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Invitation to a festive meal arranged in honor of Yitzchak Grinboim, posted by the Federation of General Zionists-Kibbutz Ichud Hanoar Hazioni in the Leipheim DP camp[

File Number : 1334

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Announcement of a lecture by the Zionist leader Yitzchak Grinboim, posted by the Federation of General Zionists-Kibbutz Ichud Hanoar Hazioni at the Leipheim DP camp

File Number : 1324

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Meir Grajewski Ronen, born in Jedwabne, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Siberia and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Grajewski Ronen, born in Jedwabne, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Siberia and Kazakhstan From a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and at school; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; deportation to Siberia; transfer to Kazakhstan; life in Kazakhstan including studies at a vocational school and hospitalization due to gas poisoning; end of the war. Return to Poland, 1946; displays of antisemitism including pogrom in Kielce; joins the Bericha organization and Hechalutz movement; illegally crosses the border to Czechoslovakia; aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Speeches delivered before the Zionist Organization's conference in Eretz Israel, 28 December 1944

Speeches delivered before the Zionist Organization's conference in Eretz Israel, 28 December 1944 Speeches of David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Eliezer Kaplan and Elia Dobkin before the Zionist Organization in Eretz Israel, 28 December 1944.

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Shmuel Lebenmir, born in Wielun, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Chelmno, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Kaufering

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Lebenmir, born in Wielun, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Chelmno, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Kaufering Life before the war; celebration of religious holidays; the Jewish community; learns in a "heder"; relations with the neighbors. Air-raids by the German Air Force; round-up of Jews in a church; deportation to Chelmno; death of his wife and daughter in Chelmno; transfer to Lodz; sealing of the ghetto; ghetto life; deaths from starvation; the Jewish police; marriage in the ghetto; birth of a daughter; deportation of Jews in the hospitals; liquidation of the ghetto;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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, Note, Correspondence, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Telegram

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

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944 Page 4: Letter from Chaim Pazner, Geneva, to Zionist organization member Kubo, [most probably A. L. Kubowitzki], partly in code, 07 January 1944, regarding: - Veteran certificates for Isaac-Leon Elbaum and his family; - A veterans list, containing 69 families or individuals, sent by the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, transmitted by the Foreign Office, London, via the Protecting Power, Bern, to the responsible authorities in Germany; - Registration for the exchange; -...

File Number : 131

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

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945 Pages 4, 28-35, 40-41, 43, 49: Letters from Dr. Chaim Pazner to Wenia Pomeranietz, Istanbul, regarding: - Brief news concerning various persons, mentioned mostly by first name; - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, destruction of Jochanan's quarter (probably in reference to the Warsaw Ghetto), 12,000 [German Army] soldiers, some Jews rescued on account of tunnels, 15 April-18 May 1943; - Information in code concerning endangered Polish Zionist movement members; - Establishment of a Zionist asylum for young refugees; - Deteriorating situation...

File Number : 129

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Letter(s), Correspondence, Copy, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

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 : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English, German

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