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Documentation regarding illegal aliya ships from Bulgaria

Documentation regarding illegal aliya ships from Bulgaria Report issued by the Central Consistory regarding the circumstances of the sinking of the illegal immigrant ship, "Salvador", including preparation of the ship and its passengers, and the reasons for its sinking, January 1941; - Correspondence (by telegram) between Haim Eshaya in Burgas and the Jewish community in Vidin regarding attempts to organize illegal immigrant ships to Eretz Israel, May 1944.

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Telegram

Language : Bulgarian

Memoirs of historic events that transpired in Burgas, Varna and Pleven, 1936-1944

Memoirs of historic events that transpired in Burgas, Varna and Pleven, 1936-1944 Memoirs of Jacque Toledo who was the former head of the Jewish community in Varna, his activities and activities of the Jewish community, 1936-1943; Construction of the illegal immigrant ships "Salvador" and "Dorian II, 1939-1941; roles of Dr. Confino Losif, Barlap and Prudkin; camp for the Jews who stayed in Ignatievo; bribes to clerks in Sofia to avoid the use of the ship "Struma: that sunk with Romanian Jews aboard after a year; Memoirs of Avraham Asa who presided as the deputy head of the Jewish community in Burgas on the...

File Number : 259

Type of Material : List of Deportees, List of Names, Survey

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Documentation on illegal immigrant ships from Bulgaria via Bulgaria and on aliya from Bulgaria, 1939-1965

Documentation on illegal immigrant ships from Bulgaria via Bulgaria and on aliya from Bulgaria, 1939-1965 Publication of the Central Consistory on the "Salvador" ship tragedy including a committee report on the checking of the accounts of Dr. Baruh Confino who arranged the illegal immigrant aliya, 1939-1941; Correspondence of the Central Consistory of the bank and the Zionist organization in Sofia on the sailing of the ships "Struma", "Salvador" and others and the allocation of certificates and the aliya from Bulgaria; Articles written by Dr. Baruh Confino and Hayim Keshales. The file also...

File Number : 149

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Survey Report

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, French, Ladino

Testimony of Chaim Yashaya, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1904, regarding his experiences in Burgas and Smedovo

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Yashaya, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1904, regarding his experiences in Burgas and Smedovo Life before the war; activities as the local chairman of the Zionist organization; coordination of aliya to Eretz Israel of Jews from Hungary and Bulgaria in the context of Aliya Bet. Anti-Jewish decrees; camp life in Smedovo; end of the war. Zionist activities; aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 3277

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nissim Buko Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1898, regarding his experiences in activities as a public figure in Sofia, Berlin and Turkey

Testimony

Testimony of Nissim Buko Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1898, regarding his experiences in activities as a public figure in Sofia, Berlin and Turkey Public work as a chairman of the World Zionist Organization and the deputy chairman of the Central Jewish Consistory in Sofia; situation of the Jews of Bulgaria between World War I and World War II. Visit in Berlin regarding an Aliya Bet plan for illegal aliya via Bulgaria, late 1939; contacts with Recha Freier and Dr. Leo Baeck; unsuccessfull attempt regarding the plan; life in Bulgaria before the acceptance of the anti-Jewish legislation; attitude of the...

File Number : 3458

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Keshalis, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1907, regarding his experiences as a Zionist activist in Plovdiv

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Keshalis, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1907, regarding his experiences as a Zionist activist in Plovdiv Life in Plovdiv including activities as a Zionist leader. Zionist leadership activities in Plovdiv. Aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 3371

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Weingarten, born in 1935 in Dresden, Germany, about the experiences of his family in Germany, escaping to Austria, Italy, and Bulgaria, and immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Weingarten, born in 1935 in Dresden, Germany, about the experiences of his family in Germany, escaping to Ausstria, Italy, and Bulgaria, and immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940 Offspring of a secular family in Dresden; father disengages from family because he left the Jewish faith; mother disengages from family due to death of her mother and remarriage to father; father is a shopkeeper; mother works for father as a bookkeeper; Nazi authorities draw up a list of customers of the shop and bar customers from entering the shop; shop closes for lack of customers; searching for a new job; father...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew