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  1. Documentation regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives (the "Goods for Blood" deal), including a telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion regarding the transfer of the German proposal to President F. D. Roosevelt, and regarding Saly Mayer's discuss

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives (the "Goods for Blood" deal), including a telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion regarding the transfer of the German proposal to President F. D. Roosevelt, and regarding Saly Mayer's discussions with Heinrich Rothmund, his meetings with Kurt Becher, and other matters, July-September 1944 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held by Saly Mayer with the Germans in the context of the "Goods for Blood" deal ("ARBA") [?] with the aim of delaying the murder of the Jews in Hungary and in the remainder of Europe; - Telegram sent...

  2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    1. World Jewish Congress

    Contains files of WJC departments engaged in relief and rescue work. The series includes files from the Relief Department, Department of European Jewish Affairs, Rescue Department, and Relief and Rehabilitation Department. Files of the Secretary-General of the WJC are included among the files of the Rescue Department director, since Aryeh L. Kubowitzki fulfilled both positions. In the WJC collection, rescue materials were often found interfiled with general Relief Department files. Since the Rescue and Relief Departments were closely related in function and were merged in 1945, the material...

  3. Publications

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Consists of publications (Jewish and non-Jewish, WJC and non- WJC), from various countries and organizations. There are also one or two subject files. Additional publications are scattered throughout the other subseries, but these publications were maintained as a separate subseries to preserve their provenance, as they were kept in that manner by WJC staff. Box H372. Folder 28. Great Britain, 1942, 1953 Box H372. Folder 29. Israel, Gesher, 1962 Box H372. Folder 30. Israel, World Conference on Jewish Education; An Interim Report, 1962 Box H373. Folder 1. Japan, The Seventh World Conference ...

  4. Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות - חומר על מצב היהודים בארצות הכיבוש הנאצי - מס. 5/36

    Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943 Poland: Deportation of Jews to labor camps and rescue of many from the Warsaw Ghetto; Frank's speech regarding the Germans in Warsaw and blaming the Jews for the war; signs of resistance to the Nazi government by farmers not reporting for work; attacks on Gestapo personnel; Volksdeutsche in areas of Poland annexed to the Reich: Germany: The suffering of the German people while at war; opposition to granting an exemption from anti-Jewish legislat...

  5. Documentation regarding the rescue activities of Isaac Sternbuch and the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and regarding the negotiations for the transfer of inmates from camps to Switzerland; documents dated

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the rescue activities of Isaac Sternbuch and the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and regarding the negotiations for the transfer of inmates from camps to Switzerland; documents dated, 1944-1982 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held between a group lead by Isaac Sternbuch, the Swiss representative of the Vaad Ha-Hatsala of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and with SS representatives, regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Documentation regarding the petition by the Vaad Ha-...

  6. Memoirs of Halina (Raps) Ashkenazi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and being hidden by a Polish farmer

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957
    • (Ostatnia droga (pamietnik

    Memoirs of Halina (Raps) Ashkenazi, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and being hidden by a Polish farmer Life before the war. Air-raids by the German Army; standing in line for bread an entire night and then Jews being thrown out of the line by the Poles; life in the winter without heat, 1939-1940; escape to a place for destitute Jewish refugees, spring 1940; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; family home turned into a meeting place for smugglers due to its having a telephone with a working line; mass deaths from spotted typhus epidemic, 1942; de...

  7. Memoirs of Piroska (Fischer) Zuck, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, and using a false identity in Budapest

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

    Memoirs of Piroska (Fischer) Zuck, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, and using a false identity in Budapest Life before the war; from a large family; Orthodox school for girls established by her father; Establishment of an independent Slovak state, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation including a ban on owning radios and fur coats; death of her father, 1942; marriage to Smuel Zuck from Nyitra and rescue from deportation of unmarried Jewish women, 21 March 1942; deportation of her sisters and her brother together with their families to Auschwitz, 194...

  8. Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1940-1945

    1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1940-1945 - Correspondence with Zionist movements, rescue organizations, embassies, international Jewish organizations, and more; -Letters, reports, protocols and messages mainly regarding the rescue of the persecuted Jews in German occupied Europe; some letters are written in encrypted language and contain hidden messages; - Correspondence including reports regarding the Jewish Order Police in the Warsaw Ghetto signed by S. Silberstein, Henryk Nadel and H. Auerswald (translated into Hebrew); - Copy of a protocol signed by B. Zabludowski...

  9. The Zionist Organization / The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel – Central Office, London.

    Firstly, we note in this fonds several series of correspondence which are of interest to this guide. Files Z4/30867 - Z4/30870 contain correspondence regarding “Zionist work” in Belgium (for the years 1927-1946). Correspondence on immigration from Belgium (often with lists of immigrants) and family research can be found in the files Z4/32408 to Z4/32412 (1943-1947). Various correspondence (regarding i.a. immigration, the Golden Shekel, donations, Zionism in Belgium, …) with the Belgian Zionist Federation and the Zionist Organisation in Belgium is found in files Z4/40030 (1920), Z4/40342 (19...

