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Testimony of Gerhart Moritz Riegner born in Berlin Germany, 1911, regarding his experiences in Berlin until May 1933, Paris until 1943 and activities in the World Jewish Congress during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Gerhart Moritz Riegner born in Berlin Germany, 1911, regarding his experiences in Berlin until May 1933, Paris until 1943 and activities in the World Jewish Congress during the war Liberal family; displays of antisemitism in school; law studies; Nazi rise to power, 1933; expulsion from the university; move to Paris, May 1933. Move to Geneva, late 1943; activities as a legal adviser in the World Jewish Congress; activities during the war including requests to receive help from members of the church; telegram to the United States and British governments regarding German plans to exterminate...

File Number : 12735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Documentation regarding rescue efforts of Jewish organizations during the war, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, emigration attempts and the postwar handling of Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust in general, 1943-1973 Pages 101-122: Notes of a member of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam) regarding the situation in the Netherlands, most probably 1943: - Initial anti-Jewish decrees, 1940, including the ban on ritual slaughter, 31 July 1940; - Dismissal of Jewish officials, November 1940; - Anti-Jewish propaganda, early 1941; - Brawls between the Nationaal-Socialistische...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945 Pages 4, 28-35, 40-41, 43, 49: Letters from Dr. Chaim Pazner to Wenia Pomeranietz, Istanbul, regarding: - Brief news concerning various persons, mentioned mostly by first name; - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, destruction of Jochanan's quarter (probably in reference to the Warsaw Ghetto), 12,000 [German Army] soldiers, some Jews rescued on account of tunnels, 15 April-18 May 1943; - Information in code concerning endangered Polish Zionist movement members; - Establishment of a Zionist asylum for young refugees; - Deteriorating situation...

File Number : 129

Type of Material : Correspondence, Telegram, Excerpt(s), Letter(s), Copy

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

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 between Abraham Silberschein and Chaim (Posner) Pazner and Samuel Scheps, heads of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland, 1940-1947

Correspondence between Abraham Silberschein and Chaim (Posner) Pazner and Samuel Scheps, heads of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland, 1940-1947 Correspondence of Abraham Silberschein with the heads of the Eretz Israel office in Switzerland (the office was moved from Basel to Geneva in 1939 due to the outbreak of World War II). Also in the file: - Newspaper clippings [from articles] written in honor of the 80th birthday of Dr. Samuel Scheps, 1984; - Article by Samuel Scheps regarding the Wannsee Conference, the Riegner Cable and denial of the Holocaust, 15 May 1984; - Letter from Samuel...

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

Samuel Scheps: Correspondence regarding the Riegner telegram

Samuel Scheps: Correspondence regarding the Riegner telegram Samuel Scheps: Some correspondence with Martin Gilbert and Avi Pazner plus several other documents regarding the Riegner telegram and the earliest information about the 'final solution'.

File Number : 10200

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Letter(s)

Language : Polish, French, English, German

British government documents about the extermination of the Jews in Poland, 1942

Copies from the British Public Record Office.: British government documents about the extermination of the Jews in Poland, reports about antisemitism of the polish population, reports about the ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz, Crakow etc, about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the suicide of Shmuel Mordecai Zygielbojm, first reports about the annihilation camps and the gas chambers.

File Number : 1705

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English