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  1. Correspondence with the American government and with Jewish and non-Jewish organizations regarding refugees, the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust, rescue efforts and the reaction of American Jewry, 1939-1945

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Correspondence with the American government and with Jewish and non-Jewish organizations regarding refugees, the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust, rescue efforts and the reaction of American Jewry, 1939-1945

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Correspondence regarding refugees, 1940-1945

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Correspondence regarding refugees, 1940-1945

  5. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  6. American State Department correspondence regarding refugees and the rescue of Jews, 1942-1944

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    American State Department correspondence regarding refugees and the rescue of Jews, 1942-1944

  7. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  8. Documentation regarding Jewish emigration, travel documents and HICEM activities

    1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    Documentation regarding Jewish emigration, travel documents and HICEM activities - Documents related to efforts to rescue Jewish inmates in various concentration and transit camps through the use of foreign, especially Latin American, travel documents; - Lists of the 1552 Jews who were entitled to obtain passports and citizenship certificates from the consulates of Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and El Salvador. - Article regarding the activities of HICEM, an acronym of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Jewish Colonization Association (ICA), and a migration organization (Emigdirect), th...

  9. Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1940-1945

    1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1940-1945 - Correspondence with Zionist movements, rescue organizations, embassies, international Jewish organizations, and more; -Letters, reports, protocols and messages mainly regarding the rescue of the persecuted Jews in German occupied Europe; some letters are written in encrypted language and contain hidden messages; - Correspondence including reports regarding the Jewish Order Police in the Warsaw Ghetto signed by S. Silberstein, Henryk Nadel and H. Auerswald (translated into Hebrew); - Copy of a protocol signed by B. Zabludowski...

  10. Documentation of the United States State Department regarding the fate of the Jews, in light of the antisemitic policies of Germany, 1933-1942

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

    Documentation of the United States State Department regarding the fate of the Jews, in light of the antisemitic policies of Germany, 1933-1942 Economic boycott; displays of antisemitism within German society; attitude of countries toward Germany, against the background of the anti-Jewish measures; emigration problems of Jews; attitude toward refugees; attitude toward British Mandatory Palestine [Eretz Israel]; persecution of Jews in Italy; displays of antisemitism in Poland; emigration of Jews; Anschluss; forced emigration of the Jews of Austria; Évian Conference; Intergovernmental Commissi...

  11. Documentation regarding the League of Nations, dated, 1933-1939, from the book titled, "A History of the League of Nations", written by F. P. Walters in 1952

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

    Documentation regarding the League of Nations, dated, 1933-1939, from the book titled, "A History of the League of Nations", written by F. P. Walters in 1952 Surveys regarding the League of Nations and the problem of the Jewish refugees, 1933-1939; excerpts from publications by the League of Nations regarding Eretz Israel, the League of Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Evian Conference, 1933-1939.

  12. Documentation of anti-Nazi emigree organizations from Germany and Austria that were active in Paris, 1936-1940

    Documentation of anti-Nazi emigree organizations from Germany and Austria that were active in Paris, 1936-1940 This Record Group was set up in the Osoby Archive in Moscow and includes files of a number of German emigee organizations that were active in Paris. - Files of emigee organizations (Frames 1004-1151) including the Fédération des Emigrés provenant d'Autriche and the Ligue Autrichienne (in German: Oesterreichischen Liga) containing correspondence, fliers, administrative material and reports regarding the Austrian refugees in France, 1938-1940. One of the files (Frames 1026-1114) incl...

  13. Zahraniční tiskový archiv, New York

    • Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066
    • Národní archiv
    • 1066
    • English
    • 1939-1946
    • Textual material 588,62 linear meters

    The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

  14. Ministerstvo vnitra I., Praha

    • Ministry of Interior I., Prague
    • NAD 1075
    • Národní archiv
    • 1075
    • English
    • 1918-1948
    • The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.

    Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

  20. Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece

    Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece Included in the collection are community registration documents; regulations of the Jewish community of Athens; regulations of the community's Rabbinical Court, minutes of Rabbinical Court sessions, Rabbinical Court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces filed at the Rabbinical Court, and related documents; financial documentation of the Jewish community of Athens, as well as documentation regarding religious education at Jewish community schools and the teaching of Judaism at Jewish secular schools; Also included in the col...