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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 diplomatic missions of the United States in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of Jews and rescue attempts, August-December 1944 Pages 1-15: Telegrams from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington and from McClelland in Switzerland to the War Refugee Board (WRB) regarding the situation of the Jews in Budapest, rescue possibilities and rescue attempts, August 1944; Pages 16-17: Report from London regarding a debate in Parliament regarding the provision of...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Correspondence and reports by the WRB (War Refugee Board) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of the Jews and rescue efforts, 1943-1944 Page 1: Message from the US State Department to the US Consul in Istanbul with a summary of what was said by the Hungarian Minister of the Interior, Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, during a discussion in the Hungarian Parliament regarding the illegal infiltration of Jews into Hungary, December 1943; Pages 2-4: Memorandum by H. W. Emerson from the US Embassy in London summarizing a...

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Telegram

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

Various documents regarding the Nazi era in Romania and more

Various documents regarding the Nazi era in Romania and more Included in the file: - Typewritten document, in Hungarian, November 1941, (pp. 2-5), - Newspaper clippings, in Romanian, (pp. 6-9), - Article by Dr. Josef Ebner, titled "Historical Observations Regarding the Hitler Era in Romania", published as a special edition by the "Zeitschrift fuer die Geschichte der Juden" (Journal for the History of the Jews), Tel Aviv, (pp. 10-22), - Yahrzeit calendar in memory of Ella Mariska (Reiter) Jakob-Vajda, died on 20 January 1931, (p. 23).

File Number : 4709

Type of Material : Calendar, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Article, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Romanian, German, Hungarian

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Testimony on "labor battalions" in Baia-Mare, Stanislawow, and Kosow; escaping into the Russian-occupied zone; "Aktion" in Huszt ghetto.

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish, Hungarian

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