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Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944 Pages 22, 24 (?): Incomplete dispatch (No. 7454) from the US Legation, Bern, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the proposed program of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the relief of Jewish refugees and other persecuted groups in enemy territory, 02 March 1944; Page 2: Enclosure No. 1 to dispatch No. 7454 from the US Legation, Bern, to the President of the ICRC, Geneva, regarding the provision of food and medicines for Jews and other...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Official Documentation, Telegram, Correspondence, Memorandum, Note, Letter(s)

Language : French, English

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), October-December 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), October-December 1944 Pages 3-5: Correspondence between the Secretary of State, Washington, and delegations of the WRB in Jerusalem regarding emigration from Bulgaria to Eretz Israel via Turkey, 06 October 1944; Page 6: Telegram from Cordell Hull, Department of State, Washington, to the US Legation, Bern, regarding the report that Anna and Rosa Frumkin and Eugenia Gorlin are in Bergen-Belsen, 03 October 1944; Pages 7-8: Telegram from Cordell Hull, Department of State, Washington, to the US Embassy, Ankara, regarding the...

File Number : 135.1

Type of Material : Memorandum, Official Documentation, Correspondence, Telegram, Letter(s), Note

Language : English

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), June-September 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), June-September 1944 Page 3: Telegram from the US Consulate, Jerusalem, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the already implemented deportation of 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Poland; the imminent deportation of the 350,000 remaining Jews and the required measures for intervention, 29 June 1944; Page 4: Telegram from Cordell Hull, State Department, Washington, to the US Consulate General, Istanbul, regarding efforts by the Jewish Agency to rescue 2,600 refugees, 04 July 1944; Pages 5-8: Letters from the US Embassy,...

File Number : 135

Type of Material : Letter(s), Memorandum, Correspondence, Telegram, Official Documentation, Note

Language : English

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), March-June 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), March-June 1944 Pages 4-9: Memorandum of John W. Pehle, War Refugee Board (WRB), to Mr. Stettinius, to be used as a basis for negotiations with the British Government, 10 March 1944; - Seeking cooperation with the British Government in order to rescue Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime, - Emphasis on the sincerity of the agency and discussions regarding relations with the Intergovernmental Committee; - Attitude towards the Eretz Israel issue, no intention of taking a position in support of establishing a Jewish national state...

File Number : 134

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Correspondence, Memorandum, Telegram, Letter(s)

Language : English

Documentation regarding rescue efforts of Jewish organizations during the war, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, emigration attempts and the postwar handling of Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust in general, 1943-1973 Pages 101-122: Notes of a member of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam) regarding the situation in the Netherlands, most probably 1943: - Initial anti-Jewish decrees, 1940, including the ban on ritual slaughter, 31 July 1940; - Dismissal of Jewish officials, November 1940; - Anti-Jewish propaganda, early 1941; - Brawls between the Nationaal-Socialistische...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Efforts to rescue Dutch and Belgian Jews, 1942-1945

Efforts to rescue Dutch and Belgian Jews, 1942-1945 The Netherlands Page 3: Report regarding the situation of the remaining Jews in the Netherlands, deportation of Jews, with the exceptions being persons holding certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] or South American passports, or Jews gaining their freedom through bribery, Jews in hiding; forced sterilization of Jewish partners in mixed marriages, 16 October 1943; Page 4: Appeal of the Jewish Council Emigration Department in "Het Joodse Weekblad" ("The Jewish Weekly") for those holding a certificate or with close relatives in Eretz Israel,...

File Number : 127

Type of Material : Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence, Letter(s), List of Names, Copy, Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : French, German

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

Testimony of Alexander Awraham Cohen, secretary of the Joodse Centrale voor Beroepsopleiding (JCB - Jewish Central College) born in Nijwegen, the Netherlands, 1896, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands and the activities of the JCB, 1940-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, February 1957: - Treasurer of the Deventer Vereniging (Association), later secretary of the JCB; - Origins of the JCB, the umbrella association of the Hachshara (aliya training) groups in the Netherlands, established due to...

File Number : 5111

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German