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List of Jews who lived in hiding in Belgium during the Holocaust, prepared by the Belgian branch of Vaad ha-Hatzala - the Rescue Committee of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis

File Number : 743

Type of Material : List of Orphan Children, List of Survivors

Language : French

תיעוד של וועד ההצלה בארה"ב

M.76 - Documentation of the Vaad ha-Hatzala in USA The vaad Hatzala was created by the Executive Committee of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada at an emergency meeting held in New York on November 13-14, 1939. While the organization's headquarters were located in New York, branches were established throughout Europe both during and after the war, including Germany, France, and Switzerland. The directors of these foreign offices were appointed by the Executive Council. The organization's initial purpose was to raise funds for groups of rabbis, yeshiva students and their families...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation of the Belgian section of the Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis), 1946-1947

File Number : 743

Type of Material : Photograph, List of Orphan Children, Letter, List of Survivors, Official Documentation, Reports

Language : French

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

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 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

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding matters related to Sweden, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies regarding matters related to Sweden, 1944 Page 1: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to Johnson and Olsen in Sweden, transmitted via the US Embassy in Stockholm, with a request to intensify diplomatic activity on behalf of Hungary following reports that mass exterminations had begun there, 23 May 1944; Pages 2-3: Telegram from the WRB to the US Embassy in Ankara regarding assistance from the Swedish Government in attempting to convince the Germans to permit the transfer of refugees from Constanza to...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

A report from a meeting of the Rabbinical Committee in the United States on September 11, 1941 and two letters on the subject of rescuing the Jews of Europe

1. The meeting was also attended by guests. Among the topics: participation of a Jewish delegation in the Polish National Council. Ben-Gurion, who also attended this meeting, reported on his meetings with the Aguda in Mandatory Palestine, on the White Paper, on Jewish work, on the economic situation, on aliya to Eretz Israel, on his meetings with representatives of the British government regarding the establishment of Jewish army units, and cooperation between the Jewish Agency and the Agudath Israel Council. 2. Rozenheim's letter of December 2, 1942 to M. I. Levin, which addresses the deportation and murder...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter

Language : Hebrew

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding negotiations with Himmler to rescue Jews at the end of the war, including a protocol from the interrogation of Walter Schellinger; testimonies and letters of the Vaad Hatzala (Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis); a report by the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) and more, 1944-1948 In the file: Pp. 1-56: Protocol of the interrogation of Walter Schellenberg, head of the political intelligence service at the Reich Head Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), regarding negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for the release of Jews from...

File Number : 148

Type of Material : Protocol, Photocopy, Testimony, Newspaper Clippings, Survey Report

Language : French, English, German

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