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Leo Glaeser, born in Riga, Latvia, 1897, known as Louis Garnier; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

Leo Glaeser, born in Riga, Latvia, 1897, known as Louis Garnier; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Founding of the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee); resignation from his work as a financial manager; joins FSJF (Federation of Jewish Societies in France) under the leadership of Marc Jarblum; arrested in Lyon, 20 June 1944; executed, 22 June 1944.

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Documents

Language : French

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 the Jewish underground in France, 1944-1945

File Number : 348

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French, German, Yiddish

Correspondence of the treasurer of the Communauté Israelite de Geneve (CIG - Geneva Jewish Community) regarding assistance to Jewish refugees in Switzerland and to Jews in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1941-1944 - Request of Walter Bickart, resident of Tanger, addressed to the CIG, asking that food parcels be sent to his father Nathan Bickart in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 14 September 1944; - Response of the the CIG Bureau de Bienfaisance (Charity Bureau), 03 October 1944. Also in the file: - Documentation regarding CIG membership dues.

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Names, Official Documentation

Language : French, German

Correspondence and documentation regarding the activity of Chaim Pazner in the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva during the war and following it, in the Jewish community in Geneva, and personal documents, 1933-1956 Page 1: Three banknotes from the Theresienstadt Ghetto that make up a receipt for the amount stated: a five Deutsche Mark bill, 1940, five and ten Danish Krones, 1943; Page 2: Letter (inside an envelope) from the F. Bieryneza family, from the city of Zamosc, Poland, to the Jewish Agency in Geneva (Polish and German), undated; Page 3: A letter from the Supporters of Tyskland Jews non-profit...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Telegram, Official Documentation, Article, Money

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

Rescue operations, France, 1943-1945

Rescue operations, France, 1943-1945 Pages 1-13: Correspondence regarding the Jews of France, requests for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for veteran Zionist activists, rabbis and Vittel camp inmates, and a report regarding the situation of the Jews of France, 1943; Pages 14-80: Correspondence regarding the Jews of France, request for certificates for veteran Zionist activists, rabbis and Vittel camp inmates, a report regarding the situation of the Jews in France and help in hiding Jewish children in France, 1944; Pages 81-88: Incomplete report regarding the situation in France,...

File Number : 36

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

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German, Yiddish

Memoranda and letters regarding the situation of the Jews in Nice and the willingness of the Italian Army to defend the Jews against deportation; secret memoranda of General Avarna Di Gualtieri and more, 1943 The material was created by: Consistoire Central des Israelites de France (Central Consistory of French Jews) Nice Notes and Letters In the file; Memoranda and letters from Rabbi Sin Avram, Joseph Fischer, Samy Lattes and Marc Jarblum regarding the situation of the Jews in Nice, and the willingness of the local Italian army to protect the Jews from deportations, and on the willingness of the...

File Number : 127

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : Italian, French

Protocols from meetings, and reports of the Commission Centrale des Oeuvres Juives d’Assistance (CCOJA- Central Commission of Jewish Relief Organizations), Zone Sud, 1941-1942

Protocols from meetings, and reports of the Commission Centrale des Oeuvres Juives d’Assistance (CCOJA- Central Commission of Jewish Relief Organizations), Zone Sud, 1941-1942 In the file: - Protocols from meetings, and reports of the CCOJA, Zone Sud, regarding the CCOJA's opposition to the establishment of the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), and its appeals on this subject to the Vichy government. Also in the file: - Declarations by three Jewish public figures: Marc Bloch, Rene Milhaud and Benjamin Cremieux against Vichy policy towards the Jews, and in...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Protocol, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : French

Protocols from Comite d’Aide aux Refugies (CAR- Refugees Aid Committee) meetings and CAR memoranda regarding raising funds for helping refugees in southern France, contact with refugees in camps, recruitment of refugees for agricultural work and more, 1940-1942 The material was created by: CAR, Gaston Kahn In the file: Protocols from meetings and memoranda on the raising of funds for helping refugees in southern France, especially in Nice; contact with refugees in the Montpellier camp and the Rivesaltes camp; the possibilities of emigration to Shanghai, and the recruitment of refugees for agricultural...

File Number : 115

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Protocol

Language : French

Receipts for monthly payments by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization that were transferred by Marc Jarblum and Chaim Posner to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1943-1944

Receipts for monthly payments by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization that were transferred by Marc Jarblum and Chaim Posner to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1943-1944 - Receipts for monthly payments by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization that were transferred by Marc Jarblum, the former head of the Federation of Swiss Jewish Associations (FSJF), to Jewish refugees in Switzerland; - [Receipts for] payments [apparently by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization] that were transferred by Chaim Posner, head of the Eretz Israel office (Palestina-Amt) in Geneva [for Jewish refugees in Switzerland], September 1944.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : List of Names, Official Documentation

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