  10. HIAS – European Office in Paris.

    The (sub)series in this fonds contain several interesting files regarding Belgium. Series 1 contains emigrant case files, arranged by destination country. For Belgium, see folder nrs. 5851-5853; for the former Belgian Congo, see folder nrs. 3087-3092. This series also contains a fairly large number of files entitled “International” and “Miscellaneous international”, which might also contain case files of people migrating to (or from) Belgium. In Series 2 (“AJDC Paris Office Correspondence”) there is a section on Belgium, holding 5 folders. Folder nr. 5988 contains statistical reports (1951-...

  11. Ministerstvo vnitra I., Praha

    • Ministry of Interior I., Prague
    • NAD 1075
    • Národní archiv
    • 1075
    • English
    • 1918-1948
    • The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

  12. Verwaltungsschef im Militärbezirk Łodź Szef Zarządu Cywilnego Okręgu Wojskowego w Łodzi (Sygn. 175)

    This collection contains records of the various departments of the Verwaltungsschef im Militärbezirk Łodź (Administrative Office of the Military District of Łódź), of the German occupation authorities. The records include office documents, journals of ordinances beginning on Sept. 19, 1939, daily ordinances, headquarters ordinances, reports of the Committee of Citizens of the city of Łódź, documents relating to personnel matters of the employed officers, operations against Polish leaders, German minorities in Poland, membership of the NSDAP, exchange of prisoners of war and war refugees b...

  13. Gunther Rice memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, 42 pages, entitled “A New Letter to my Children” written by Gunther Rice, originally of Hamburg, Germany, as a letter to his children. In the memoir, he describes the lives of his large family in Hamburg, his childhood, and education. He describes his memories of the family’s arrest and deportation to Zbaszyn on the border of Poland in October 1938, since his parents were Polish citizens. In the summer of 1939, Gunther left his parents and traveled to England as part of a kindertransport, first living with a foster family in Cardiff and later in London.

  14. Leo Arnfeld papers

    1. Leo Arnfeld collection

    The Leo Arnfeld papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and a satirical pamphlet documenting the Arnfeld family in Warsaw, Sara and Leo Arnfeld in the Warsaw ghetto, Chaim Arnfeld in Vilnius, Kobe, and Shanghai, and Leo Arnfeld’s postwar life in Munich. The collection also includes cosmetics and pharmaceutical labels and sample from Chaim Arnfeld’s pharmacy in Warsaw. Biographical materials consist of business cards, identification papers, and a prescription documenting Chaim Arnfeld’s situation and work in Shanghai. Correspondence consists primarily of letter...

  15. Loewenstein family papers

    1. Loewenstein family collection

    The Loewenstein family papers consist of biographical materials, emigration and immigration correspondence, and photographic materials documenting the Loewenstein family of Koblenz, Ernst and Guy Loewenstein’s refuge in Belgium, Hede and Sali Loewenstein’s refuge in England, and their efforts to immigrate to the United States and be reunited. The collection also includes a handful of Red Cross correspondence documenting the Loewensteins’ efforts to trace someone named Kathi Loeb. Biographical materials include identification, registration, and travel papers and vaccination certificates docu...

  16. Sketchbook created by young Jewish girl

    1. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

  17. Morris and Lala Fishman papers

    The Morris and Lala Fishman papers consist of identification papers, photographs, and printed materials documenting Lala Fishman’s displaced persons status after the Holocaust, her life in the Hasenhecke and Möncheberg displaced persons camps, Morris Fishman’s work as JDC director of the displaced persons camps in the Kassel, Passau, and Regensburg regions, and their marriage. Identification papers consist of Lala Fishman’s D.P. Identification Card, War Department dependant wife identification card, temporary travel document in lieu of passport, and Israel Bureau of Immigration card, as wel...

  18. Nat Neujean. Collection.

    Pictures of the artist Nat Neujean while sculpting ; some of Nat Neujean's early works of art (statues and bronze sculptures); pictures of family members and friends of Nat Neujean, some of whom were members of the armed resistance.

  19. Albert and Robert Gomperts. Collection

    Letter sent by brothers Albert and Robert (Bob) Gompers to their uncle and aunt Jules and Jet Boas in Canada after the brothers had been able to flee from Belgium to Great-Britain during the German invasion. The letter contains information regarding family members left behind in Belgium and the Netherlands during the first weeks of May 1940.

  20. Steinhardt-Safier family. Collection

    The Steinhardt-Safier family collection contains 28 photos showing the prewar Steinhardt and Safier family life : pictures taken on boat rides during vacations, wedding photos taken at a synagogue in Berlin, baby pictures of Harry Henri Steinhardt, family parties and Passover celebrations, and the Safier family at their bakery in Berlin. The collection also contains a post-war letter from the Belgian Ministry of Public Affairs confirming the deportation of the Steinhardt-Safier family and two family trees clarifying the ties between the Steinhardt and Safier families.