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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

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

    M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959 There are 220 files in the record group, which includes various publications, such as bulletins, reports, letters and surveys, containing information regarding the condition of the Jews in occupied Europe during World War II. The information was gathered, collated and distributed by Jewish organizations in Eretz Israel, Turkey (Istanbul) and Switzerland during the war and the early postwar years. Some of the communications were intended for distribution solely among the members of the or...

  2. O.22- The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the "Forverts" newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951

    O.22- The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the "Forverts" newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951 J. Mecker was one of the editors of the "Forverts" newspaper published (in Yiddish) in New York. Between 1945 and 1951 Mecker collected letters and written testimonies sent to the newspaper by Holocaust survivors. Some of this documentation appeared in the newspaper. Newspaper clippings as well as manuscripts of letters and testimonies that were not published in the newspapers were submitted to Yad Vashem by Ms. Rachel Auerbach in 195...

  3. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969 The estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz was submitted to Yad Vashem by B. Froehlich, the executor of the estate in 1972; it was transferred to Israel by Herbert Rosenkranz. In the Record Group: - Drafts and galley proofs of Benjamin Sagalowitz's book, "The Way to Majdanek"; - Documentation regarding the Jewish communities in Switzerland, 1929-1956; - Documentation regarding JUNA, 1935-1964; - Documentation regarding the attitude of the Swiss authorities towards the Jewish ...

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

    M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951 Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerla...

  5. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  6. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, May 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, מאי (ב) 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, May 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing - Information regarding the state of the Jewish refugees in Berlin after the war; - Information from a report issued 11 January 1946 regarding the state of the Jewish refugees in Hungary after the war; - Excerpt from a letter written in Thessalonica, November 1946 containing information regarding the state of r...

  7. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, May 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, מאי (ב) 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, May 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the state of the Jewish refugees in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Vienna and in the DP camps in Germany after the war; - Information regarding the murder of Jews in Poland; - Information regarding displays of antisemitism in Hungary; - Information regarding activities of Jewish parti...

  8. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, June 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, יוני (ב) 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, June 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the state of the Jewish refugees in Germany, Hungary and Poland after the war, including harassment of Jewish refugees; - Testimony regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  9. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, September 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,בולטין, ספטמבר 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, September 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the state of the Jewish refugees in Europe, and especially in Poland and Germany.

  10. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, September 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, ספטמבר (ב) 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, September 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the return of Jews from the Soviet Union to Poland extracted from a bulletin issued by the Central Jewish Committee in Warsaw, June 1946; - Information regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Vienna, Czechoslovakia and Italy; - Testimony of Dov Ber Lemberg regarding the ...

  11. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, November 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, נובמבר (ב) 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, November 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Europe, summer 1946; - Information regarding escape of the Jews from Poland, and the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; - Information regarding the finding of the Ringelblum Archive; - Excerpts from a letter sent from...

  12. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, December 1946

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,בולטין, דצמבר 1946

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, December 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the murder of the Jews in Belgium, She’erith Hapletah in Europe, October 1946, and the murder of the Jews of Kaunas.

  13. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, January 1947

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, ינואר 1947

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, January 1947 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the situation of Jewish refugees in Poland, Germany and Austria, 1946; - Testimony of a Jewish youth, 15, born in Romania, regarding his experiences in Suceava, deportation to Transnistria, and his aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Haganah".

  14. Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, October 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, אוקטובר 1944

    Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, October 1944 Excerpts from a report issued by the National Jewish Committee in the underground in Poland, May 1944; experiences of a refugee from Poland in Belgium during the war; report regarding Sobibor; testimony regarding Majdanek; testimony of Rivka Kleiner, born in Eretz Israel, who was in Sosnowiec during the war; the situation of the Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania; testi...

  15. Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, November 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, נובמבר (ב) 1944

    Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, November 1944 Situation of the Jews in Romania until October 1944; the final battle in the Bialystok Ghetto; testimony of a survivor regarding the situation of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto, December 1943; testimony of a female survivor from Krakow who escaped to Eretz Israel via Romania and Hungary, July 1944, regarding forced labor in German workshops in Bochnia until August 1943; testi...

  16. Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, December 1944

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל, ביולטין, דצמבר 1944

    Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, December 1944 Situation of the Jews in Belgium; situation of the Jews in Czernowitz; Jewish children in Transnistria; testimony of Jewish refugees regarding the situation of the Jews in the areas annexed to Hungary, 1939; situation of the Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania; testimony of a survivor who escaped to Sweden; information regarding the Janowska camp submitted by a witness ...

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, November 1945

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, נובמבר (ב) 1945

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, November 1945 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe after the war; - Excerpt from a letter written by a refugee in Shanghai, October 1945; - Excerpt from a letter written by a female survivor from Kaunas, May 1945; - A survey of the Chelmno camp; - Information from a survivor regarding the...

  20. Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, December 1945

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, דצמבר 1945

    Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, December 1945 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Information regarding the situation of the Jews in a DP camp in Germany, and the situation of the Jews in Berlin; - Excerpt from a letter written by a female refugee from Poland living in Sweden, October 1945; - A survey of Theresienstadt.