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Letter sent by A. I. Jacobson, the Gabbai of the Yeshurun Synagogue in Stockholm to Fred Olsen, attaché in the United States Legation in Stockholm, 13 July 1944

Letter sent by A. I. Jacobson, the Gabbai of the Yeshurun Synagogue in Stockholm to Fred Olsen,attaché in the United States Legation in Stockholm, 13 July 1944 Request to intervene on behalf of the return to work of Mr. Manuel Munes Borrero, the Consul from Ecuador who assisted Jews holding Ecuadorian passports to escape from Europe.

File Number : 637

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands, in particular regarding the persecution of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East, 1940-1945, and partial postwar documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in the Netherlands, 1945-1966 Included in the file: Part One: 03/02/1942 Circular by the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Netherlands, Wilhelm Harster, concerning the competences in Jewish questions, including the transfer of competences to the "Central Office for...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Correspondence, Document(s), List of Camp Inmates, List of Sick People, List of Disabled People, Protocol, Reports, List of Persecuted Persons, Questions and Answers, List of Evacuated Persons, Draft, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Index, List of Names, List of Deportees, Circular, Investigation Reports, Radio Broadcasts, Testimony, Deportation List, Record of Survivors, Administrative Documentation, Laws and Decrees, Lists, Legal Documentation

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Documentation and correspondence, primarily regarding rescue activities, with the [Eretz Israel] Office in Geneva, and transmitting information to the free world regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland, 1941-1974 The file contains: Pages 1-4: Correspondence between Dr. Chaim Pazner and Professor Edgar Salin, the British Consul in Switzerland, regarding receiving information concerning German policy on the countries it occupied, including information on the extermination of Polish Jewry and the transfer of this information to the Allied governments, 1941; Pages 5-7: Correspondence between Melech...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Survey Report, Memoirs, Book, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

An article by David Dario Venezia-Nitzan regarding the rescue of many Thessaloniki Jews, including his father Shmuel Venezia, by the Italian consul Guelfo Zamboni during the Holocaust

File Number : 730

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

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

To be translated

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Drora Carmen Haviv Davidoff, born in 1941 in Paris, about persecution of family and her experiences in France

Testimony of Drora Carmen Haviv Davidoff, born in 1941 in Paris, about persecution of family and her experiences in France Parents originally from Bukhara; emigrated to France after the revolution; German occupation of France ensues in 1940; persecution begins; a Jewish doctor born in Bukhara initiates a rescue campaign; defines those from Bukhara as non-Jewish adherents of Mosaic faith; distribution of protective documents by the Persian consul in Paris; families saved; witness's brother concealed by a communist family in the countryside; Zionist education after the war; immigration to Israel in 1962.

File Number : 14385

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Baruch Beyth, born in Bleicherode, Germany in 1931, and Dan Beyth, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel in 1936, regarding their family's experiences in Bleicherode before their aliya to Eretz Israel in 1936 Information regarding their family in Bleicherode; their family members earn their livelihood in the textile industry; their uncle Hans Beyth works as the chief assistant of Henrietta Szold; arrival of Nazi battalions to the streets; their family obtains aliya certificates with the help of the British Consul in Berlin, Captain Francis Edward Foley (later recognized by Yad Vashem as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aliza Alicja (Hiter) Gilon, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the special Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Aliza Alicja (Hiter) Gilon, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the special Bergen-Belsen camp Her family's move to Katowitz for economic reasons, 1937; German occupation, 1939; her father's flight to Uzbekistan and loss of contact with him; deportation of the family to the Krakow Ghetto; receipt of nine forged passports through the consul for Guatemala and Honduras in Switzerland with the help of a Swiss relative; deportation of the family to the Montelupich prison in Krakow in order to verify their identity; transfer to a special camp in Bergen-Belsen; falling sick...

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 115

Type of Material : Notebook, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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