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

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

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

Rescue operations for the Jews of Greece, 1943-1945

Rescue operations for the Jews of Greece, 1943-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-5: Two reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Athens. The reports contain information, among others, regarding German actions against the Jewish population, help provided by the local Greek population, escape of Jews to other countries or to forests and joining the partisans, the camps where Jews were interned, abuse of inmates by the Germans, and the cost of basic supplies in Athens at the time the report was compiled, October 1943; Pages 6-10: Letter from L. Benveniste in Lausanne dealing with Jewish citizens of...

File Number : 38

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Correspondence regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary, Auschwitz and rescue efforts, particularly in Hungary, 1943-1945

Correspondence regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary, Auschwitz and rescue efforts, particularly in Hungary, 1943-1945 The file has two volumes. Volume 1: Pages 1-6: Letter from Moshe Krausz to Chaim Pazner regarding the deportation of Hungarian Jews and a description of Auschwitz extermination camp, 19 June 1944; Pages 7-11: Telegrams and summaries of correspondence between Chaim Pazner, Moshe Krausz, Chaim Barlas and Itzhak Gruenbaum (who also wrote letters to additional people) regarding the letter from Moshe Krausz, June-July 1944; Page 12: Warning from the US Government to the...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Letter, List of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Protocol, Telegram, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

Request for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for the Jews in Belgium, 1940-1945

Request for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for the Jews in Belgium, 1940-1945 Pages 1-177: Correspondence between the Eretz Israel Office (Palaestina Amt) in Geneva, the Jewish Agency executive in Jerusalem, the Jewish Agency office in Geneva (primarily R. Lichtheim) and the Eretz Israeli office in Istanbul (with M. Neustadt and Barlas) with Jewish political leaders in Belgium regarding the requests for certificates, especially for the Zionist movement veterans in Belgium who are slated for exchanges or for aliya; Pages 178-224: Various reports regarding the situation of the Jews in...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Survey Report, List of Persecuted Persons, Statistical Data, Telegram, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : French, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews in Poland, Polish Jews in Switzerland, and Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1940-1944

Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews in Poland, Polish Jews in Switzerland, and Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1940-1944 1) Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews in the Generalgouvernement in Poland, mainly with the help of the Juedische Soziale Selbsthilfe - JSS (Jewish Social Self-help) organization in Krakow, 1940-1942, and with the help of the JUS-Juedische Unterstuetzungsstelle fuer das GG (Jewish welfare office in the Generalgouvernement) in Krakow, 1943-1944: - List prepared by Avraham Zilberstein - chairman of the RELICO Committee to help...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Correspondence, Survey Report, List of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding claims submitted by various bodies regarding money that was used for relief to Jews in Hungary and Slovakia; documents dated, 1943-1948

Documentation regarding claims submitted by various bodies regarding money that was used for relief to Jews in Hungary and Slovakia; documents dated, 1943-1948 - Documentation regarding the claim submitted by L. Kertesz [apparently to the JDC], including a letter sent to Saly Mayer by the JDC regarding the claim by L. Kertesz, 24 September 1946; - Documentation regarding the claim submitted by the "Shomrey Hachomot" Kollel [apparently to the JDC], including correspondence between Saly Mayer and Richard Lichtheim, a member of the Zionist Organization administration and a Jewish Agency representative in...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding the JDC organization's support of a group of Jewish refugees in Kladovo, aside the frozen Danube River; documentation dated, 1939-1950

Documentation regarding the JDC organization's support of a group of Jewish refugees in Kladovo, aside the frozen Danube River; documentation dated, 1939-1950 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Moshe Averbuch Agami, an Aliya Bet activist in Geneva, regarding relief to Jewish refugees who stayed in Kladovo due to the frozen Danube River, winter 1939-1940; - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Richard Lichtheim, the head of the Jewish Agency in Geneva [regarding the Jewish refugees in Kladovo]; - [Documentation titled] "Ein Brief Von der Donau-Auswanderer - Palaestina", including a description of...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Correspondence, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English, German