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  2. Atlit detainee camp photographs

    1. Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

    Contains five photographs related to the Atlit detainee camp, which was established south of Haifa by British authorities to hold Jewish refugees attempting to enter Palesting.

  3. Jewish Extremists in Haifa; deported to Cyprus

    LS Haifa harbor. British soldiers guard court building. Extremists accused of blowing up railroad brought to trial; out of truck, handcuffed, men and women. Illegal immigrants arrive in Haifa on the "Henrietta Szold" ship. Ship into dock. Women and children helped off boat. Barbed wire enclosure. Man kisses ground, put on ship to Cyprus.

  5. Survey of the condition of Jewish refugee children in Switzerland taken from a report issued by the Organization for the Advancement of Jewish Art in Switzerland, May 1945

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Survey of the condition of Jewish refugee children in Switzerland taken from a report issued by the Organization for the Advancement of Jewish Art in Switzerland, May 1945

  6. Report published by the Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel regarding its activities during the war, December 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Report published by the Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel regarding its activities during the war, December 1946

  7. Reports written by various organizations regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland before the war

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Reports written by various organizations regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland before the war - Report regarding help given by the Polish embassy in the Soviet Union to refugees from Poland during the war; - Survey of combat in the Warsaw Ghetto written by Shalom Grik.

  8. World Jewish Congress and American Jewish Congress letters, protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Europe and possibilities for relief, 1942-1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    World Jewish Congress and American Jewish Congress letters, protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Europe and possibilities for relief, 1942-1943

  9. Protocols and reports regarding the persecution and murder of the Jews in Slovakia and Hungary that reached the World Jewish Congress, 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Protocols and reports regarding the persecution and murder of the Jews in Slovakia and Hungary that reached the World Jewish Congress, 1944

  10. Correspondence regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board, 1943-1944

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Correspondence regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board, 1943-1944 Correspondence, memos and reports regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board, 1944; Friedman's correspondence with John Pehle, the President of the War Refugees Committee.

  11. American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs reports, 1940-1944

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs reports, 1940-1944 The fate of European Jewry; the "Struma" Affair; granting of visas to refugees; rescue in exchange for merchandise; statements in anticipation of the American Jewish Conference held in 1943.

  12. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    New Statesman and Nation. The file includes reports and correspondence concerning economic and labour statistics in Palestine, the continuing immigration of Jewish refugees, continuing violence in Palestine including the Tiberias Massacre, and the proceedings of the Palestine Partition Commission. There is also an account of the activities of Jewish activists and organisations in the United States, interviews with several statesmen about Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state, and several clippings from the

  13. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    This file contains correspondence concerning pogroms in Poland and the liquidation of concentration camps, negotiations for the post-war borders of Russia and Poland, and the transportation of Jewish refugees to Palestine. The file also contains a report on the British search of the Ramat HaKovesh kibbutz, an eyewitness account of public opinion in Germany, and debates about whether newspapers should publish stories about the successful escapes of prisoners of war at the risk of compromising similar escape attempts.

  14. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    This file contains correspondence relating to the Second World War, including the mobilisation of Finnish and Russian forces, German propaganda, British naval intelligence, economic and natural resources in Germany, relations with neutral countries, especially Romania and Scandinavian countries, and the treatment of Jewish refugees by British forces in Palestine. The file includes correspondence from journalists including Marcel Fodor, correspondent in Brussels.

  15. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Manchester Guardian The file primarily contains correspondence and Crozier's notes relating to domestic affairs, including reports of air raid casualties, circulation of the , food shortages, and relations with Ireland and Irish neutrality. Foreign correspondence concerns reports from French soldiers and other informants in Syria, diplomatic relations with the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, and the Vichy government, Spain's annexation of Tangiers, and Jewish refugees turned away in Palestine.

  16. Miscellaneous

    1. Raphael Lemkin Papers

    Contains biographical material, material on the Nuremberg trials, the Nobel Peace Prize, copies of Military Government in Europe, a photocopy of portions of Axis Rule in Occupied Europe and miscellaneous memoranda and printed material dealing with Nazi concentration camps, refugees, the Cold War, and religious magazines.

  17. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Eretz Israel office in Prague (M. Orenstein) regarding help to friends in Poland

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Eretz Israel office in Prague (M. Orenstein ) regarding help to friends in Poland Also in the file: - Telegram from M. Yaari ordering the transfer of funds to M. Orenstein, 1940.

  20. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. Girl refugees with their bundles on arrival at Harwich.