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Testimony of Gila Frida (Dolberg) Kerem, born in Putna, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Gila Frida (Dolberg) Kerem, born in Putna, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto Life before the war; move to Cernauti; her parents' deaths. Deportation to a ghetto; murder of Rabbi Mark; deportation of relatives to Transnistria; draft of Jews to forced labor; yellow badge; mayor's intervention in an effort to prevent transports of the Jews; German retreat and Soviet occupation. Move to Dorohoi; marriage; obtains an aliya permit; aliya to Israel, 1950. Continuation of interview: 27 November 2007 Life in the Cernauti Ghetto; issuing of an identity card; list of...

Type of Material : Identity Card, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

O.20 - Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany Max Lowenthal was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888; a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney and a lifelong public servant; he served as an advisor and personal friend of President Harry S. Truman. In 1946, General Lucius D. Clay, the Deputy Governor of the US Military Government in Occupied Germany, asked various representatives of American Jewish organizations to suggest an advisor who could help Clay in drafting legislation...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Petition (possibly written by Max Lowenthal) addressed to James F. Byrnes, US Secretary of State, in which he appeals for a direct and immediate implementation of the "Pro-emigration-to-Palestine" policy, referring to a statement by US President, Harry S. Truman, 04 June 1946 Petition addressed to James F. Byrnes, US Secretary of State, appealing for direct and immediate implementation of President Truman's "Pro-emigration-to-Palestine" policy statement, from 04 June 1946; the policy would permit 100,000 Jewish displaced persons in Europe to emigrate to Mandatory Palestine...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Letter(s), Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports of Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings and reports regarding the visit of the heads of the Committee in DP camps in Germany and Austria

Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports of Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings and reports regarding the visit of the heads of the Committee in DP camps in Germany and Austria Also in the file: - Reports regarding Committee activities in the Netherlands; - Various surveys regarding the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; - Survey prepared by Jane Leverson regarding Jews in Belgium; - Survey regarding Morris Feinmann, of Blessed Memory, a Committee activist; - Reports regarding the condition of the Jews in Italy, Austria and Greece; - Excerpts from a report sent by Earl Harrison, the US representative...

File Number : 10

Correspondence regarding help for the immigration of refugees and the Zionist movement, Part Two

Correspondence regarding help for the immigration of refugees and the Zionist movement, Part Two - Correspondence regarding the Alliance organization; - Article regarding Jewish organizations (1924, 1936); - Correspondence with the American Christian Palestine Committee, regarding the [British] Mandate in Palestine [Eretz Israel] (1945-1946); - Newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding the anti-Zionist Reform movement in the United States: power struggles with the Zionist movement and [with?] the Central Conference of American Rabbis, struggles within the Reform movement, and supporters and...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Reports, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English

Correspondence regarding refugees and immigration to the United States

Correspondence regarding refugees and immigration to the United States - Personal letters sent by Jews from Europe, with a request for assistance in immigrating to the United States and to Eretz Israel, including a description of their hardships in their country of origin (1921-1936); - Report sent to US President Truman by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, regarding DPs and the DP camps in Europe, including in Germany and Austria, and regarding Eretz Israel and aliya (1945); - Report, including criticism and responses, regarding the immigration laws and restrictions on immigration to the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports

Language : English, German

Correspondence with government personnel, Jewish public activists and non-Jews in the United States, Part Two

Correspondence with government personnel, Jewish public activists and non-Jews in the United States, Part Two - Correspondence with the US State Department regarding Romanian Jewry, United States-Romanian relations (1902), the Yishuv in Eretz Israel under Turkish rule (1915-1918), and the San Remo Conference; main activists: Chaim Weizmann, Louis D. Brandeis, Robert Lansing and Nathan Strauss; Eretz Israel and the British Mandate (1927, 1931, 1936 and 1938); - Correspondence with government personnel and public activists regarding the Jewish Yishuv in Eretz Israel under British Mandatory rule (1938-1939...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Reports, Official Documentation

Language : English

Documentation related to the Holocaust of Romanian Jewry, dated, 1941-2011

Documentation related to the Holocaust of Romanian Jewry, dated, 1941-2011 - Letter written by Michael, the King of Romania, to the Ambassador of Israel in Romania, Joseph Guvrin, on 27/06/1991 (the letter accompanies a copy of the King's Declaration on Racism, 24/06/1991); - Copy of the recommendation of US President Harry Truman, regarding the awarding of a note of commendation to King Michael of Romania for his considerable efforts on behalf of the war by the Allied Forces against Nazi Germany; - Letter by Yad Vashem, written on 27/07/2003 in response to a speech by the President of Romania Ion Iliescu...

File Number : 466

Type of Material : Newspaper, Research Literature, Survey Report, Letter, Article, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, English, Romanian, Russian, German

Interview from the 1970s with former President of the United States Harry S. Truman in which he also speaks about the Jews

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Lectures delivered by Laurence Stern, the historian, regarding former Presidents of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and their behavior towards the Jews

Type of Material : Lecture

Language : English

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