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  1. Correspondence file organized alphabetically (A-P)

    1. P.3 -Isaac Weissman Archive: Documentation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    Correspondence file organized alphabetically (A-P) Also in the file: - Correspondence with Pierre Mendès France, 1943-1960; - Copies of letters from P. Lichtenstein, Jewish Agency representative in Portugal and Spain, regarding the relations among the Jewish organizations there, 1943; - List of rabbis who received visas to Mauritius (the list is attached to correspondence with the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council in London).

  2. Doctoral thesis (manuscript) by Chaim Avni entitled "Rescue of Jews via Spain and Portugal"

    1. P.3 -Isaac Weissman Archive: Documentation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

    Doctoral thesis (manuscript) by Chaim Avni entitled "Rescue of Jews via Spain and Portugal" The thesis was written as part of a doctoral program at the Hebrew University.

  3. Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

  4. Child Care Division

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Box D71. Folder 1. Rescue, 1942-1944 May Box D71. Folder 2. Rescue, 1944 June-1946 February Box D71. Folder 3. Gutman, William, report on destitute children, 1945 May Box D71. Folder 4. Rescue of children in France, reports by Riegner, Gerhart M., and list of children, 1945 Box D71. Folder 5. Jewish children in Christian homes, Poland, Besserman case, 1945-1950 Box D71. Folder 6. Jewish children in non-Jewish homes, 1945-1953 Box D71. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1945-1946 Box D71. Folder 8. Minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, lists, 1945-1948 Box D71. Folder 9. Correspondence and minut...

  5. International Alphabetical Files DL Correspondence and Clippings

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Consists of alphabetically arranged files on countries and regions. These materials were received by the American Jewish Archives from the WJC in 1987, several years after receipt of the main collection. Box H374. Folder 12. Libya, 1949-1952, 1955-1957, 1959 Box H374. Folder 13. Libya, 1961-1969 Box H375. Folder 1. Libya, 1970-1971 Box H375. Folder 2. Libya, 1972-1973, 1976 Box H375. Folder 3. Luxembourg, 1956-1979 Box H375. Folder 4. Malta, 1959-1979 Box H375. Folder 5. Mexico, 1958-1959 Box H375. Folder 6. Mexico, 1960-1981 Box H375. Folder 7. Monaco, 1962-1978 Box H375. Folder 8. Morocco...

  6. P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    P.21 - Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967 Ilya Ehrenburg was born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 1891. He was exiled to France in 1908 after being arrested for his activities against the Czarist regime. In Paris, he gradually dissociated himself from the Bolsheviks, associating himself with modern artists, publishing his poems and working at translation. After the Socialist revolution in 1917, he returned to his native country. From 1923 Ehrenburg worked as a journalist for the "Izvestia" newspaper. The Soviet authorities u...

  7. Leo Cohn, born in Luebeck, Germany, 1913: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Leo Cohn, born in Luebeck, Germany, 1913: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Underground activities as part of EIF (French Jewish Scouts); life in Toulouse; plans the transfer of a group of Jewish men to Eretz Israel via Spain; detention at the Saint-Cyprien railroad station, 17 May 1944; life in prison in Saint-Cyprien; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz with a group of children under his protection on Transport 77, 30 July 1944; perishes during a death march. In the file: - Last letter written by Leo Cohn to Robert Gamzon, 27 Ju...

  8. Regine Fixman Knout, born in Bogliasco, Italy, 1906, known as Ariane Sara Knout; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Regine Fixman Knout, born in Bogliasco, Italy, 1906, known as Ariane Sara Knout; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities with her husband, David Fixman Knout, in establishing the underground AJ (Jewish Army); smuggling children into Switzerland and Spain; murder by a French militiaman in Toulouse, 22 July 1944.

  9. Robert Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1912, known as Casoar; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Robert Donoff, born in Paris, France, 1912, known as Casoar; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in the EIF (French Jewish Scouts) and the La Sixieme (the Sixth) underground; activities as director of the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) in Chambery; forged documents and smuggling children into Spain; arrest and deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 02 February 1944. In the file: - Photographs from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive: 7646/46-7646/47.

  10. Garda de Fier

    • Iron Guard

    Founded in 1927

    The Garda de Fier was a fascist and anti-Semitic movement in Romania, whose members were known as ‘Legionnaires’. Originally established in 1927 under the name ‘legion of the Archangel Michael’ and organized into paramilitary units, the Garda de Fier soon became a mass political movement. It was officially dissolved in 1933, but continued to function, even receiving the third largest number of votes in Romania’s 1937 election. During the mid-1930s the Garda de Fier also established ties with the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1938, Romania’s King Carol II again outlawed the Garda de Fier. Nonet...

