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Visa to Japan for Daniel Gudes, born in Mikielewszczyzna, Poland, 1914, including a certificate issued in his name by the Polish Legation in Kaunas, 05 August 1940

Visa to Japan for Daniel Gudes, born in Mikielewszczyzna, Poland, 1914, including a certificate issued in his name by the Polish Legation in Kaunas, 05 August 1940 Visas to Japan was granted to Daniel by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Vice-Consul in Kaunas (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); the cousin, Zerach Warhaftig, obtained visas to Japan for Daniel, his father Shimon, and his brother Zvi Hirsch, escape of Daniel to Kobe, 1940; aliya to Eretz Israel via Burma and India, 1942. The file includes: - Newspaper clipping from "Hazofe" describing the story of a Holocaust survivor from a...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Article, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Japanese

Testimony of Dora Shemaria, born in Rhodes, Italy, 1920, regarding her experiences in Rhodes, Athens, Auschwitz and Rome

Testimony

Testimony of Dora Shemaria, born in Rhodes, Italy, 1920, regarding her experiences in Rhodes, Athens, Auschwitz and Rome Her childhood in Rhodes. Imposition of anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions during the fascist regime, 1938; German Army occupation of Rhodes, 1943; deportation to Athens along with the Jews of Kos, July 1943; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; life in Auschwitz including forced labor; transfer to labor camps in Germany, including Landsberg; liberation by the British Army or the Red Army, 1945. Move to Rome with help from Italians, 1945; life in Rome with help from the Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Survey of the situation of the Jews in the Nazi occupied countries and the political situation in the Eretz Israel region and the Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, speeches by leaders and from letters, June 1943 - Germany: Incitement program against the Jews in the press; Hitler-Jugend activities; lists of confiscated Jewish property as recorded in the press; - Slovakia: Transfer of Jewish land to Slovakian farmers; deportation of most of the Jews "to the East"; the phenomenon of conversion to Christianity among the Jews; - Hungary: Statistics regarding the spread of the "Jewish...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Report

Language : Hebrew

Newspaper articles with memoirs of the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry during the war, 1952-1966

Newspaper articles with memoirs of the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry during the war, 1952-1966 Memoirs of Buko Lazarov, 1952, and events that transpired in Bulgaria during March 1943 in response to Benjamin Arditti's book; The Role of King Boris III in the deportation of Bulgarian Jewry; Memoirs of Dr. Sh. H. Romano, 1953, on the events that transpired during March 1943; Memoirs of Itzhak Mitrani on the activities of Prof. Balabanov and Bulgarian representatives in Turkey; Articles on the history of the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry; Memoirs of Viktor Baruh on the protection of Jews by Nedko Kableshkiv from...

File Number : 291

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Bulgarian, French, German

Newspaper articles with information on Jewish partisans in Bulgaria and France, 1954-1964

Newspaper articles with information on Jewish partisans in Bulgaria and France, 1954-1964 Newspaper articles with information on partisans and underground members Beniamin, Mati Rubenova, Ana Ventura, Violeta Lakova, Nichko Natan, Sinto Arrama, Iosif Levi, Vitka Levi, Clara Salomova, Clara Levi, Isak Talvi, Dubavitzki and Perz Kamhi; Memoirs of Robert Melamed; Article with memoirs of Bulgarian Jews on the Zionist movement; Memoirs of David Iosifov from Pleven on the events on March 1943; Memoirs of Itzhak Mizrachi on the activities of the Rescue Committee in Eretz Israel and Turkey.

File Number : 290

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Reports written by the Bulgarian Ambassador N. Balabanov in Ankara on the Jewish problem in Bulgaria

Reports written by the Bulgarian Ambassador N. Balabanov in Ankara on the Jewish problem in Bulgaria Reports written by the ambassador in a letter to Benjamin Arditti, 21 October 1960, including information on Balabanov's meetings with Hirshman, representative of the United States President Roosevelt in Ankara, March-August 1944; the meetings focused on the cancellation of anti-Jewish legislation in Bulgaria and the release of the illegal immigrant ships from Vita and Pirin in Bulgaria that were waiting in the Port of Burgas. The file also includes: Information of the activities of Balabanov in France...

File Number : 268

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian

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

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), Telegram, Testimony, Reports, Postcard, Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Official and legal documentation regarding legal steps taken to achieve the forfeiture of Nazi assets and property in Austria, including Mauterndorf Castle belonging to Hermann Göring and property belonging to Martin Bormann in Braunau, and regarding various Nazis, 1947-1952 Included in the file: - Expropriation proceedings; - Assessment by experts; - Details regarding Hermann Göring's family background, Jewish family members and his relationship with Hermann Epenstein; - Details regarding a top-secret conference of Nazi industrials, held in the "Rotes Haus" Hotel in Strasburg, 10 August 1944,...

File Number : 827

Type of Material : Newspaper, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the representatives of the Polish Foreign Ministry in Eretz Israel and in the United States regarding Jewish life in Mandatory Palestine, commercial ties between Poland and Palestine, the influence of the Jews in the United States, and antisemitism in Poland, 14 February 1923 - 28 July 1939 Information supplied by the Chief Representative of Poland in Jerusalem for the period 14 February 1923 - 28 July 1939 regarding life in Mandatory Palestine: Relations between Jews and Arabs; the Balfour Declaration of 02 November 1917; a secret report, dated 20 January 1939, concerning trade relations...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Reports

Language : Polish

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