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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944 Pages 1-5: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the US legation in Algiers, in response to the wishes of Algerian Jews to receive certificates [for legal aliya] to Eretz Israel, including a report regarding the activities of the US President [Roosevelt} and the WRB regarding the absorption of refugees from Europe in the United States, including the decision by the President to transform the Army camp of Fort Ontario to a refugee camp; efforts by the US to enable the...

File Number : 107

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

Documentation regarding the relief provided by International Jewish relief organizations to survivors in Poland and newspaper clippings on the subject of the survivors and the need for immediate relief, 1943-1944 - Telegram from Emil Sommerstein, Chairman of the Committee for Relief of the Polish Jews from Lublin (published by the United Jewish Relief Appeal) with an appeal for immediate relief for the Jewish survivors with food, medicines and shelter, 13 September 1944; - Invitations to meetings and deliberations regarding the relief for survivors in Poland sent to Ignacy Schwarzbart by the United Jewish...

File Number : 270

Type of Material : Telegram, Document, Newspaper Clippings, Invitation, Letter, Survey

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

"Krakow's Jews Imprisoned in Plaszow Are Fighting for their Lives - The Industrialist Rescuer of Jews, Oskar Schindler, his Jewish Workers, and Their Connections to the Yishuv Delegation in Kushta", an article written by Eliyahu Stern, which appeared in the "Dapim" journal, published by the Holocaust Research Institute, the joint Institute of Haifa University and Beit Lochamei Hagetaot, in 5748 (1988) The author claims that Oskar Schindler began to help Jews only after it was possible to predict the defeat of Germany. Until then, like many other German businessmen, Schindler grew rich from the exploitation...

File Number : 314

Type of Material : Research Article, Article

Language : Hebrew

"Overview from the Diaspora" by K. Klausner regarding the condition of the Jews in the eastern European countries and concerning welfare methods required for their rescue, dated 27 January 1944

"Overview from the Diaspora" by K. Klausner regarding the condition of the Jews in the eastern European countries and concerning welfare methods required for their rescue, dated 27 January 1944 Condition of the Jews still alive in hiding places, on the Aryan side, in the forests with the partisans, in labor camps and in concentration camps; efforts to rescue them concentrate on secretly crossing the border to Romania, Slovakia and Hungary with Christians in exchange for money; the problems in caring for those rescued from a medical point of view and the large expenses involved in doing so; sources for the...

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Article by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski which was published in the "Gazeta Ludowa" newspaper, 08 April 1946, regarding the role of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) in the relief and rescue of Jews throughout occupied Poland Bartoszewski gives an overview of the structure and personal composition of the administration of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) as an underground organization that acted with the approval of the Polish Government-in-Exile for the relief and rescue of the remnants of the Jews in Poland during the time of the mass extermination and afterwards. The organization personnel were active in...

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Polish

Correspondence regarding rescue activities of Hungarian Jews, 1943-1945

Correspondence regarding rescue activities of Hungarian Jews, 1943-1945 The file contains: Page 1: Hebrew translation of the letter by Joel Brand to Saly Mayer regarding negotiations with the German regime regarding the rescue of Hungarian Jews in exchange for payment, 25 April 1944; Pages 2-3: Letter from Joel Brand to Nathan Schwalb in Geneva cautioning him as his letters are reaching Adolf Eichmann, 31 May 1944; Page 4: Letter from Chaim Barlas to M. W. Beckelmann of the JDC regarding the Kasztner Affair, 04 June 1947; Pages 5-7: Story for the press (for immediate publication) from the JDC...

File Number : 29

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Documentation of the Jewish community, from the Archive of Riksakivet, Sweden, 1938-1977

Documentation of the Jewish community, from the Archive of Riksakivet, Sweden, 1938-1977 Main Collection: Register of survivors from 1945 who later immigrated; documentation regarding payments, 1930-1950 Refugees section: registration of refugees in Sweden; card file regarding finances; correspondence and records related to fundraising; registration of deported Jews; Child arrivals: Card file of refugee children; Registration department, 1944-1948: register of deported Jews; registration of Jewish emigrants in Sweden who were deported; registration of Jews, in the series of card files in...

Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation, Personal Card File, Card File

Language : Swedish

Correspondence by HIJEFS activists in Montreux with organizations and public figures active in the area of rescue and help in Budapest, Bucharest and Istanbul during 1944-1945, and additional documentation regarding efforts to rescue Jews - Translation to Hebrew of documents related to the release of Kurt Becher and a de-Nazification document (Entnazifizierungsurkunde VI/2959) that was issued to him, and a partial translation of a document describing ways to obtain entrance permits to various countries (see pp. 89-91); the translator's name is unknown; - "Memorandum über die jetzige Lage der Juden Ungarns...

File Number : 606

Type of Material : Telegram, Declaration, Memorandum, Correspondence, Financial Records, Journal, Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German, Yiddish

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