Keren HaYesod

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn526530
• English
• 1882-1941
• 70 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm approximately 74,1000 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Records of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece, 1882 to 1941. The collection consists of minutes, legal ordinances, correspondence, books of debtors, ledgers of accounts, various bank documents, statistics, census, and private papers relating to Jewish community meetings, cooperation with other Jewish communities in Greece and abroad, financial operations, real estate and construction, religious affairs, family status (birth, marriage and death records, genealogy, etc. 1882-1940), education and culture, welfare and health, Jewish organizations and Zionist movement, famil...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516504
• English
• 1920-1940
• 188 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection contains correspondence files with local branches of the Karen Hayesod across Lithuania from 1920 to 1940 concerning a registration of local organizations fundraising activities for the Jewish settlements in Palestine before World War II. Also includes minutes and correspondence of Zionist organizations worldwide, local banks, Lithuanian government authorities, bylaws of the organization and its branches, a donors list, cashiers books, and financial reports.

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611132
• English
• 1869-1939
• 248 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm approximately 500,000 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection consists of the organization charts, minutes, reports, circulars, correspondence, announcements, administrative and financial documents, bulletins, newspaper clippings, and the catalog of books held by the organization’s library. Most of materials originate from 1920s and 1930s and relate to organization’s activities as: organizing professional courses for young people, organizing conferences to protect Jewish communities from antisemitism, building educational curricula and publishing journals of the Jewish youth leagues “Ring” and “Herzlia,” admitting new members and distri...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43569
• English
• 1946-1964
• 35,274 digital images, PNG 33 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains records of Israeli delegations in various countries of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including the records of Zionist organizations abroad such as Youth Aliyah and Keren Hayesod. Features reports on the Jewish situation including Jewish refugee and DP camps after the war, negotiations with immigration agencies, cultural material that was prepared and sent around the world, and various other documentation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44054
• English
• 1925-1948
• 113,052 digital images, JPEG 147 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains various records from the Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, including correspondence of the World Zionist Organization offices; the Jewish Agency offices in London; newspaper offices in different countries; the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod in different countries; and correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations and with the League of Nations. Also among the records are correspondence regarding the transfer of funds from various countries; immigration to Israel; the Zionist Congress; reports about the persecution o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn512886
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The document invites the recipient to a fundraiser for Keren Hayesod, the financial branch of the World Zionist Organization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611148
• English
• 1926-1941
• 15 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 27,955 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection includes community registration documents, bylaws, minutes, court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces, financial documents, instructions on teaching at schools, Contains also registers of members, photographs of the community members, numerous documents on the religious life and special services, and documentation on the transport of Jewish refugees from Western and eastern Europe to Palestine via Greece. Majority of collection constitute official communal correspondence: correspondence of the chief rabbinate and Athens community leaders with Greek central and municipa...

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611149
• English
• 1926-1941
• 72 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm approximately 149,000 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection contains registration documents of the Jewish community of Salonica (Thessaloniki), including meeting minutes of the Jewish Community Council; candidate lists for emigration; materials of the community's refugee committee; lists of refugees; applications for permission to relocate to Palestine, and documents on the life of Jewish settlers in Palestine; minutes and decisions of the Beth Din (mostly on damage cases); marriage contracts; financial accounts of charities; information about schools; diverse documents including rent receipts, a memorandum to the government regarding...

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn615076
• English
• 1929-1940
• 22 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 48,402 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

This collection contains office records of the Jewish National Foundation (Karen Kaemeth Leizrael, K.K.L.), whose headquarters were in Paris and which was known as the "Fund National Juif." Topics include meetings and conferences, activities of local branches, Zionist propaganda, the celebration of Jewish holidays, and raising money for Palestine. Documents include declarations; circular letters and instructions; activity reports; meeting minutes of the Executive Committee; lists of commissariats of the organization in France and North Africa; name lists of "authorized representatives" and ...

