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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

Telegrams and reports, primarily from Harrison in Bern, to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation of the Jews in Slovakia, July-December 1944

Telegrams and reports, primarily from Harrison in Bern, to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation of the Jews in Slovakia, July-December 1944 Page 1: Telegram asking for financial help in smuggling Jews from Hungary to Slovakia, and also for supporting the refugees in Switzerland, 21 July 1944; Page 2-3: Report regarding the terrible situation of the Jews who remained in Slovakia, news regarding the renewal of the deportations; harassment of the Jews by the government which is collaborating with the Nazis; blaming the Jews for the increasing civilian revolt; requesting the...

File Number : 91

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Official documentation from US diplomatic representations in Europe and from the Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis) in New York to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation and extermination of Lithuanian Jews, June-November 1944 Pages 1-7: Report from the US legation in Stockholm including an English translation of an article published in Sweden regarding the situation of Lithuanian Jews under Soviet rule and in independent Lithuania, and their extermination by the German Army, 29 June 1944; Page 8: Request, in the name of Rabbi Isaac Sternbuch in...

File Number : 90

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

Language : English

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and United States diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the mission of Joel Brand and efforts to save the Jews of Hungary, May-December 1944 Page 1: - Telegram from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington regarding the proposal to exchange Hungarian Jews for Hungarian POWs in the Soviet Union and in other countries; 27 May 1944; Pages 2-3: - Copy of a report by the British High Commissioner in Eretz Israel regarding his meeting with David Ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok about the...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

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 : Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

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 : Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Statistical Data

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding rescue and relief activities for Jewish refugees, 1944

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding rescue and relief activities for Jewish refugees, 1944 The file contains: Page1: Newspaper clipping from the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung", ("New Zurich Paper") dealing with US policy towards the refugees; Page 2: Memorandum from the US Government (apparently from one of the Divisions of the State Department) regarding US Government policy towards refugees, 17 May 1944; Pages 3-4: Bilateral declaration by the US Government (the Embassy next to the Polish...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Article, Telegram

Language : English, German

Letter of protest by Jizchok Sternbuch against the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and a letter by Arie Leon Kubowitzki regarding the fate of his family members who were deported; letters written, 1945-1948 Letter of protest by Jizchok Sternbuch, chairman of the Societe D'Entr'aide Aux Refugies Juifs A L'Etranger, in Montreux, sent to Dr. Arie Leon Kubowitzki, the general director of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), 05 July 1948; Sternbuch protested in his letter to Kubowitzki, that in a report to the Swiss newspapers Kubowitzki attributed to the WJC sole credit for the rescue operation of Hungarian Jewry; the...

File Number : 227

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Robert Guggenheim regarding support by the JDC for religious Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and correspondence between Guggenheim and Isaac Sternbuch, 1942-1945

Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Robert Guggenheim regarding support by the JDC for religious Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and correspondence between Guggenheim and Isaac Sternbuch, 1942-1945 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Robert Guggenheim, head of the Agudat Israel [?] political committee for Switzerland, regarding support by the JDC for religious Jewish refugees in Shanghai; - Correspondence between Robert Guggenheim and Isaac Sternbuch, head of the Schweizerischer Hilfsverein fuer Juedische Fluechtlinge im Ausland (HIJEFS).

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Correspondence, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the rescue activities of Isaac Sternbuch and the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and regarding the negotiations for the transfer of inmates from camps to Switzerland; documents dated, 1944-1982 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held between a group lead by Isaac Sternbuch, the Swiss representative of the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and with SS representatives, regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Documentation regarding the petition by the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence, List of Survivors, Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : French, German

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