  11. Finkel Norbert, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

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

    Finkel Norbert, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in France. Activities as part of the AJ (Jewish Army); death while trying to illegally cross the border into Spain, April 1944.

  12. Roger Picard, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Roger Picard, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1923; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Thionville until 1939. Move to Paris with his family; joins EIF (French Jewish Scouts), 1942; activities at the Beaulieu sur Dordogne children's home; decision to join a group escaping to Spain; arrest with Rabbi Samy Stourdze at the Bedous railroad station; arrest carried out by the French police; transfer to the prison in Orthez with Rabbi Stourdze; deportation to the Merignac camp; transfer to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 18 July 1944. In the ...

  13. Isaie Charles Elbogen, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Isaie Charles Elbogen, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in EIF (French Jewish Scouts); attendance at a first aid course during the war; participation in the rescue of the injured and removal of rubble during air-raids on the cities of France; joins the French Jewish underground; escape to Spain, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944; outbreak of the War of Independence; enlists in the religious regiment of the First Battalion of the Palmach; participation in the battle for Latrun and his death in b...

  14. Marcel Langer, born in Szuczyn, Poland, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Marcel Langer, born in Szuczyn, Poland, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Detention in a British prison in Eretz Israel; move to France; move from Paris to Toulouse, 1931; life in Toulouse including integration into the Polish-Jewish community; joins MOI (Immigrant Work Force), the Communist organization; combat in the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Deportation to the Argeles Sur Mer camp; transfer to Gurs; escape from the camp; escape to Toulouse; joins the Communist underground within the framework of MOI; arrested while carrying a suitc...

  15. Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities in the Dutch underground, from 1944; smuggles inmates out of Westerbork; smuggles Jews and persecuted non-Jews into Belgium, France and Spain; arrested 19 July 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Buchenwald, 17 August 1944; liberation by the Allies. Return to the Netherlands, May 1945. In the file: - Summary of his activities.

  16. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more There are three volumes in the file: Volume I Letter from Rudolf Hess to Julius Streicher; Adolf Hitler's political will. Volume II Lists of articles and bibliography regarding emigration of the Jews; article regarding Chaim Weizmann; clippings from the Jewish newspapers C.V. Zeitung and Allgemeine Zeitung Des Judentum, 1938. Volume III Unsorted material from the London Record Office.

  17. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history There are four volumes in the file: Volume I Refugees and the rescue of Jews in neutral countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and Spain during the Holocaust period. Volume II Articles, index cards, lists, bibliography and correspondence regarding the Jewish youth movements and the Bund during the Holocaust period. Volume III Lectures, articles and lis...

  18. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Documents, articles, newspaper clippings and notes regarding the deportation of Jews from various countries to concentration and extermination camps, forced labor; the Jews of Italy and Hungary including Joel Brand's mission;

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Documents, articles, newspaper clippings and notes regarding the deportation of Jews from various countries to concentration and extermination camps, forced labor; the Jews of Italy and Hungary including Joel Brand's mission; the Theresienstadt Ghetto; the Jewish Agency; rescue of Jews and other topics The file is divided into 10 volumes: Volume I Documents, articles, excerpts from research books, notes regarding deportations and transports to extermination camps, mainly Auschwitz; regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto; the Jews of Greece; forced labor and Righteo...

  19. Westerweel Groep

    • Westerweel Group

    The Westerweel group provided protection to Jewish children and young adults at the assorted hakhsharah institutions. Joop Westerweel organized underground training for the children of the Youth Aliyah in the Loosdrechtse Rade. There he met Joachim Simons, who warned him about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. The resistance group associated with the Westerweels arranged places to hide for a great many young adults. Small groups fled to Spain and Switzerland via Belgium and France. At least 60 young adults reached Spain.

  20. Erzählte Geschichte

    • Oral Interviews with Witnesses

    The collection includes life story interviews with approx. 1050 people. The Interviewees were born between 1890 and 1944 and participated in the resistance and/or were subjected to persecution in the period from 1934 to 1945. They report on the history of the 20th century from their perspective. The topics of the interviews include: First Austrian Republic, Anti-Semitism, Austro-Fascism, Resistance between 1934 and 1938, Resistance between 1938 and 1945, Spanish Civil War, “Anschluss” of Austria to Nazi Germany, Shoah, Disfranchisement of Jews, Deportation, Exile, The persecution of Carinth...