1. The Jewish Religious Community in Prague under the occupation
2. III. Department (Fachabteilungen)
3. Department for Emigration
4. Emigration Support
5. List of places for settlement map of Erec Israel, issued by Keren Hajessod, Prague

• Židovské muzeum v Praze
• DOCUMENT.JMP.ARCHIVE/312/III/1/a/063/001
• Czech, English
• 1940
• Updated 9 years ago

• Associciation for Support of Jewish Palestine (Karen Hayesod), Lithuanian Branch, 1920‒1940

• Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
• F. 590
• English, Lithuanian
• 1920-1940
• 2 subfonds and 836 files. Some documents are handwritten.
• Updated 1 year ago

"This collection consists of records and correspondence files with local branches of the Karen Hayesod across Lithuania from 1920 to 1940, concerning the registration of local organizations and fundraising activities for the Jewish settlements in Palestine before World War II. The collection also includes minute meetings; correspondence with Zionist organizations worldwide, local banks, and Lithuanian government authorities; bylaws; donor lists; cashier books; and financial reports" (From: USHMM finding aid).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn557385
• English
• 1933-1989
• 2,447 digital images, JPEG 4 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn557384
• English
• 1897-1975
• 65,954 digital images, JPEG 34 microfilm reels, 16 mm 9 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

Personal papers of Fritz Ullmann (1902-1972). The collection consists of memorandums and correspondence relating to Jewish immigration, wartime rescue activities, the sending of relief packages into concentration camps and ghettos, and the Zionist movement.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523393
• English
• 1921-1939
• 15 microfilm reels, 35 mm
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection includes fundraising appeals, circulatory letters of the Central Bureau of the organization in Jerusalem, annual reports concerning various activities of the organization in the region during the interwar period. The bulk of collection consists of various correspondence files with the local branches of the organization, sister organizations worldwide and membership lists.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn611479
• English
• 1944-1950
• 64 digital files, PDF
• Updated 7 months ago

Records of the Social-Political Department of the City Board in Warsaw concerning Jewish associations from the post-war period: Correspondence, registration or refusal of registration, lists of associations, reports on activities, statutes, lists and members and personal files.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn531013
• English
• 1887-1945
• 388,821 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 7 months ago

Correspondence, minutes, reports, statistics, registers, etc. of various government offices (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, Police Department, Credit Unions, State Chancery, Tax Office, Banks, etc.) and Jewish organizations, banks and schools (Jewish National Committee, Cultural Autonomy of the Jewish Minority, Jewish communities of Tallinn and of Tartu, Jewish Cooperative Bank, etc.). The collection includes records related to the confiscation of the Jewish property (by the Soviet and German authorities 1940-1945), nationalization of the Tallinn J...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558451
• English
• 1850-2002
• 40,975 digital images, PDF
• Updated 7 months ago

Private papers of Veit Wyler (August 28, 1908 - October 18, 2002), attorney, Swiss refugee aid worker, Jewish community official, and Zionist delegate. The collection consists of photographs, certificates from schools, doctoral studies, military service records, records of his early activities as a lawyer, files of the federal prosecutor, documentation of his commitment to Jewish refugees and of the David Frankfurter trial, autobiographical writings and reports, private and business correspondence, honors, press articles, obituaries, a diary, poems, records of his family history, edited new...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn105764
• English
• 1925-1939
• 6,025 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Various records related to the activities of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YiVO) in Wilno (Vilnius), including correspondence with Jewish organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia and other countries; records related to the activities of various Jewish organizations and political parties (Zukunft, Bund, Po'alei Zion, Keren Kayemet, Keren Hayesod, etc.); copies of Jewish newspapers published in Poland; financial records, and registry for incoming and outgoing correspondence etc.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn59327
• English
• 1927-1950
• 74,146 digital images, PDF
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains documentation of the Zionist parties and organizations that operated in Poland after the war. Includes organizational files, protocols of council meetings, correspondence, applications for emigration, personal files, materials for publication, bulletins, and files of regional branch offices of the following organizations: the Ichud, Ha-Noar Ha-Cijoni, WIZO-Women`s International Zionist Organization, Organization of General Zionists (Organization of General Zionists– Hitachdut Cijonim Klaliim) and Ha-Owed Ha-Cijoni, Jewish Zionist-Socialist Labor Party Poalej Syjon C.S. Hitachdut, G...