Schneersohn Isaac

1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3689638
• English, Hebrew
• 1963-1964
• Original 396 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) correspondence including copies in chronological order, 1963-1964 In the file: - Letters to newspaper editorial boards; -Correspondence with the WJC (World Jewish Congress), specifically with Gerhard Riegner; the CDJC (Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), specifically with Isaac Schneerson; various Jewish Swiss personalities, for example, Georges Brunschvig, Georg Guggenheim, Alfred Goetschel; Jean Nordmann and Robert Wieler; Paul Vogt, the Protestant minister...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn556063
• English
• 1944-1953
• 8,505 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 6 months ago

Records related to Military Tribunal in Nuremburg, the creation of the U.N., work on humanitarian aid and human rights with international organizations, Monneray's work as a jurist, as well as books and articles, and his involvement with the Jewish community.

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4438362
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 45 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Nahum Hermann, born in Shargorod, Ukraine, 1899: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in France; activities as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Keren Hayesod (United Israel Appeal); establishment of the CDJC (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center) with other people. Outbreak of the war; work as a foreign correspondent for "The Jewish Morning Journal" newspaper; work for newspapers from Eretz Israel; activities in the underground AJ (Jewish Army); taken captive in Limoges during an attempt to transfer money to OSE (Children's A...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558390
• English
• 1940-1942
• folders 19
• Updated 6 months ago

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...