<p>This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Friedrich Falk, a Jewish lawyer from Dusseldorf who emigrated on the Kitchener camp scheme to England intending to move to Palestine to escape Nazi persecutions.</p>Personal papers of Friedrich Falk including his qualifications and work references, various police certificates confirming his places of residence as well as correspondence ...

Consists of 11 photographs documenting the arrival of Jewish children and youths in Palestine who were assisted in fleeing Nazi Europe with help from the Youth Aliyah organization founded by Recha Freier and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Select photographs depict the arrival of the so-called "Tehran children" who lived as refugees in Iran prior to their immigration to Palestine.

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection consists of correspondence of the Council for German Jewry on the following subjects: dismissals of Jewish staff at Göttingen University (608/1); Austrian Jewish refugees from the Burgenland; various synagogue congregations in Germany ...

The Chaim Posner papers consist of correspondence and notes documenting Chaim Posner, his work as director of the Palästina Amt in Geneva in the 1940s, and his work for the State of Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. Correspondence comes from Basel, Geneva, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, ...

Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors ...

The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged according to structure. The collection contains the HICEM charter (January 1935); accounts of HICEM activities for 1926-39; circulars to HICEM branch offices (1933-40) on rules for filling out a central card file of émigrés; on conditions of emigration to Uruguay, Ecuador, Haiti, and other countries, and on ...

The collection's contents are described in one inventory arranged geographically and thematically. It consists of documents from Austria (67 files), Belgium (1), Britain (1), Czechoslovakia (1), France (3), Germany (87), Latvia (1), Poland (3) Yugoslavia (1), various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (40), Zionist organizations (8), Jewish emigration (4), Jewish political organizations (8), societies ...

Five paper items related to the search for relatives during and after World War II. Includes a document sent from a branch of the Jewish Agency in London to the Agency's representative in Jerusalem, containing information about Holocaust survivors in Europe, July 1944; a letter by the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, with a request to track down a Holocaust survivor's sister, who was alone ...

Contains fifteen letters sent to survivor Zvi Brick, the former director of the Jewish Agency office in Kovno, while he stayed in a displaced persons camp in Italy. Addressed from New York, Munich, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, dated 1946-1947, in Yiddish, Hebrew and some English. The letters were sent mainly from official entities and they record the state of the displaced, the difficulties of immigration ...

Contains a Palestine immigration certificate issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to Tania Rozmaryn in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, issued April 30, 1948; and a "Temporary Travel Document in Lieu of Passport" issued to Mendel Rozmaryn, dated November 10, 1951. Tania and Mendel married in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, where their son Jacob (donor) was born.

The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other ...

The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such ...

The collection consists of written recollections, protocols of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related to the registration of the Jewish communities, documents of the countryside ghettos, Holocaust-related ...

This collection contains selected records of the Savings and Credits Institute for the Economy, Co. related to the Jewish community of Pest : registration documents, statistical data, admissions booklet of credit unions for year 1944; tax returns, annual payroll for employees in 1940, insurance policies, correspondence and requests for assistance; statements of the Jewish emigration group; a contract ...

This collection of mostly original correspondence between Siegfried Kessler, a Czech Jewish exile in London, and various organisations and individuals, sheds light on the conditions of Czech Jews in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the war and the processes involved in getting them out.</div><br>According to an incomplete curriculum vitae at -/20

List of residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for relatives. The table includes names of 159 residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for their relatives worldwide with some residing in Palestine and others in Europe, Displaced Persons Camps, Cyprus, and the USA. Source of information is registered in the left-hand side column, such as the Jewish Agency or the Joint Distribution Committee.

Consists of extensive personal papers, reports, and publications collected by Hans Winter, who worked for the Jewish Agency in Geneva and London in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war personal papers and photographs, reports generated by the Jewish Agency and the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, and wartime and postwar publications related to World War II, life in Palestine ...

The collection consists of a letter sent by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, sending him a holiday greeting, December 23, 1939, and Cyrus’s reply by telegram on December 24. Roosevelt’s salutation incorrectly addresses Adler as a rabbi. Also included are several clippings of articles authored or edited by Rabbi David Aronson for ...

Collection of documents of the Neumann (Nenner) family from their time in the Displaced Persons Camp in Lechfeld in Germany and their immigration to Palestine; dated 1940s-1950s. Includes a temporary exit pass from the artillery officers' course taking place in a military garrison, Bucharest, 1943; a civil marriage certificate, Bucharest, 1944; a recruitment certificate to "Va'ad leSherut Ha'Am" in ...

Contains a Polish passport issued to Abram and Rywka Lasowski in 1935, with stamps showing their immigration to Palestine via Lisbon and Greece; and a document in Hebrew and some English, issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine office in Lisbon, 1935, for the Lasockis. Also includes seven photographs.

Crowd of people outside Hadassah Medical Organization. CU entrance. Nurses process for the funeral services of Henriette Szold, founder of the School of Nurses on Mt. Scopus. Towards Jewish cemetery. Shots of road, outside town. Crowd of men. Many people, Jerusalem seen in the BG. View of the mountains over the Dead Sea. Shots from hillside. Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. 06:19:49 Students walk under ...

Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina; studied in a secular high school; graduated from a four-year course in optics and mechanics. In 1913 he moved to Vienna. In 1917 he began to publish articles concerned with Labor Zionism in "Der yidisher arbiter"(The Jewish worker). He contributed to "Undzer bavegung" (Our movement), "Virtshaft un lebn" (Economy and life), "Der veg" (The way), and a number of Jewish-German ...

Gabriel Chaim Zvi Pappenheim (circa 1897-circa 1947) was born circa 1897 in either Vienna or Munich to Wilhelm (Wolf) Binyamin Pappenheim (1848–1938) and Louise Lana Tuli Schiff (1852–1923). He married Hanna Goldschmidt Pappenheim (1900–1980), and the couple had two children: Salomo (1926-?) and Ruth (1929–2007). The family immigrated to Palestine before 1929. Pappenheim was a member of Agudat Israel ...