basses-Pyrénées on June 30, 1952.

File Number : 4692

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Spanish, French

Journal kept by Salvador Saporta y Salmona regarding deportation to the Salonica and Bergen-Belsen camos, liberation from the camp, and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944; documentation from 1913 to 1944 pertaining to the Saporta family, born in Salonica Journal kept by Salvador Saporta y Salmona briefly recounting the experiences of the family from 29 July 1943 until their arrival in Tel Aviv, 20 December 1944: Deportation to the Baron Hirsch camp in Salonica, 29 July 1943; deportation to Germany, 02 August 1943; bombing of Nuremberg; transfer and arrival at Bergen-Belsen, 13 August 1943; release from the camp,...

File Number : 10289

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Diary, Letter

Language : Spanish, French, German, Greek

German passport marked with the letter "J" issued for Anna (Schutz) Lenkei from Vienna by the German Embassy in Rome, 1938

German passport marked with the letter "J" issued for Anna (Schutz) Lenkei from Vienna by the German Embassy in Rome, 1938 - German passport marked with the letter "J" issued for Anna (Schutz) Lenkei, born in Trieste, 1905, residing in Vienna, by the German Embassy in Rome, 16 May 1938 containing stamps facilitating passage from France, and stamps from the Portuguese and Spanish Consulates in Bordeaux, 1939-1940.

File Number : 1225

Type of Material : Passport

Language : German

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File Number : 184

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Italian