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Letters from Jews in Rosylna to relatives in the United States, photograph of a check and correspondence of Jews with the US Embassy in Poland regarding transferring aid to the relatives in Poland, 1937-1938 - Letters written by Jews in Rosylna to relatives in the United States asking them to help and send money, in Yiddish; - Photograph of a check for 25 dollars, dated 04 October 1937; - Correspondence of Jews [apparently from the United States] with the US Embassy in Poland, regarding the transfer of aid to relatives in Poland, 1938.

File Number : 1449

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : English, Yiddish

Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944

Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, known as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC, was established in the United States in 1914 in order to help the victims of World War I; the head office is located in New York; Included in the collection: Letters and activity reports prepared by the JDC, regarding financial help to victims of the Holocaust, and correspondence by the JDC branch offices in Lisbon and Paris with people and institutions, regarding help to Jews during...

Type of Material : Reports, Document

Language : English, German

Reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, from 1944

Reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, from 1944 The reports were submitted with accompanying cover letters signed by J. W. Pehle. - Pages 1-7: Proposals written by J. W. Pehle regarding finding a temporary solution for refugees and Jews in order to protect them from the Nazis, 10 March 1944; - Pages 8-14: Report by the WRB regarding the care for the refugees, 15-20 May 1944; - Pages 15-23: Report by the WRB regarding the care for the refugees, 26 June-01 July 1944; - Pages 23-37: Report by the WRB regarding the care for the refugees, including details regarding the situation...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : English

Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence, reports and memoirs, 1956-1960

Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence, reports and memoirs, 1956-1960 Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence between Jewish organizations, 1956-1960, reports submitted by historical commissions and memoirs of contemporary witnesses. In the file: - Report concerning the deportation of Jews from Hamburg to Riga, 06 December 1941, among the deportees: Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zwi Carlebach, the former rabbi of the Jewish...

File Number : 334

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter(s), Correspondence, Telegram, Testimony, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Reports

Language : Hebrew, English, German

List of Jews from Warsaw which was sent in a letter dated 15 March 1941 from M. Mensz, M. A. Zylberberg and B. M. Landau to Tanchum Berman in Brooklyn, USA, along with a request that food parcels be sent from abroad

File Number : 135

Type of Material : Letter, List of Jewish Residents

Language : Polish

Correspondence between Jacob Pat, the General Secretary of the Jewish Labor Party in the United States, and Tomasz Kuzniarz, the Financial Advisor at the Polish Embassy in New York, regarding the transfer of funds to the Polish underground for Jews who managed to escape from the Warsaw Ghetto and hide on the Aryan side, 10 August-19 September 1943 Exchange of letters regarding the transfer of financial assistance from the Jewish Labor Party in the United States for the Polish underground that was handling the transfer of the remnants of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and their maintenance in hiding places...

File Number : 133

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Correspondence between the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Organization and B. Epstein regarding the fate of the Epsztein family in Warsaw, 1940

Correspondence between the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Organization and B. Epstein regarding the fate of the Epsztein family in Warsaw, 1940 - Letter from the Warsaw branch of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Organization to the HIAS branch in New York, dated 21 January 1940, requesting that they inquire whether B. Epstein is able to help members of his family living in Warsaw, among them his sister Cyla and his brother Szyja, who are in a very difficult material situation. In the letter there is also notification of the death of Mordcha-Nuta Epstein, B. Epstein's father; - Two letters...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Correspondence, Letter

Language : English, German

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding rescue and relief activities for Jewish refugees, 1944

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding rescue and relief activities for Jewish refugees, 1944 The file contains: Page1: Newspaper clipping from the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung", ("New Zurich Paper") dealing with US policy towards the refugees; Page 2: Memorandum from the US Government (apparently from one of the Divisions of the State Department) regarding US Government policy towards refugees, 17 May 1944; Pages 3-4: Bilateral declaration by the US Government (the Embassy next to the Polish...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Article, Telegram

Language : English, German

Letter from Abram Gelerman in the Warsaw Ghetto to his brother-in-law A. Shellow in Chicago, USA, transferred through HIAS, 27 November 1940

Letter from Abram Gelerman in the Warsaw Ghetto to his brother-in-law A. Shellow in Chicago, USA, transferred through HIAS, 27 November 1940 In the letter Abram Gelerman announces that everyone is well but they are totally without means; he requests that Shellow send parcels of food and clothing by air mail.

File Number : 1678

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Letters sent to Sam Sauberman, an activist in organizations of people originally from Pinsk, in New York, during 1927-1940 and 1947/1948

Letters sent to Sam Sauberman, an activist in organizations of people originally from Pinsk, in New York, during 1927-1940 and 1947/1948 - Letters written by Holocaust survivors or their relatives to Sam Shlomo Sauberman, an activist in a relief organization for people born in Pinsk, sent during 1947/1948, including: --- Letter sent by Rachel Bergman from Haifa, undated; --- Letter sent by Ch. Szmidt from the DP camp in Wasseralfingen on 13/09/1947, including a list of survivors originally from Pinsk who are in the Wasseralfingen DP camp; --- Letter sent by D. Goldman from the DP camp in Ulm on...

File Number : 3512

Type of Material : Certification, Newspaper Clippings, Brochure, Letter, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : English, Yiddish

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