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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the World Jewish Congress (WJC) branch in London (Dr. Silverman, A. L. Easterman, N. Barou) regarding arranging of relief for the Jews of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia by the Governments-in-Exile in En

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the World Jewish Congress (WJC) branch in London (Dr. Silverman, A. L. Easterman, N. Barou) regarding arranging of relief for the Jews of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia by the Governments-in-Exile in England and relief to Jewish refugees in Shanghai Also in the file: - Letter from Berl Locker, along with the copy of a letter to Anshel Reis, regarding the Eretz Israel legation of Polish Jews in London and activities of Dr. Ignatz Schwartzbart, 09 January 1941; - Report Number 14 submitted by Dr. Ignatz Schwartzbart regarding survivors in P...

  2. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Lisbon Correspondence with Yitzhak Weisman, Relico representative, and the World Jewish congress (WJC) in Lisbon regarding the sending of food parcels to Poland and to survivors of the ship, "Pentcho", in Rhodes and relief to Jewish refugees in Portugal. Also in the file: - Copies of Weisman's letters to the diplomatic legation in Lisbon, to the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the WJC regarding the release of Jewish refugees who arrived in Portugal ille...

  3. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency i

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Exchange of letters with Yitzhak Weisman in Lisbon regarding diplomatic assistance to Jewish refugees in Portugal and Spain and regarding organizing the work done by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the Jewish Agency in Lisbon Also in the file: - Copies of letters to WJC members in New York and London; - Copies of letters to Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Aryeh Tartakower regarding the situation of refugees in Spain, 08 July 1943, and in Portugal, 16 October 1943 and 05 January 1944; - Copy of a letter to Dr. A. L. Kubowitzky regarding refugees in Italy, 18 ...

  4. Protocols and reports of the Jewish communities in the British Occupied Zone in Germany, regarding the condition of the refugees in the Jewish communities in the British Occupied Zone in Germany, 1946-1951

    1. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

    Protocols and reports of the Jewish communities in the British Occupied Zone in Germany, regarding the condition of the refugees in the Jewish communities in the British Occupied Zone in Germany, 1946-1951 The protocols and reports are from meetings of the community department of the Central Jewish Committee (CJC), the Central Council of the Jews in Germany and other organizations.

  5. Correspondence with Jewish Agency personnel in Jerusalem: Eliyahu Dobkin, Yitzhak Greenboim, and Dr. Georg Landauer, regarding obtaining certificates for legal aliya to Eretz Israel especially for inmates in the Vittel camp.

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Jewish Agency personnel in Jerusalem regarding obtaining certificates for legal aliya to Eretz Israel especially for inmates in the Vittel camp Correspondence with Jewish Agency personnel in Jerusalem: Eliyahu Dobkin, Yitzhak Greenboim, and Dr. Georg Landauer, regarding obtaining certificates for legal aliya to Eretz Israel especially for inmates in the Vittel camp. Also in the file: Circular regarding Land Transfer Regulations issued 30 April 1940.

  6. 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.

  7. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Chaim Barlas and Dr. Joseph Goldin, Jewish Agency representatives on the Va'ad Hatzala in Istanbul

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Chaim Barlas and Dr. Joseph Goldin, Jewish Agency representatives on the Va'ad Hatzala in Istanbul Correspondence with Chaim Barlas and Dr. Joseph Goldin, Jewish Agency representatives on the Va'ad Hatzala in Istanbul, regarding aliya, budgets for relief and rescue activities and sending parcels and protective passports to long-time members of the Zionist movement. Also in the file: - Contents of a telephone conversation between Chaim Barlas in Geneva and Moshe Shertok (Sharett) in Amsterdam regarding legal aliya certificates to Eretz Is...

  8. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Venja Pomerantz and Menachem Bader, representatives of the Jewish Agency United Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Venja Pomerantz and Menachem Bader, representatives of the Jewish Agency United Vaad Hatzala in Istanbul Correspondence regarding organizing relief activities and rescue of members of the Zionist movement in the occupied countries, raising money and sending passports. Also in the file: - Letter regarding the establishment of a relief committee in Geneva which would include all relief, contact and rescue activities, and would be under the Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency with representatives on the Rescue Committee in Istanbul,...

  9. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in New York regarding returning money to cover expenses for the release of 36 pioneers in Romania

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in New York regarding returning money to cover expenses for the release of 36 pioneers in Romania Incomplete file of correspondence with the JDC administration in New York. Also in the file: - Copy of a letter to the JDC in Paris regarding people in various camps in Germany with an attached list, 03 July 1945; - Copy of a letter from the JDC in New York to the Organization of Former Yugoslavians in the United States regarding relief sent to the Jews of Yugoslavia in Bari, Topusko and ...

  10. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Warsaw regarding extending relief to various private people

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Warsaw regarding extending relief to various private people Incomplete file of correspondence with the JDC in Warsaw regarding extending relief to various private people Also in the file: - Copies of correspondence of Dr. Chaim Pozner with the JDC in Warsaw regarding relief to refugees in Kowel, April-July 1940; - Announcement of the tragic death of the JDC Chairman, David Guzik, 11 March 1946.

