Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון

The Pinhas Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research /

Lavon Institute

Address

17 Kehilat Kiev Street, PO Box 24104
Tel Aviv Yaffo
Tel Aviv
6941012
Israel

Phone

+972-3-6452974
+972-3-6452983

Fax

+972-3-6452975

Email

lavonins@amalnet.k12.il

Web

https://lavonins.org.il/%d7%90%d7%95%d7%93%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%9b%d7%95%d7%9f/

Building(s)

The Lavon Institute is located in the amalalid network complex of the pedagogical-technological centre.

Archival and Other Holdings

The archive holds documents of birth, marriages and death. There are oral testimonies on microfilms and on audio-tapes. The languages of documents are: Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Russian, Polish, German, Spanish, Romanian. The geographic areas are Palestine till 1948 and then Israel and countries abroad.

Opening Times

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 9:00- 15:00. Friday and public holidays: the archives are closed. it is advisable to plan the visit to the archive in advance.

Sources

YV/ClaimsCon'06
The Israel Genealogical Society website consulted on 04/11/2014

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Copies

Cyprus internment camps

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Makhon le-ḥeḳer tenuʻat ha-ʻavodah ʻa. sh. Pinḥas Lavon
DP camp collection (RG VII-126)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Makhon le-ḥeḳer tenuʻat ha-ʻavodah ʻa. sh. Pinḥas Lavon
Nathan Schwalb papers/Hechalutz Office Geneva

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Makhon le-ḥeḳer tenuʻat ha-ʻavodah ʻa. sh. Pinḥas Lavon
Selected records of the Holocaust collection: Postwar testimonies and Jewish Social Mutual files (RG VII-123)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Makhon le-ḥeḳer tenuʻat ha-ʻavodah ʻa. sh. Pinḥas Lavon

Archival Descriptions

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Liaison Office of the Hehalutz in Geneva – Archive Nathan Schwalb.
- Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון
- IL / Lavon Institute / III-37A
- English
- 1924-1993
- 793 files.
- Updated 6 years ago
In this fonds we find several files which are of importance to our subject. First of all we note a number of files explicitly referring to Belgium. File 1-30 (“Hehalutz Belgium”) contains correspondence (dated 1940-1946) with members of the movement and includes a report on the situation of the Jews in Belgium during the occupation. In the file titled “Belgium” (file 1-135, dated 1940-1946) we find correspondence with the national leadership of the movement as well as with messengers; this file includes lists of members of Gordonia Maccabi Hatzair (October 1945), copies of letters from memb...
League for Labour Palestine.
- Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון
- IL / Lavon Institute / III-69
- English
- 1923-1968
- 195 files.
- Updated 6 years ago
This fonds contains 3 relevant files. File nr. 493-1 (dated 1921-1968) contains announcements, invitations, minutes of meetings, reports, press (incl. Folk un Arbet) and correspondence between Nathan Schwalb (for the Histadrut) and the Belgian Ministry of Public Works, concerning compensation for damages to the property of the League for Labour Palestine in Belgium, destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. It also includes testimonies of two former members of the organisation. In file nr. 493-2 (dated 1929) we find announcements for a lecture of a Belgian member of parliament (most likel...
Zerubavel Jacob.
- Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון
- IL / Lavon Institute / IV-104-58
- English
- 1907-1962
- 146 files.
- Updated 6 years ago
This fonds contains several relevant files. We firstly note the correspondence of Zerubavel, in which we also find (copies of) letters (and sometimes circulars) of the Belgian section of Ahdut Ha’Avodah and of various correspondents in Belgium. See the files nr. 30, 33A, 33B, 34 and 60. They resp. cover the years 1922-1961, 1933-1962 and 1957-1962. Lastly, file nr. 29 contains, among others, documents related to the conference of Poale Zion held in August 1946 in Brussels.
Persecutions, pogroms, self-defense, help to victims.
- Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון
- IL / Lavon Institute / VII-22
- English
- 1881-1945
- 14 files.
- Updated 6 years ago
In file 493-11 titled “Belgium” we find announcements for events organised by the Jewish communities in Brussels (in 1946).
Orphanages, children’s homes.
- Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון
- IL / Lavon Institute / VII-260
- English
- 1945-1951
- 1 file.
- Updated 6 years ago
File 44-2 contains, among others, circulars regarding the organisation of vacations for orphans (years 1945-1946) in Belgium.
Religion (facilities, synagogues, various religious organisations).
- Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון
- IL / Lavon Institute / VII-37
- English
- 1917-1950
- 6 files.
- Updated 6 years ago
File 5 titled “Belgium” contains documents concerning events organised by the Jewish communities in Brussels (in 1946).

Lavon Institute for Labour Research / המכון לחקר תנועת העבודה ע"ש פנחס לבון

Copies

Archival Descriptions

Liaison Office of the Hehalutz in Geneva – Archive Nathan Schwalb.

League for Labour Palestine.

Zerubavel Jacob.

Persecutions, pogroms, self-defense, help to victims.

Orphanages, children’s homes.

Religion (facilities, synagogues, various religious organisations).