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Country: Israel

  1. Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, December 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות 25/56

    Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, December 1943 Poland: Thousands of Jews remain in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto; German legislation regarding Polish citizens and German citizens; testimony regarding murder of Jews in Kiev; mass graves of Jews from Riga. Germany: Problems in providing food; air-raids on German cities; Goebbels' speech. Rome: Levying of payment of a forced contribution in gold on the Jews of Rome. Slovakia: Possibilities for implementation of insurance certificates by Jews....

  2. Testimony from an anonymous witness regarding the deportation of Jews from Grodno and its surrounding area

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Testimony from an anonymous witness regarding the deportation of Jews from Grodno and its surrounding area Deportation of the Jews of Sokolki, 24-25 April [?] 1943; forced labor in industry in the Bialystok Ghetto by order of the German Army; arrival of refugees from deportation trains to the Bialystok Ghetto; false promises made by members of the Grodno Judenrat regarding the deportation of the ghetto Jews to forced labor camps; execution of Jews during "Aktions"; fate of the Jews of Krinki after the "Aktion", November 1942; deportation of the Jews of Jasinowka; opposition of the Jews of M...

  3. Two reports by the War Refugee Board regarding the negotiations held between Saly Mayer and SS representatives, and a book titled "Rescue to Switzerland: The Musy and Saly Mayer Affairs", including a collection of War Refugee board documents regarding the

    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)

    Two reports by the War Refugee Board regarding the negotiations held between Saly Mayer and SS representatives, and a book titled "Rescue to Switzerland: The Musy and Saly Mayer Affairs", including a collection of War Refugee board documents regarding the negotiations with SS representatives concerning the fate of the Jews in Hungary; documents dated, 1944-1982 - Final report by the director of the War Refugee Board in Washington, 15 September 1945, including a description of the negotiations held between Saly Mayer and SS representatives, and instructions issued by US President F. D. Roose...

  4. Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to Jews in Austria, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization regarding the financing of the Red Cross organization's activities in Vienna, a report by Israel Kasztner regardi

    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 transfer of relief to Jews in Austria, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization regarding the financing of the Red Cross organization's activities in Vienna, a report by Israel Kasztner regarding [the transfer of] food goods to Jews in Austria, a report by the Jewish Agency regarding the fate of the Jews in Austria, and other matters, 1944-1945 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization in Vienna, regarding the financing of the Red Cross organization's relief activities on behalf of the Jewish survivors in...

  5. Documentation regarding monetary claims related to monies borrowed by the JDC organization in France in exchange for payment of the debt in dollars after the war, and regarding the transfer of monies by the JDC on behalf of the Jews in France, 1941-1945

    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 monetary claims related to monies borrowed by the JDC organization in France in exchange for payment of the debt in dollars after the war, and regarding the transfer of monies by the JDC on behalf of the Jews in France, 1941-1945 - Monetary claims related to monies borrowed by the JDC organization in France, in exchange for payment of the debt in dollars after the war; - Lists of lenders; - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and the US Legation in Bern, regarding the transfer of monies from the United States to France; - Listing of telephone discussions between Saly M...

  6. Documentation regarding the situation of the Jews who were deported to Transnistria, and the relief activities by the JDC and Red Cross organizations on behalf of the Jews, 1942-1943

    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 situation of the Jews who were deported to Transnistria, and the relief activities by the JDC and Red Cross organizations on behalf of the Jews, 1942-1943 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Wilhelm Fischer, a Zionist leader in Bucharest and one of the JDC representatives in Romania; - Letters written by Wilhelm Fischer to Nathan Schwalb, the Hechalutz movement's representative in Geneva, regarding relief to the persecuted Jews in Transnistria; - Documentation regarding the sending of medicine and medical goods to Transnistria by the Red Cross organization; -...

  7. Documentation regarding the financing of the JDC organization's relief activities to Jews in Romania and private claims related to the relief activities in Romania, 1943-1947

    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 financing of the JDC organization's relief activities to Jews in Romania and private claims related to the relief activities in Romania, 1943-1947 Documentation regarding the financing of the JDC organization's relief activities to the Jews in Romania, 1943-1946: - Correspondence between Wilhelm Fischer and Nathan Schwalb, the Hechalutz organization representative in Switzerland, regarding the relief activities to the Jews in Romania, 1943; - Correspondence between Saly Mayer, the JDC representative in Switzerland, and the Red Cross organization, regarding the re...

  8. Testimony of Rachel Dawidow, born in Uzventis, Lithuania, 1914, regarding her experiences in Telsiai, the Rheine farm, camps, the Siaulai Ghetto and hearsay testimony of the Jews in Uzventis

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Testimony of Rachel Dawidow, born in Uzventis, Lithuania, 1914, regarding her experiences in Telsiai, the Rheine farm, camps, the Siaulai Ghetto and hearsay testimony of the Jews in Uzventis Life before the war; move with the family to Telsiai, 1935. Deportation with the Jews to the camp on the Rheine farm; camp life; transfer to another camp; camp life including a meeting with women from Uzventis; receives information about the Jews in Uzventis; escape to the Siauliai Ghetto; ghetto life including maintains contact with a non-Jewish physician from Uzventis; help from the physician to find ...

