M.84 - Documantation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia
The Record Group was created following the division of the former Yugoslavian Record Group - M.70. In the Record Group there is archival documentation photocopied from the Central Archive of Serbia, the Military Archive, and the Foreign Ministry Archive.
Included in the Record Group:
- Documentation of the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile including the Foreign Ministry, from the World War II period and afterwards;
- Documentation regarding rescue activities of Jews in the areas of Yugoslavia during the war period;
- Investigations...
Language : Italian, English, German, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian
Testimony of Aleksander Sander Englender Emed, born in Center, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion, in Ozd, Miskolc and Budapest
From a well-to-do assimilated estate-owning family; Christian and Jewish education; attends a Protestant high school; training to work in the estates.
German occupation, March 1944; drafted to labor battalions, April 1944; release from labor in exchange for a bribe; deportation to Ozd, May 1944; help from the housekeeper whom his grandmother had adopted; transfer to Miskolc in freight trains, May 1944; looting of property by the local population;...
Archive of Rabbi Shaul Weingort: Letters on various matters including aid and rescue, refugee support in Switzerland, Jews deported to Bergen-Belsen, and personal affairs, 1943-1944
Envelopes 840-860
Envelope 840:
- Personal letters in French from Gemeine Yules Moch to Madam Weingort, December 1943 - August 1944;
Envelope 841:
- Letter from Samuel Isi Graudenz to Dr. Weingort, 10 October 1943, requesting that he forward a letter to Dr. Zerach Wahrhaftig in N.Y. and another to his sister-in-law Regina's sister, Miss Leni Garboweik in N.Y. He also asked to send a postcard to his daughter-in-law in...
File Number : 47
Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation, Postcard, Reports, Draft, Envelope, Financial Accounts, Poster, List of Survivors, Letter
Archive of Rabbi Shaul Weingort: Correspondence regarding relief and rescue efforts - primarily for detainees of Vittel, dated 1944.
Envelopes 800-815, 817-836
Envelope 800:
- Telegram content for Shaul Weingort from J. Rosenheim and Fraenkel, New York, 14 January 1944. The Paraguayan government informed the United States government that it does not recognize the validity of passports issued by its representatives without its knowledge. A similar notice was delivered to the Intergovernmental Committee in London and the Spanish government. “Do your utmost to rescue the Kornitzer and Fraenkel...
File Number : 46
Type of Material : Letter, List of Detainees, Telegram, Protocol, Record of Persecuted Persons, Postcard, List of Persecuted Persons, Record of Survivors, Draft
Documentation containing protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, 1944
Deportation of Jews; murder of Jews; underground activities; rescue possibilities; possibilities of aliya to Eretz Israel; situation of refugee Jews in Hungary.
File Number : 3
Type of Material : Survey Report, Reports, Protocol
Letters written by members of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest and sent to the officials at the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency in Istanbul regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, rescue attempts and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944
Included in the file:
Letters of Joel Brand in Eretz Israel regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, rescue attempts and aliya to Eretz Israel.
Testimony of Meir Sapir, born in Kassel, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Fulda, Frankfurt am Main until Kristallnacht and Switzerland
His parents work in commerce; attends school; death of his father; move to his aunt's in Fulda; life in a Jewish orphanage in Frankfurt am Main; Kristallnacht; move with his brother to Switzerland, 1938.
Life with a Swiss farmer including work; attends an agricultural school; establishment of a farm for Jewish children; liberation.
Move to France, 1945; aliya to Eretz Israel.
Two essays written by Isaak Naimovich and Matey Yulzari regarding the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry
- "Who Rescued the Jews of Bulgaria From the Death Camps?", an essay written in Bulgarian by Isaak Naimovich regarding the importance of the Communist Party in the struggle against the anti-Jewish legislation and its implementation;
- "Participation of the Jews of Bulgaria in the Underground and Their Rescue from Extermination", an essay written in Bulgarian by Matey Yulzari from a Communist point of view.
Also in the file:
An English translation of Naimovich's essay.
Deportation order from Sofia, 30 May 1943, and a newspaper article marking 20 years since the rescue of the Jews of Bulgaria, 30 August 1964
- Deportation order for the four members of the family of Moshe Isak Leon from Sofia to Russe, 30 May 1943;
- Article from the "Ma'ariv" newspaper marking 20 years since the rescue of the Jews of Bulgaria and in memory of the people who went down with the ship, "Salvador", 30 August 1964.
Memoirs of Jews from Bulgaria regarding the events of March 1943
- Report submitted by the police in Burgas regarding the danger of deportation and the atmosphere among the Jews of Burgas, including Communist activities, March 1943;
- Circular sent by the Ministry of the Interior to the regions regarding additional deportations of the Jews of Sofia;
- Memoirs of Yako Baruh, Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel representative, regarding the events of 09 March 1943.
File Number : 50
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs