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Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944 Pages 22, 24 (?): Incomplete dispatch (No. 7454) from the US Legation, Bern, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the proposed program of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the relief of Jewish refugees and other persecuted groups in enemy territory, 02 March 1944; Page 2: Enclosure No. 1 to dispatch No. 7454 from the US Legation, Bern, to the President of the ICRC, Geneva, regarding the provision of food and medicines for Jews and other...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Telegram, Letter(s), Correspondence, Financial Accounts, Official Documentation, Note, Memorandum

Language : French, English

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), October-December 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), October-December 1944 Pages 3-5: Correspondence between the Secretary of State, Washington, and delegations of the WRB in Jerusalem regarding emigration from Bulgaria to Eretz Israel via Turkey, 06 October 1944; Page 6: Telegram from Cordell Hull, Department of State, Washington, to the US Legation, Bern, regarding the report that Anna and Rosa Frumkin and Eugenia Gorlin are in Bergen-Belsen, 03 October 1944; Pages 7-8: Telegram from Cordell Hull, Department of State, Washington, to the US Embassy, Ankara, regarding the...

File Number : 135.1

Type of Material : Memorandum, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Correspondence, Note, Telegram

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

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

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

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945 Pages 4, 28-35, 40-41, 43, 49: Letters from Dr. Chaim Pazner to Wenia Pomeranietz, Istanbul, regarding: - Brief news concerning various persons, mentioned mostly by first name; - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, destruction of Jochanan's quarter (probably in reference to the Warsaw Ghetto), 12,000 [German Army] soldiers, some Jews rescued on account of tunnels, 15 April-18 May 1943; - Information in code concerning endangered Polish Zionist movement members; - Establishment of a Zionist asylum for young refugees; - Deteriorating situation...

File Number : 129

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Copy, Letter(s), Telegram, Correspondence

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding rescue attempts and the obtaining of certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for Hungarian Jews, May-December 1944 Pages 1-2: - Letter from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to Yitzchak Gruenbaum at the Jewish Agency (sent via the WRB and the US Consulate in Jerusalem) dealing with the US government's position concerning the issuing of certificates and population exchanges, 06 July 1944; Page 3: - Telegram from London regarding the position of the British government regarding the exchanging of Jews holding...

File Number : 96

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English

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 on matters relating to South American countries, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on matters relating to South American countries, 1944 Page 1: Urgent memorandum in the name of the Polish Ambassador in Washington with an update regarding the transfer of Jews with South American passports from Vittel camp to Drancy camp in France, for the purpose of deportation to concentration camps, and the need to act urgently on their behalf, 02 May 1944; Pages 2-3: Telegram to the US Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, stating that the Vatican is making efforts on behalf of Jews holding Paraguayan...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

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

Letter of protest by Jizchok Sternbuch against the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and a letter by Arie Leon Kubowitzki regarding the fate of his family members who were deported; letters written, 1945-1948 Letter of protest by Jizchok Sternbuch, chairman of the Societe D'Entr'aide Aux Refugies Juifs A L'Etranger, in Montreux, sent to Dr. Arie Leon Kubowitzki, the general director of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), 05 July 1948; Sternbuch protested in his letter to Kubowitzki, that in a report to the Swiss newspapers Kubowitzki attributed to the WJC sole credit for the rescue operation of Hungarian Jewry; the...

File Number : 227

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

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