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Survey of the situation in the Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi press, the local press and witnesses, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, January 1943

Survey of the situation in the Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi press, the local press and witnesses, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, January 1943 Survey regarding the attitude of the churches towards the Jews in the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland; no information arriving from the ghettos in Poland; waiving of customs charges between the Generalgouvernement and the Reich; kerosene factories in Galicia under German ownership; improvements in the conditions of outstanding Polish workers; Polish railroad workers; establishment of a German Archive in Poznan; medical treatment for...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles regarding emigration destinations of Jews escaping from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles regarding emigration destinations of Jews escaping from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939 In the file: - "The Jews of Germany Should Be Saved", article which appeared in the French journal, "Correspondance Juive", which was published under the auspices of the WJC (World Jewish Congress) in Geneva (pp. 2-8), 13 December 1938; - Clippings from Swiss newspapers; - Reports regarding the treatment of the Jews in Shanghai, England, Cuba, Bombay and Norway; - Report regarding Jewish life in Shanghai.

File Number : 168

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, German

Testimony of Leo Eitinger, born in Lomnice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding the rescue operation of Jewish children (Kindertransport) from Czechoslovakia to Norway, the fate of the Jews in Norway under the Nazi occupation and his own experiences in Norway, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and back in Norway after the liberation - Biographical details, 1912-1939; - Description of the Nansenhjelpen (Nansen Relief-Nansenhilfe), a Norwegian humanitarian organization founded by Odd Nansen in 1936 to provide safe haven and assistance in Norway for Jewish refugees from areas in Europe under Nazi control; -...

File Number : 255

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Norwegian underground activists Odd Westeng and Alf M. Bredesen regarding smuggling those persecuted by the Nazi regime from Norway into Sweden in 1942-1944

Memoirs of Norwegian underground activists Odd Westeng and Alf M. Bredesen regarding smuggling those persecuted by the Nazi regime from Norway into Sweden in 1942-1944 Odd Westeng's stay in the Grini camp in 1942; the arrival of Odd Westeng and Alf Bredesen from Oslo to the area near the border between Norway and Sweden in 1942, under the false identity of loggers; organization of the smuggling route; accompanying groups of people persecuted by the Nazi regime into Swedish territory; move to Sweden in September 1944; Anti-Nazi underground activity until the end of the war.

File Number : 11636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English