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Country: Israel

  1. The Germans in Warsaw - September-October 1939 -Bulletin No. 2

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the German siege and occupation of Warsaw. The bulletin consists of fragments of various testimonies of Jews from Warsaw collected by the committee, together with some committee remarks in between quotations. It states that the German bombardment targeted Jewish quarters of Warsaw specifically, and describes the mass of casualties from bombs and fires in the city. The bulletin describes the dispersal of the self-governing Jewish community and the es...

  2. Yugoslavia Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period

    In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia (according to the April 1941 boundaries) during the 20th century, and concerning various topics from the Holocaust period. Some of the documentation was photocopied from material in various archives in Yugoslavia and in other countries, including Israel, and some of the documentation was submitted to Yad Vashem by private individuals. Among the sources for the documentation are the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, the Association of Yugoslav Immigrants in Israel, Hakeren Hakayemet Le-israel...

  3. The Collection of Nathan Schwalb, the representative of the World Center of the Hechalutz movement in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II

    Schwalb spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross, mainly to Poland, and transferring funds via messengers whom he drafted for this purpose. The Collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and more.

  4. The Recha Freier Archive: Founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    The collection contains Recha Freier's personal files, including correspondence with various international organizations, among them the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of the United States, which directed its main efforts to the project to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.

  5. Documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives: Activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Europe during World War II

    The collection contains mainly documentation regarding the activities of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement during the war in various countries in Europe. The Collection was gathered and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the movement. The documentation from the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives was originally arranged and organized in Record Groups: 1. The Vilna Ghetto Record Group; 2. The Warsaw Record Group; 3. The Bialystok Record Group; 4. The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in cities and ghettos in Poland during the war; 5. The Movement in Hungary, Slovakia, parachutists; 6. The PCh"Ch Archive in Ge...

  6. [Public manifastation of gratitude to the Belgium nation]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several information about a public manifastation to show respect to the Belgium nation. There was a huge festivity to thank the Belgium nation for there generosity and the help regarding the Jewish population. Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium honored this ceremony, alongside with Cardinal Jozef-Ernest van Roey, Family members of the Van Cauweleart and Chaim Perelman. Also representatives of the Belgium Government were invited by the Jewish Relief organisations. Further important representatives from several nations and from all over the wold showed their respec...

  7. The Jews of Switzerland by Dr. Willy Guggenheim

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The file contains an essay written by Dr. Willy Guggenheim, published by the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, entitled as 'The Jews of Switzerland'. It deals with the history of Jews in Switzerland, in detail the history before the World War I, between the two Wars, during World War II and after the War is described. Switzerland was for example the last country of all Western Europe which grant Jews full civic rights (1866) and only under strong foreign pressure. The fight for emancipation started from the canton of Aargau. From there the Jews fanned out to other places in Switzerlan...

  8. The Position of the Jews in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (October)

    1. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The file contains a report of 1937 about the position of Jews in Yugoslavia written in German. The Jewish Central information Office published every month a new report, regarding the situation of Jews in Germany or Europe. In 1928 Alfred Wiener was instrumental in creating the Büro Wilhelmstrasse of the CV, which documented Nazi activities and issued anti-Nazi materials until 1933 when Hitler came to power. Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr. David Cohen of Amsterdam University, founded the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO). This report is devided into...

  9. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II Biographies of Joel Jenő Brand and his wife Hansi (Hartmann) Brand Joel Brand was born in Naszód, Transylvania in 1906. In 1934, after a stay in Germany, he settled in Budapest, Hungary, where he joined the Poalei Zion Party. In 1935 he married Hansi Hartmann and together they set up a glove factory. In 1942 Joel and Hansi were among the founders of the Relief and Rescue Committee, the Budapest-based underground organization, which worked on behalf of Jewish refugees in Hu...

  10. P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

    P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer Biography of Dr. Israel Rezső Rudolf Kasztner: Israel Kasztner was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania in 1906. Between World War I and World War II, he worked as a journalist and an attorney at law, and, at the same time, he was an activist in the Zionist Labor Movement in Cluj. After the annexation of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940, Kasztner moved to Budapest and continued his Zionist Movement activities. He was one of the f...

  11. P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944

    P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944 Biography of Ottó Komoly: Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with relief activities and attempts to smug...

