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  4. Robert Hesse papers

    Documents related to the career and emigration from Germany of Robert Hesse, including identification documents (German passport and identification card), certificate of discharge from Buchenwald (1938), immigration card from Cuba, typed resume (1940), and photo copies of two family photographs.

  5. Diary written by Saly Mayer regarding the transfer of relief to Jewish refugees after the war, lectures by Saly Mayer, the sale of a home intended for aliya training in Bex, and other matters, 1948

    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)

    Diary written by Saly Mayer regarding the transfer of relief to Jewish refugees after the war, lectures by Saly Mayer, the sale of a home intended for aliya training in Bex, and other matters, 1948 Diary written by Saly Mayer in 1948, including: - Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to Jewish refugees after the war and, in particular, for the support of students and intellectuals; - Documentation regarding Saly Mayer's lecture, 04 August 1948, concerning the financing of the JDC organization's activities, 1938-1948; - Documentation regarding a lecture given by Saly Mayer in Zuric...

  6. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the United States Embassy in Switzerland and with Roswell McClelland regarding the fate of those holding South American passports in the camps in Germany and in Vittel

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the United States Embassy in Switzerland and with Roswell McClelland regarding the fate of those holding South American passports in the camps in Germany and in Vittel Also in the file: - American regulation regarding limitations on the granting of visas to the United States, 01 July 1941; - Request submitted by Dr. Silberschein for United States intervention on behalf of the refugees in Spain and Portugal, 20 June 1941; - Information from the "Washington Post", 26 January 1944, and from Juedische Nachrichten, the press agency of SIG [Un...

  8. M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations Kurt Grossmann was born in Berlin, Germany. He served as the Executive Director of the League for Human Rights from 1926 to 1933. In February 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he founded the Democratic Refugee Relief Committee, an organization dedicated to providing relief to refugees. He also edited the news about Germany for a news service [news agency]. In 1939, he moved to the United States and worked ...

  9. Rabbi Henry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rabbi Henry B., who was born in Fu?rth, Germany, in 1907. He speaks of family life before the war; antisemitism in Furth; his experience on Kristallnacht in Frankfurt am Main; and his 1940 departure for Cuba, from where he later emigrated to the United States. He stresses that antisemitism existed in Germany before Hitler, recalling the increasing repression and the persecution of German Jews before the outbreak of war. He also describes his return to Germany in 1950 to visit his father's grave; his brief stint as the head rabbi in Lima, Peru; and his anger at the Uni...

  10. Documentation regarding Jewish emigration, travel documents and HICEM activities

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

    Documentation regarding Jewish emigration, travel documents and HICEM activities - Documents related to efforts to rescue Jewish inmates in various concentration and transit camps through the use of foreign, especially Latin American, travel documents; - Lists of the 1552 Jews who were entitled to obtain passports and citizenship certificates from the consulates of Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and El Salvador. - Article regarding the activities of HICEM, an acronym of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Jewish Colonization Association (ICA), and a migration organization (Emigdirect), th...

  14. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with Jewish relief organizations in Germany regarding the modalities and guidelines for emigration to Madchukuo]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with Jewish relief organizations in Germany [Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland] regarding the modalities and guidelines for emigration to Manchoukuo. Especially how one is to obtain a permanent residence permit from Mandchurian bureaucracy by having a valid work contract and income in Manchoukuo

  16. [Clarification of DALJEWCIB Harbin to the Relief Society for German & Austrian Jews regarding entry into China and Manchuria]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Clarification of DALJEWCIB Harbin to the Relief Society for German & Austrian Jews concerning the non-availability of travel permits to Dairen[Dalian (Liaoning Sheng, China)],China and current visa guidelines for Jewish refugees

  17. Journal des communautés, convocation, 1954. Journée de l'Enfant juif, circulaire, 1955. Keren Hasefer Ve - Hachinou'h. Fonds de restauration du livre et de l'enseignement : situation de la reconstruction spirituelle juive en France, 1947. Keren Hayessod, Aide à Israël, convocation, 1954. Keren Kayemeth Leisrael, convocation, tracts, 1946, 1952, 1954, 1955. The league of Nations : Report... on questions of jewish Interest, 1925. Magbith des jeunes, circulaire, 1954. Maison israélite de refuge pour l'Enfance, invitation, 1956. Maison de santé israélite de Strasbourg, CR de la commission administrative, 1881. Mifkadat Ken Betar de Paris, invitation. Mizrahi et Hapoe1 Hamizrahi de France, tracts, 1946. Musée d'art juif, Paris, prospectus, exposition, 1949-1961. Oeuvre israélite des séjours à la campagne, circulaire, 1946. Oeuvre des orphelins israélites de la guerre, AG, 1916, 1919. Organisation sioniste de France, invitation, 1945, 1946. Parti républicain national et social, tract, 193... Les Petits filleuls, AG, 1937. Premier congrès international de musique juive, Paris, 1957, programme. Mes Relais juifs, organisation de voyages et de rencontres, affiche. Le Renouveau, Association pour les intérêts agricoles des Israélites, invitation. Semaine d'études juives supérieures, 1957, programme. Séminaire israélite de France, séance solennelle de rentrée (hommage au grand rabbin Julien Weill), 1949, invitations... 1947, 1955, 1956. Société de bienfaisance et d'inhumation des Israélites de Marseille, CR, 1876. Société La Bienfaisante, AG, 1906.

    1. Fonds de la commission française des archives juives
    2. 26AS/22-26AS/27

  19. Vincent La Vista report on illegal immigration in and through Italy

    Consists of a copy of a declassified memorandum written on 15 May 1947 by Vincent La Vista to Herbert J. Cummings. The memorandum describes the illegal immigration of Jews, Hungarians, displaced persons in general, and other groups into and through Italy after World War II. La Vista also reports on the alleged illegal activities of institutions and groups including the Vatican, the International Red Cross, and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in connection with illegal immigration.

  20. Presentation by Ruth Bild Adler