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List of applicants for certificates, Budapest, July 1944

List of applicants for certificates, Budapest, July 1944 The file contains a list of veteran Zionists and their families in Budapest, sent by Chaim Pazner from Geneva to Chaim Barlas in Istanbul in order to obtain certificates. The list includes names, dates and places of birth, and addresses in Budapest. The list is in Yad Vashem Archives file P.12/30, Vol. 1, pp. 147-148. The page numbers do not necessarily correspond with the frame numbers in the scan.

File Number : 30

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Request for 61 certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for children from the Netherlands

Request for 61 certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for children from the Netherlands Included in the file is a list of 61 children from the Netherlands for whom a request was made for child certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel]; names and birth dates are included in the list. The page numbers correspond with the frame numbers in the scan. The list can be found in Yad Vashem Archives file P.12/22, pp. 160-161; - Pages 157-159: Correspondence of Chaim Pazner and Chaim Barlas with the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Amsterdam Jewish Council) regarding a request to receive 61...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, List of Jewish Survivors, Official Documentation

Language : German

P.12 - Chaim Pazner Archives: Representative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Switzerland during World War II

P.12 - Chaim Pazner Archives: Representative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Switzerland during World War II The record group contains a variety of documentation collected by Dr. Chaim Pazner (Chaim Posner) over the course of his life, mainly while serving as Director of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland. - Files 80-112 include files of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in the United States. - Files 115-126 include personal documentation regarding Pazner's post-war activities including his role as Deputy Chairman of Yad Vashem. Chaim Pazner was born in Kowal, Poland, 04 January 1899....

Type of Material : Financial Accounts, Official Documentation, List of Names, Letter, Telegram, Personal Documents, Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Reports

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation of the Hungarian Jews and the efforts to rescue them, May-December 1944

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation of the Hungarian Jews and the efforts to rescue them, May-December 1944 Page 1: - Report from Harrison in Bern to the WRB regarding a proposal by the Hungarian authorities to exchange Jews for Hungarians captured by the Soviet Union, 27 May 1944; Pages 2-4: - Report by Pinkerton, the US Consul in Jerusalem, regarding deterioration of the situation of the Jews in Hungary and Romania, and the detention of Zionist leaders in these countries, 26 May 1944; Pages 5-6: - Telegram from Steinhardt in Ankara...

File Number : 95

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English, German

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

Language : Hebrew, German

Contacts with Jews in the Nazi occupied countries and reports regarding what is being done there according to countries: Occupied and Free France

Contacts with Jews in the Nazi occupied countries and reports regarding what is being done there according to countries: Occupied and Free France Pages 1-4 - Collection of letters from France describing the situation, September 1943; Pages 5-11: - Copies of reports sent from Geneva: Reports regarding the situation of Jewish refugees in France, 10 March 1943; - Report regarding transports and labor camps for French Jews including statistical data and details regarding the situation of the Jews in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Vienna, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, 15 April 1943; Pages 12-13: -...

File Number : 57

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

Language : French, English, German

Situation of the Jews of Bulgaria and requests for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] on their behalf, 1943-1945

Situation of the Jews of Bulgaria and requests for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] on their behalf, 1943-1945 Pages 1-33: Correspondence between Chaim Pazner in Geneva and Chaim Barlas in Istanbul regarding the requests of Bulgarian Jews for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel], February 1943-June 1945; Page 34: Letter from the Jews of Plovdiv,on behalf of representatives of Zionist-Socialist organizations, requesting a more just distributions of the certificates, 31 March 1943; Pages 35-36: Report regarding the situation of Bulgarian Jews given by a new immigrant from...

File Number : 37

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

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Letters regarding the activities of Chaim Pazner in Geneva in 1945-1949

Letters regarding the activities of Chaim Pazner in Geneva in 1945-1949 Page 1: Letter from Chaim Weizmann to Chaim Pazner regarding financial matters (handwritten, German), 20 August 1947; Page 2: Letter from Eliezer Kaplan to Chaim Pazner regarding administrative matters, 10 September 1947; Page 3: Confirmation from the British Passport Control Office in Geneva, that Chaim Pazner delivered useful information regarding the enemy to the British government,1940-1945, 27 July 1945; Pages 4-7: Correspondence between Chaim Pazner and Eliezer Kaplan, temporary Israeli Cabinet Secretary, regarding...

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Letter, Telegram, Drawing

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Testimony of Chaim Pazner regarding his activities in Geneva, from 1971

Testimony of Chaim Pazner regarding his activities in Geneva, from 1971 The file contains a printed copy of an interview with Dr. Chaim Pazner conducted in the framework of the Oral History Section of the Contemporary Jewry Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Interviewed by Eliyahu Sasson. Pages 1-9: Interview no. 1: The circumstances of the arrival of Chaim Pazner in Switzerland and the beginning of his activities in the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva. Most of his activity consists of the utilization of certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] and the transfer of refugees and...

File Number : 113

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe on various issues related to rescue attempts, and testimonies regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 The file includes copies of documents found in other files in the records group. Volume 1: Pages 1-16: Summary from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC - Red Cross) in Geneva regarding the activities of its delegates concerning the question of emigration of Balkan Jews, March 1942-April 1943, including details of their connections with the Jewish Agency for...

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Diagram, Survey Report, Telegram, Official Documentation, Maps, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : English, German

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