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

Language : French, English

Correspondence of Saly Mayer, Executive Secretary of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland (SIG) with organizations and Jewish public figures regarding David Frankfurter, 1936-1941

Correspondence of Saly Mayer, Executive Secretary of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland (SIG) with organizations and Jewish public figures regarding David Frankfurter, 1936-1941 - Sending of most of the letters from public figures, Jewish legal experts and Jewish organizations including the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Paris and the Agudas-Achim Congregation in Zurich to Saly Mayer in St. Gallen in his capacity as SIG Executive Secretary; - Letters sent by David Frankfurter's brother (pp. 37, 62-63); - Letters sent by Josef Messinger, the preacher and cantor of the Berne Congregation, a...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

P.35 - Nathan Schwalb Collection: Nathan Schwalb was the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

P.35 - The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross,...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Aharon Alfred Dov Gellis, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1918, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in hiding in a bunker and in a private transport of the Kasztner train to Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Alfred Dov Gellis, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1918, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in hiding in a bunker and in a private transport of the Kasztner train to Switzerland Life before the war; move to Bratislava; life in Bratislava including education. Absorption of refugees; collaboration by Slovakians with the Nazis; pogroms implemented by Slovakians; attacks on the Jews by the Hlinka Guard including looting; deportations to labor camps; concentration of the Jews in the district city; deportation of the Jews in transports to Poland, 1942; contact with Rabbi Weissmandel;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

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

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

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

Correspondence and reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests to receive and transfer funds from organizations in the United States for rescue purposes, May-November 1944

Correspondence and reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests to receive and transfer funds from organizations in the United States for rescue purposes, May-November 1944 Pages 1-3: Requests from Norweb in Lisbon to the WRB to transfer funds to Saly Mayer and to the Jewish Agency in Switzerland, May 1942; Pages 4-5: Report regarding the sums of money that the WRB can transfer to Sweden and to Norway, for support of Jewish Christians, among others, June 1944; Page 6: Report from the Jewish Distribution Committee (JDC) to the US Embassy in Lisbon, sent via the WRB;...

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

Reports by US diplomatic representations in Europe to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding relief and rescue operations for the Jews of Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, May-October 1944 - Page 1: Report that was sent from the US legation in Bern, Switzerland, to the WRB regarding the supply of food to Jews from Croatia who are interned in camps in Serbia, 13 May 1944; - Pages 3-6: Report from the US legation in Bern regarding extrication of children and other rescue activities of Romanian Jews and refugees in Romania with the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross...

File Number : 89

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

Language : English

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