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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), Note, Telegram, Memorandum, Official Documentation, Correspondence

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

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

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

Memoirs of Gabriel Fisher, born in Slovakia, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust as a forced laborer, in the Sahy Ghetto, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt

Memoirs of Gabriel Fisher, born in Slovakia, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust as a forced laborer, in the Sahy Ghetto, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt Jews' situation in Slovakia until 1938. Jews' situation during the Hungarian occupation; forced labor in a concentration camp in Szob; deportation to forced labor in Ukraine; retreat to Poland with the advance of the Red Army; German occupation of Hungary and the ramifications on the life of the local Jews; establishment of the Sahy Ghetto; Sahy Ghetto life; evacuation to a labor camp in Jolsva, near the Slovakian-Hungarian border; forced...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Israel Kastner from Budapest to Nathan Schwalbe, the representative of Hechalutz in Geneva, on 28 July 1944

File Number : 5195

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Letters and other documentation related to Rezső Rudolf Israel Kasztner, from Hungary, Eretz Israel, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and other places, 1944-1979

Letters and other documentation related to Rezső Rudolf Israel Kasztner, from Hungary, Eretz Israel, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and other places, 1944-1979 Comments by the submitter of the material, Dr. Yitzchak Katzir: The documents were in the possession of Dov Dinur, from Haifa.

File Number : 4738

Type of Material : Interview(s), Biography, Letter, Document, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

Correspondence by HIJEFS activists in Montreux with organizations and public figures active in the area of rescue and help in Budapest, Bucharest and Istanbul during 1944-1945, and additional documentation regarding efforts to rescue Jews - Translation to Hebrew of documents related to the release of Kurt Becher and a de-Nazification document (Entnazifizierungsurkunde VI/2959) that was issued to him, and a partial translation of a document describing ways to obtain entrance permits to various countries (see pp. 89-91); the translator's name is unknown; - "Memorandum über die jetzige Lage der Juden Ungarns...

File Number : 606

Type of Material : Telegram, Declaration, Memorandum, Correspondence, Financial Records, Journal, Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German, Yiddish

Collection of documents on Joel Brand's and Rudolf Kastner's actions to rescue Jews from Germany and Nazi occupied countries

File Number : 244

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : English, German

AJDC documents on the situation of European Jews 1944-1945, rescue and aid efforts for Jews under Nazi rule; aid work for liberated Jews in the DP camps

File Number : 193

Type of Material : Letter(s), Reports

Language : French, English, German

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