The collections consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.

O.54 - The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965
 
 The JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten-Presseagentur) was set up in 1936 by the Federation of Swiss Jewish communities in an effort to counteract antisemitic and pro-Nazi activity in Switzerland. Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz was its director until 1965 (see record group P.13).
 This collections consists ...

Contains correspondence relating to the Jewish communities in postwar Germany as well as activities related to heirless property and restitution, including correspondence with the International Trust Corporation, Haavara, the United Restitution Office, various offices of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency and Youth Aliyah, minutes of meetings, statistics and reports. Note: Online ...

Contains records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property (Υπηρεσία Διαχείρισης Ισραηλιτικών Περιουσιών, YDIP) Greece, an agency which regulated the expropriation of Jewish shops and businesses in Greece during the war. Contains case files for individual shops as well as regulatory guidelines and operations procedures for the agency. Accretion of a microilm reel #18 (Part B) contains ...

Contains various records from the Geneva Office of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, including correspondence of the World Zionist Organization offices; the Jewish Agency offices in London; newspaper offices in different countries; the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod in different countries; and correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations and with the ...

Contains various records from the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency; including reports on persecution of Jews; reports on immigration from various countries; on integration and immigration of youth as well as of senior Zionists activists; name lists from Theresienstadt; name lists of immigrants and candidates for immigration; and documentation of searches by relatives in Europe. Also includes ...

Consulaten te Haifa en Jeruzalem (Palestina / Israël) > Sociale Aangelegenheden > Actie van de Jewish Agency en het Adviesbureau voor Immigranten uit Nederland om joden en andere slachtoffers uit Nederland te redden.

Rabbi Eugene Lipman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1919. He graduated from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. He then was sent overseas as an army chaplain in April 1945. Afterthe war enfded on May, he worked helping Jewish survivors at Buchenwald and Dachau concnetration camps before being sent to Plzen, Czechoslovakia. He joined the Haganah, a group that cared for Jewish ...

Contains various records and correspondence on the situation of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and on Jewish refugees in Palestine. Includes reports prepared by envoys in Istanbul, correspondence concerning Australian, Argentinean, South African, Iraqi and other Jewish communities, search requests for missing relatives, aid requests from individuals in Palestine and abroad, requests for the release of ...

In the collection there is documentation primarily regarding the background to Grossmann's activities as a press officer after World War II, along with documentation regarding the negotiations conducted between Israel and Germany concerning the reparations. The documentation includes mainly German publications regarding German legislation concerning reparations and reports of Grossmann's trips to Germany. ...

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 ...

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 ...

M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations
 
 Kurt Grossmann was born in Berlin, Germany. He served as the Executive Director of the League for Human Rights from 1926 to 1933. In February 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he founded the Democratic ...

The World Zionist Organization (WZO), was founded as the Zionist Organization (ZO; 1897–1960) at the initiative of Theodor Herzl at the First World Zionist Congress, which took place in August 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. When it was founded, the goals of the Zionist movement were stated in a resolution that came from that Congress and came to be known as the “Basel Program,” and which set as its chief ...

Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Copyright Holder: Historijski arhiv Sarajevo

Firstly, we note in this fonds several series of correspondence which are of interest to this guide. Files Z4/30867 - Z4/30870 contain correspondence regarding “Zionist work” in Belgium (for the years 1927-1946). Correspondence on immigration from Belgium (often with lists of immigrants) and family research can be found in the files Z4/32408 to Z4/32412 (1943-1947). Various correspondence (regarding ...

(Munich No. 375) Jewish Officials at Bensheim, Bensheim, Germany, April 8, 1946. Jacob Blaustein, I.L. Kenen and Chaplain Friedman visit Bensheim Jewish DP center. MS, CU, displaced adults and children. Children marching through the camp street. Blaustein and Chaplain Friedman with group of DPs. More of young boys and girls marching energetically. Officials arrive at Victory Club, where they were to ...

Copyright Holder: Arhiv Bosne i Herzegovine

Copyright Holder: Arhiv Bosne i Herzegovine

Contains FIAT files of captured enemy documents relating to Montan Anlage Auschwitz and Montan-Auschwitz Vertragsfragen. Also contains files relating to Jewish affairs and the treatment of Jewish DPs (Operation "Oasis") and various private office papers and administration and local government branch files.

On October 3, 1941, the French right-wing Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) bombed six synagogues and one Jewish prayer house in Paris. The only scholarship addressing this “Nuit Bleue” focuses on the Nazi Security and Police Service, who provided the explosives but neither planned nor executed the attacks. Below, the authors restore memory of the bombing and re-establish French agency and culpability. ...

P.12 - Chaim Pazner Archives: Representative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Switzerland during World War II
 
 The record group contains a variety of documentation collected by Dr. Chaim Pazner (Chaim Posner) over the course of his life, mainly while serving as Director of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
 - Files 80-112 include files of the War Refugee ...