  9. Testimony of Mosze Gilinski, born in Lyntupy, Lithuania, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Lyntupy Ghetto, the Swieciany Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Testimony of Mosze Gilinski, born in Lyntupy, Lithuania, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Lyntupy Ghetto, the Swieciany Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest Life before the war in Lyntupy. German occupation; transfer of the local administration by the Poles; looting of Jewish owned property; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; deportation to forced labor; escape of refugees from Swieciany and the surrounding area; knowledge of the murder of Jews in a poligon, 08-09 October 1941; establishment of a ghetto; ghetto life including Judenrat activities; annexation of t...

  10. Political Department.

    In this fonds we find 6 relevant files, mostly containing correspondence, reports and other documents. We note: reports on the situation of (exiled) Jews in Belgium (file S25/7853; years 1940-1945), reports on i.a. Belgian industry and trade during the war (S25/10759; 1941-1944) as well as files concerning: the situation in Belgium during the Second World War (S25/9321; 1939-1944), trade relations with Belgium (S25/7396; 1947), Zionist activity in Belgium (S25/1996; 1926-1947) and the local Palestine Office (S25/603/4; 1925).

  11. Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943

    Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943 In the collection of the Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands there is much information regarding the economic development in the Netherlands before and during the Nazi occupation, including the labor market in the Netherlands during the 1930s, the draft of reserve forces among Dutch merchants in 1940, and the removal of Jews from the Dutch economy, for instance Jewish clerks and Jewish businesses such as Bijenkorf, Hollandia Kattenburg & Co, Zwanenburg, Orga...

  12. Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944

    Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944 Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, was responsible for the administration of matters related to the regions, municipalities, and needy persons, Armwezen. The local Police, firefighters and air defense forces were subordinate to it and were transferred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice during the Nazi occupation period. A general draft of the Dutch Army was declared in June 1939. Binnenlands B...

  13. M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

    M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing. After the organization (CLI administration) disbanded in May 1949, the documentation was stored in the cellars of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York; in 1957 the documentation was transferred to Yad Vashem. In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sectio...

  14. Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943

    Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943 The role of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden was the determination of damages and payment of compensation to German citizens who suffered from war damages in the Netherlands; the Hilfsausschuß was based on VO 21/41; Germans outside of the Netherlands were also entitled to compensation, on condition that the damage to property was caused in the Netherlands; most of the claims related to the property of Jewish refugees from Germany who had stored their household contents in storage rooms of...

  15. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  16. Menschenfracht nach Palästina

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is an unpublished account by Werner Bukofzer about his illegal immigration to Palestine from Germany via the Danube and then on board of the "Hilda" to Haifa. He describes the hardships on board of the ship during an especially harsh winter 39/40, the uncertainty, and the dangers through onboard fire, storms and imminent shipwrecking. After days in the port of Haifa the passengers are taken prisoners by the British and interned in the Atlit camp. What follows is the monotony of prison life. Individual characters and events are described through anecdotes. After Purim 1940 a hungers...

  17. [Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Zambrow (occupied by the Germans, burned, Ryki (occupied by the Germans, bombing caused severe damage), Międzyrzec Podlaski (occupied by the Germans, then by the Soviets, then by Germans again, when the Red Army left all young people left with it, several streets burned entirely), Skierniewice (occupied by the Germans, totally burned by bombing), Belchatow (occupied by the Germans, about 8000 Jews fled on the first day, thousands more later, Jewish shops looted, books conf...

  18. Lt. Alexandr Alexandrovich Bystrow

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two reports written by Paul Anderson about the officer of the 61 Mechanised Rifle Regt of the Tenth Devision (Fourth Mechanised Army of the Soviet Forces, stationed in the Soviet Zone of Germany) Lt. Alexandr Alexandrovich Bystrow. On the 27th of August 1950 he crosses the zonal border and surendered to British military authorities as a political refugee. In the report Anderson explains very briefly the life story of Bystrow and his reasons for his desertion from the Soviet Army Forces. As Anderson argues the motives have little to do with political or ideological reasons,...

  19. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  20. [Hell or Paradise]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports written by Paul Anderson, regading the reality of Soviet life. He gives informations about Soviet collective farms, the trade Unions and about Red Army refugees who recently escaped to the West from the Soviet zone of Germany. As Anderson argues communities in the country side of Russia had a hard and not easy life, which makes it even more surprising why they were still voting for the communist party. This is based ultimately on illudions and ideals that are false even if they are genuinely and sincerely belived in. To every Soviet citizen the first experi...