  12. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Gev

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ein Gev Testimonies/ interviews: 1. Willi Bechner; 2. Rivka Grinberger; 3. Shragai Degani; 4. Michael Werner; 5. Baruch Zeira; 6. Zvi Mor; 7. Mordechai Neustadt (testimony, from an unknown source); 8. Rachel Sobol; Booklet: 1. Uri Yanai, "Excerpts of memoirs", Kibbutz Ein Gev, 1990; 2. "Saltzseleufer leben zeit shrift", Aroibegegebn durchen kultur-amt beim Yiddishen Komitet in Bad Salzuflen-Fulder [?] Kriz, Amerikaner Zone ("Journal of my li...

  13. Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer

    in the Collection there are 4,500 pages of original documentation, mostly regarding the following subjects: A. The history of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust;B. Efforts of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Hungary in whose framework Dr. Israel Kasztner was active, 1942-1944; C. The role of the Jewish institutions that were active in the Free World countries working to rescue Jews;D. Documentation regarding the Nuremberg Trial at which Dr. Kasztner testified on behalf of Kurt Becher; E. Documentation regarding the Kasztner Affair in Israel, 1952-1958;F. Documentation regarding the ...

  14. Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    In the Collection there are 97 files containing original documentation mainly regarding the following subjects: A. The history of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust;B. Efforts of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Hungary throguh which Hansi and Joel Brand conducted their activities, 1942-1944; G."Joel Brand: Die Geschichte eines Geschäfts"(Joel Brand, the Story of a Businessman), a radio play written by Heinar Kipphardt based on Joel Brand's life. C. The roles of various Jewish institutions which were active in the Free World whose goal it was to rescue the Jews of Hungary;D. Documen...

  15. Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944

    Most of the collection is original and can be divided into two parts: A) The first part is Komoly's documentation from the period before World War II to the end of the war (Files 1-48). - Lectures and research papers prepared by Komoly in his professional area as an engineer and his activities as a Jewish Zionist leader;- Correspondence with Jewish organizations from Hungary and other countries, public figures and the Hungarian authorities regarding the rescue of the Jews of Hungary; - Eleven volumes of the work appointment book conducted by Komoly in Budapest, 1934-1944;- Newspaper clippin...

  16. M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk

    M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September 1996, the Archive changed its definition again, and it became the Local State Archive of Pinsk. As of 30 June 2001 and following, the Archive has been known as the "Scientific-Methodological Institution ...

  17. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 5083562
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1939-1944
    • Administrative documentation Application Balance sheet Correspondence Financial accounts List of Jews List of names Lists Report Reports Statistical data Statistical report Survey report

    Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administra...

  18. Official documentation regarding the activities of the Swedish government, the Swedish Red Cross and Raoul Wallenberg, on behalf of the rescue of Hungarian Jews; documentation dated, 1944-1947

    1. P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987

    Official documentation regarding the activities of the Swedish government, the Swedish Red Cross and Raoul Wallenberg, on behalf of the rescue of Hungarian Jews; documentation dated, 1944-1947 Volume One: - Documentation of anti-Semitic regulations, legislation and bans published starting, 20 March 1944, including the ban on the employment of Jews, the possession of property by Jews, and their deportation; - Details regarding the numbers of deported people according to areas and including a total of approximately 35,000 people, 10 May-10 June 1944; - Testimony [collective] of two Jews who e...

  19. Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

    In the documentation: The ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the organization in Krakow and the branches throughout the Generalgouvernement, and correspondence with the German governmental authorities, the Judenrats, and various Jewish relief organizations, such as CENTOS, ORT, TOZ and welfare organizations outside of Poland, mainly the JDC. In the correspondence there are requests for social welfare in various areas, itemization of aid and welfare activities including assistance to those in need and Jewish refugees, the establishment and maintenance of ...

  20. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

    O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat Dr. Jacob Robinson was born in Seirijai, a village in the Alytus district in southeastern Lithuania on 28 November 1889, and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1910 he completed his studies at the Suwalki high school and in the summer of 1914, he completed his studies for the title of Doctorate in Law (LL.D.) at the University of Warsaw. In May 1923 he was elected to the Sejm (Lithuanian Parliament), where he served as head of the Jewish faction and a leader of the minorities bloc. During the years 1925-1931, Robinson served ...