Agudat Yisrael collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired this collection in June 2011.
Scope and Content
The Agudat Yisrael collection consists of correspondence, telegrams, and names lists related to rescue attempts by the World Agudat Yisrael organization and various Swiss Jewish organizations to save the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia between 1939-1944. Includes letters by Dr. Ya'akov Griffel and Ludwig Kastner, who worked with Turkish transit visas, a request for transit visas to Palestine for a list of rabbis, and a names list (with addresses) titled "from Theresienstadt to Slovakia until the end of June1944."
System of Arrangement
The Agudat Yisrael collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Kastner, Ludwig.
- Griffel, Ya'akov.
Corporate Bodies
- Agudat Israel
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Czechoslovakia.
- Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary.
- Switzerland.
- Jews rescue (1939-1945)
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Telegrams.