  11. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Agudat Israel in Zurich Executive Committee file with correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) regarding shipment of protective passports

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Agudat Israel in Zurich Executive Committee file with correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) regarding shipment of protective passports Also in the file: - Correspondence regarding a dispute over money and arbitration, 26 January 1944 and 31 May 1946; - Correspondence regarding help to refugee rabbis in Shanghai, 12 February 1943 and 28 July 1943.

  12. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archives: Correspondence with Dr. A. Singelovsky, one of the leaders of the Geneva Organization Rehabilitation Trade (ORT) organization, regarding the urgent need for ORT activities in Poland and the DP camps in Austria

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archives: Correspondence with Dr. A. Singelovsky, one of the leaders of the Geneva Organization Rehabilitation Trade (ORT) organization, regarding the urgent need for ORT activities in Poland and the DP camps in Austria Also in the file: - Copy of a letter from the She’erith Hapletah (Survivors of the Holocaust in Europe after World War II) administration in Vienna to ORT in Geneva regarding the need for vocational training for people in the DP camps, 31 October 1946; - Circular issued by ORT calling upon the refugees in Switzerland to participate in vocational trai...

  13. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Zurich regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerl

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Zurich regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerland Incomplete folder regarding sending relief to Holocaust survivors in Poland and Austria and bringing youth and children in poor health for treatment in Switzerland. Also in the file: - Speech delivered by Dr. Paul Guggenheim regarding contemporary problems of Swiss Jewry; - Speech delivered by the President of the Bern Jewish community ...

  14. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Swiss Union of Jewish Assistance Committees (VSIA) and the Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations (VSJF) regarding help to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, transfer of

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Swiss Union of Jewish Assistance Committees (VSIA) and the Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations (VSJF) regarding help to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, transfer of money and documents to various countries and searches for relatives Also in the file: - Correspondence with the Social Welfare Department of the Jewish community in Basel regarding the sending of parcels of food to Poland, September-December 1942; - Letter from the Jewish community in Schaffhausen regarding the Vyhne camp in Slovakia, 26 Fe...

  15. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees in Switzerland: correspondence regarding matters pertaining to Jewish refugees in Switzerland: with the Eidgenossoaches Justiz und Polizeidepartment, Arbeterlager fuer Emigration and Polizeiabteilung

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees in Switzerland: correspondence regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland: with the Eidgenossoaches Justiz und Polizeidepartment, Arbeterlager fuer Emigration and Polizeiabteilung Incomplete correspondence file regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland. Also in the file: - Exchange of letters with Dr. David Farbstein, a member of the Swiss Parliament, regarding his intervention on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, October 1940; - Excerpt from a report regarding a debate held in the Nationalrat (Swiss National Council), 22 September ...

  16. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Alphabetical list of the names of emigrants living in Switzerland

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Alphabetical list of the names of emigrants living in Switzerland Also in the file: -Newspaper clippings regarding the condition of the refugees in Switzerland; - Photographs taken at labor camps for refugees in Switzerland, 1940-1944; - List of refugees from Italy.

  17. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the administrators of the Caux Sur Montreux camps and the refusal of the refugees to be transferred to Algeria

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the administrators of the Caux Sur Montreux refugee camps and the refusal of the refugees to be transferred to Algeria Also in the file: - List of 1,362 refugees in Caux, 26 December 1944; - Letter of Maxim Glancz from Engelberg regarding help to members of a youth group from Bergen-Belsen now in Switzerland, 07 September 1945.

  18. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Proclamation of camp survivors in Switzerland entitled "An Alle Freien Voelker" ("To All Free Nations") calling for recognition of the rights of the Jewish people to an independent state in Eretz Israel

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Proclamation of camp survivors in Switzerland entitled "An Alle Freien Voelker" ("To All Free Nations") calling for recognition of the rights of the Jewish people to an independent state in Eretz Israel In the file: 1. Various versions of the proclamation; 2. Version of the proclamation along with signatures of former camp inmates; 3. Reactions to the proclamation; 4. Clippings from Swiss newspapers in which the proclamation was published.

  19. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence regarding relief for refugee children in Switzerland

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence regarding relief for refugee children in Switzerland Also in the file: - Letter from an unknown female writer regarding treatment of refugee children in an orphanage in Ascona, 10 January 1944; - Various reports regarding orphanages for refugees in Switzerland and the number of refugee children; - Report submitted by L'Union Internationale De Secours Aux Enfants, 1942.

  20. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Organization of Polish Students in Switzerland regarding relief

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Organization of Polish Students in Switzerland regarding relief Also in the file: - Lists and questionnaires of Polish students; - Memo from the Organization of Polish Students to Bundesrat Eduard von Steiger regarding the attitude of the Swiss government towards the Polish organization, and the response from the Federal Department of Justice and Police regarding the legal status of refugee students and Jewish students, April -May 1941; - Memo regarding the relations between Poles and Jews in detention camps for Polish soldiers in Sw...