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Testimony of Yehuda Kahana, born in Halmeu, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in the Kiev area, Doroshich and as a POW in Soviet captivity

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Kahana, born in Halmeu, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in the Kiev area, Doroshich and as a POW in Soviet captivity Life before the war; learns in yeshivas; community life; membership in youth organizations; arrival of refugees from Poland; military service as a cavalryman in the Romanian Army; displays of antisemitism in the army. Re-annexation to Hungary; drafted into a labor battalion, 1942; life in the battalion including forced labor and typhus; transfer in the direction of Kiev on foot; concentration of the Jews in stables in Doroshich;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Language : English

Documentation regarding relief and rescue activities during the Holocaust, including reports in the press, journals and books, and correspondence, 1933-1974

Documentation regarding relief and rescue activities during the Holocaust, including reports in the press, journals and books, and correspondence, 1933-1974 Newspaper and Journal Reports regarding the Relief and Rescue Activities of Dr. Pazner, pp. 3-47: Pages 4-5: Newspaper clipping from the "Koenigsberger Zeitung", containing a critique of Prof. Dr. Bruno Rogowsky, longstanding headmaster of the Commercial College in Koenigsberg, his influence on this institution and his liberal and pro-Jewish (judeophile) attitude, mentioning Chaim Pazner, who would even be sent to Russia for studies at the expense of...

File Number : 133

Type of Material : Correspondence, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s), Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

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

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

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding relief for Jews, also following liberation, primarily in Hungary, and rescue attempts, 1944 Included in the file: Volume 1 (pages 1-105): Pages 1-2: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department in Washington, notifying of the illegal entry into Hungary of thousands of Jews from the neighboring countries, 23 December 1943; Pages 3-7: Letter from the US consul in Istanbul to the US State Department including the testimony of a Polish...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Statistical Data, Telegram

Language : English

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding rescue attempts, caring for refugees and obtaining visas in Spain and Portugal, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding rescue attempts, caring for refugees and obtaining visas in Spain and Portugal, 1944 Pages 1-3: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the US Embassy in Bern regarding Jews with Portuguese citizenship presently in Greece and in danger of deportation, 06 May 1944; Pages 4-6: Telegram from the WRB to the US Embassy in Lisbon regarding US efforts to influence the Spanish and Portuguese Governments to permit the transfer of refugees from Greece and the Balkans to Spain and Portugal, 25 April...

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Telegrams of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding help from the Turkish government for rescue activities, 1944

Telegrams of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding help from the Turkish government for rescue activities, 1944 Pages 1-2: Telegram from the US Embassy in Ankara to the War Refugee Board (WRB) regarding the transfer of French Jews with Turkish citizenship to Turkey, 16 May 1944; Pages 3-4: Telegram from the WRB to the US Embassy in Ankara regarding the safeguarding of the rights of Jews in France holding Turkish citizenship; mention made that the United States is requesting from Spain as well to become involved in the efforts for Jews with Spanish citizenship being detained in Greece; a...

File Number : 104

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Correspondence between Otto Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Association) and Jewish institutions regarding the aliya of Jewish children from Zagreb to Eretz Israel, February 1942-March 1943 - Correspondence between Otto Komoly and representatives of the Jewish community in Zagreb; - Correspondence between Otto Komoly and Chaim Barlas, Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel representative in Kushta (Istanbul); - Correspondence between Otto Komoly and Miklós Krausz, head of the Eretz Israel Office in Budapest.

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Correspondence, Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : German, Hungarian

Articles, literary excerpts and correspondence regarding the extermination of the Jews, rescue operations and personal documents, 1980

Articles, literary excerpts and correspondence regarding the extermination of the Jews, rescue operations and personal documents, 1980 Included in the file: Page 1: Letter from John W. Pehle to Mr. Byron Price regarding contacts with the Gestapo to release refugees in the [Nazi] occupied countries, 15 September 1944; Pages 2-3: Draft of a telegram and a letter from Chaim Pazner to Eliezer Kaplan in Istanbul (handwritten, in German), 13 March 1943; Page 4: Excerpt from a letter (reduced photocopy, illegible), 12 December 1942; Page 5: Telegram from [David] Horowitz to Chaim Pazner regarding...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Letter, Book, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Survey Report, Newspaper, Research Article, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French, English, 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 : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Article, Money, Telegram, Financial Accounts, Personal Documents, Letter

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

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