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Testimony of Haim Andre Burger Zur, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Bratislava, Kistarcsa camp, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944, and other experiences

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Andre Burger Zur, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Bratislava, Kistarcsa camp, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944, and other experiences Life before the war; death of his father, and move of the witness to Kosice Mesto; life in Kosice Mesto in a Jewish orphanage; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; move to his uncle's home in the center of Hungary; life in his uncle's home; work in his uncle's shop, 1938; move to Budapest by order of the movement; life in Budapest; work in various places; plans in preparation for aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation of the Hungarian Jews and the efforts to rescue them, May-December 1944

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation of the Hungarian Jews and the efforts to rescue them, May-December 1944 Page 1: - Report from Harrison in Bern to the WRB regarding a proposal by the Hungarian authorities to exchange Jews for Hungarians captured by the Soviet Union, 27 May 1944; Pages 2-4: - Report by Pinkerton, the US Consul in Jerusalem, regarding deterioration of the situation of the Jews in Hungary and Romania, and the detention of Zionist leaders in these countries, 26 May 1944; Pages 5-6: - Telegram from Steinhardt in Ankara...

File Number : 95

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Telegram

Language : English, German

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and United States diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the mission of Joel Brand and efforts to save the Jews of Hungary, May-December 1944 Page 1: - Telegram from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington regarding the proposal to exchange Hungarian Jews for Hungarian POWs in the Soviet Union and in other countries; 27 May 1944; Pages 2-3: - Copy of a report by the British High Commissioner in Eretz Israel regarding his meeting with David Ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok about the...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Correspondence and reports by the WRB (War Refugee Board) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of the Jews and rescue efforts, 1943-1944 Page 1: Message from the US State Department to the US Consul in Istanbul with a summary of what was said by the Hungarian Minister of the Interior, Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, during a discussion in the Hungarian Parliament regarding the illegal infiltration of Jews into Hungary, December 1943; Pages 2-4: Memorandum by H. W. Emerson from the US Embassy in London summarizing a...

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding relief for Jews, also following liberation, primarily in Hungary, and rescue attempts, 1944 Included in the file: Volume 1 (pages 1-105): Pages 1-2: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department in Washington, notifying of the illegal entry into Hungary of thousands of Jews from the neighboring countries, 23 December 1943; Pages 3-7: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department including the testimony of a Polish...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

Financial matters, and specifically, the exchange of telegrams with members of Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee) in Istanbul regarding the financing of relief operations for the Jews of France, Hungary and Slovakia, 1943-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-2: Transfer of funds from "Kibbuz" [kibbutz?] (via Richard Lichtheim and Venja Hadari) to Chaim Pazner in Geneva, May 1943; Page 3: Financial report regarding relief operations sent to Goldin in Istanbul, apparently from Geneva, undated; Pages 4-49: Exchange of letters, primarily telegrams, between Chaim Pazner and the [Eretz Israeli] Office in...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Correspondence, primarily regarding activities of the Labor and Ichud movements, 1944-1945

Correspondence, primarily regarding activities of the Labor and Ichud movements, 1944-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-42: Correspondence between the office in Geneva and the Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee) in Istanbul (Kushta), primarily with its representatives in the Workers movement, regarding financial help and obtaining of certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for members of the Zionist movement in Nazi occupied countries (among the correspondents are Chaim Pazner, Nathan Schwalb, Venja Pomerantz, Chaim Barlas and others), 1944; Pages 43-44: Report from Venja Pomerantz and Menachem...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, German, Yiddish

Correspondence with the Histadrut delegation in Istanbul and its reports regarding the situation in the [Nazi] occupied countries, 1942-1943

Correspondence with the Histadrut delegation in Istanbul and its reports regarding the situation in the [Nazi] occupied countries, 1942-1943 The file contains: Pages 1-97: Correspondence with personnel - the Histadrut delegation in Istanbul (Kushta), Wenia Pomerantz and Menahem Bader; regarding, among other things, establishing contact with members of the Zionist movement in the occupied countries, financial aid and obtaining certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] and passports for them; the "triumvirate" in Geneva (Pazner, Nathan Schwalb and A. Zilbershein); the work the group does and its weak...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Requests to obtain certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for Hungarian Jews, 1944-1945

Requests to obtain certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for Hungarian Jews, 1944-1945 The file contains: Correspondence and telegrams, primarily between Chaim Pazner and Joseph Goldin, Chaim Barlas and Menachem Bader from the Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee) branch of the Jewish Agency in Istanbul, regarding obtaining certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for individual Jews in Hungary. The page numbers do not necessarily correspond with the frame numbers in the scan.

File Number : 31

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

Language : French, English, German

Correspondence regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary, Auschwitz and rescue efforts, particularly in Hungary, 1943-1945

Correspondence regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary, Auschwitz and rescue efforts, particularly in Hungary, 1943-1945 The file has two volumes. Volume 1: Pages 1-6: Letter from Moshe Krausz to Chaim Pazner regarding the deportation of Hungarian Jews and a description of Auschwitz extermination camp, 19 June 1944; Pages 7-11: Telegrams and summaries of correspondence between Chaim Pazner, Moshe Krausz, Chaim Barlas and Itzhak Gruenbaum (who also wrote letters to additional people) regarding the letter from Moshe Krausz, June-July 1944; Page 12: Warning from the US Government to the...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Letter, List of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Protocol, Telegram, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

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