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Documentation of the Beatenberg refugee camp in Switzerland and administrative correspondence on matters concerning the camp, 1943-1945

Documentation of the Beatenberg refugee camp in Switzerland and administrative correspondence on matters concerning the camp, 1943-1945 The file contains: Page 1: Article published in the weekend supplement of the "Neue Zuericher Zeitung" ("New Zurich Daily Paper") regarding the refugee camps in Switzerland: social, emotional and financial aspects; relations with the local population; work and utilization of leisure time; Pages 2-9: Request by the Swiss government to prepare evaluations of the Beatenberg camp staff; and the evaluations that were prepared following the request, January 1945; Pages...

File Number : 68

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Administrative Documentation, Survey Report, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation and correspondence of the Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager fuer Emigranten in der Schweiz (Central Management of Labor Camps for Immigrants in Switzerland) regarding the labor camp for refugees in Switzerland, 1940-1945 Original files of the Central Management of Labor Camps for Immigrants in Switzerland. Volume I: Pages 1-12: Article by Friedrich Sues, administrator of the Geisshof camp near Bremgarlen, explaining the "moral, ethical and political-educational concept" behind the refugee camps in Switzerland; Pages 13-19: Impressions of Mrs Dr. R. Kaegi-Fuchsmann following a visit to...

File Number : 66

Type of Material : Survey Report, Article, Charter, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Financial matters, and specifically, the exchange of telegrams with members of Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee) in Istanbul regarding the financing of relief operations for the Jews of France, Hungary and Slovakia, 1943-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-2: Transfer of funds from "Kibbuz" [kibbutz?] (via Richard Lichtheim and Venja Hadari) to Chaim Pazner in Geneva, May 1943; Page 3: Financial report regarding relief operations sent to Goldin in Istanbul, apparently from Geneva, undated; Pages 4-49: Exchange of letters, primarily telegrams, between Chaim Pazner and the [Eretz Israeli] Office in...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Correspondence regarding rescue activities, primarily with the staff of the [Eretz Israel] Office in Istanbul, 1940-1944

Correspondence regarding rescue activities, primarily with the staff of the [Eretz Israel] Office in Istanbul, 1940-1944 The file contains: Pages 1-15: Correspondence regarding rescue, primarily with the staff of the [Eretz Israel] Office in Istanbul, Melech Neustadt, Chaim Barlas, Venja Pomerantz, L. Leder and other Jewish activists; Pages 16-22: Letters containing information regarding the extermination of the Jews in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Greece, the situation of the Jews in Bulgaria, rescue operations in Switzerland and the issue of immigration to Eretz Israel, 1943; Pages 23-32: Reports...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Documentation and correspondence, primarily regarding rescue activities, with the [Eretz Israel] Office in Geneva, and transmitting information to the free world regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland, 1941-1974 The file contains: Pages 1-4: Correspondence between Dr. Chaim Pazner and Professor Edgar Salin, the British Consul in Switzerland, regarding receiving information concerning German policy on the countries it occupied, including information on the extermination of Polish Jewry and the transfer of this information to the Allied governments, 1941; Pages 5-7: Correspondence between Melech...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Survey Report, Memoirs, Book, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Correspondence of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, including criticisms regarding the lack of cooperation between the staff of the Geneva and Istanbul Offices as well as among themselves, and ongoing requests for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel], 1943-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-9: Correspondence, particularly regarding the dispute between Chaim Barlas in Istanbul and Richard Lichtheim in Geneva, 1943; Pages 10-60: Correspondence, particularly between Richard Lichtheim and Nathan Schwalb, Chaim Pazner, Melech Neustadt, Chaim Barlas, Itzhak Gruenbaum, Eliahu Dobkin, 1944; Page...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Correspondence with Chaim Barlas, Melech Neustadt, Venja Pomerantz and others regarding the establishment of a relief and rescue committee in Geneva and separation of the budgets of the Histadrut Labor Organization and the pioneer movements, 1942-1945 The Committee was called the " triumvirate", "quartet", and the like, at different stages. Pages 1-9: Letters from the early days of the triumvirate and its activities, December 1942; Pages 10-100: Letters and telegrams regarding the Committee and its activities. Criticism regarding its work methods, financial irregularities, together with ongoing...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Labor Movement and Ichud activities, especially regarding survivors and refugees, 1943-1948

Labor Movement and Ichud activities, especially regarding survivors and refugees, 1943-1948 The file contains: Pages 1-4: Correspondence between Chaim Pazner and Chaim Barlas regarding Istanbul-Geneva work relations and a letter from Dr. Joseph Fischer regarding the transfer of Jews from camps in Germany to Switzerland, 1943; Pages 5-78: Correspondence of Chaim Pazner with Melech Neustadt regarding help for Holocaust survivors from Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt who arrived in Switzerland, Jews from the Netherlands, and other survivors, 1945; Pages 79-130: Telegrams and letters from Melech...

File Number : 43

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Yiddish

Correspondence with Melech Neustadt, Secretary-General of World Ichud, regarding activities on behalf of the Labor movement and the Ichud, 1942-1945

Correspondence with Melech Neustadt, Secretary-General of World Ichud, regarding activities on behalf of the Labor movement and the Ichud, 1942-1945 Correspondence with Melech Neustadt, Secretary-General of World Ichud, regarding establishing contact with members of the movement in Nazi occupied countries (Poland, Hungary, etc.) and attempts to organize escape and aliya to Eretz Israel, attempts to centralize the rescue activities and to establish a rescue committee in Switzerland; the Ichud movement in Switzerland. The file also contains: Two articles from the South African newspaper, "The Zionist...

File Number : 42

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German, Yiddish

Correspondence with the Vaad Hatzala (the Rescue Committee) in Istanbul regarding rescue and relief, 1943-1944

Correspondence with the Vaad Hatzala (the Rescue Committee) in Istanbul regarding rescue and relief, 1943-1944 Correspondence with the Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul (mainly with Melech Neustadt) regarding rescue and relief. Also in the file: - A "Dear Brothers" letter from Moshe Shertok addressed to all "the those faithful to Zion in the European Diaspora" regarding the efforts of the Eretz Yisrael community to come to their assistance, late August 1943; - Review of the Hakibbutz Hameuhad conference in Givat Brenner, published in the "Davar" newspaper, according to the reports, 14 January, 1944; -...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter

Language : German