A group photograph of 21 people, 12 parachutists from the Yishuv, about six months before they were parachuted into occupied Europe. The paratroopers are identified by numbers on the photograph and the names index on the back of the photograph. Photographed on April 23, 1944. The names on the back are on a sticker affixed to the back of the photo, on the back side are glue residues from an album in ...

Tekst geheel in het Hebreeuws, introduction in het Engels. IV, 116 p. ; 30 cm.

A poster announcing a day of mourning and a protest rally subsequent to the deportation to Germany of the illegal immigrants of SS "Exodus."

Notwithstanding considerable disagreement that Persisted between the Zionist left and right, the author argues that largescale rescue of Jews through immigration to Palestine was doomed in the 1930's. even a United Zionist movement could not have altered the outcome in view of limited financial resources and mounting british opposition to mass aliya. edelheit investigates the spectrum of zionist responses ...

One leaf, printed, with text in Hebrew, issued in the name of the "Mishmar Ha Yishuv," commemorating the victims of the sinking of the ship, S.S. Patria, in Haifa harbor, Palestine, on 25 November 1940. The ship was sunk by the explosion of a bomb, planted by members of the Haganah, who hoped to disable the ship so that it would not be able to transport over 1,000 refugees to a British-run internment ...

Contains seven proclamations regarding the boycott of German products and the Transfer Agreements, printed in Palestine; undated, likely 1930s. Includes propaganda and publicity handbills regarding the ban which the Yishuv imposed on German products. The proclamations are (in translation): "Begone German products!", advertisement for Velux razor blades made in Switzerland which "declared that it will ...

O.67 - Documentation from the Labor Party Archives, 1942-1945
 
 The documentation in this record group includes reports, letters, newspaper clippings and lists regarding the situation of the Jews of Europe in the German occupied areas, and documentation of organizations related to the and to the rescue activities of these organizations; 
 
 This record group includes documentation ...

This collection consists of records relating to relief initiatives overseen by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Jerusalem Office (JDC) in the aftermath of World War II in the Yishuv/Israel and internationally. Includes records of the JDC’s partnerships with Jewish communities worldwide, such as those in Australia and South Africa, to send essential supplies to recipients in Palestine, ...

Documentation regarding Keren Hayesod in Riga, 1920-1940
 
 Keren Hayesod was established at the annual conference of the World Zionist Organization held in London in July 1920, as the fundraising arm of the Zionist movement. The Keren Hayesod Manifest of 1920 reflected the determination and decisiveness of the new Zionist organization: "The time has arrived for the concentration of the Jewish ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Founded in 1920, the Va’ad Leumi (the Jewish National Council or the Jewish People’s Council) represented the organized Jewish community in Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel), which was governed by the British Mandate of Palestine. The organization served as the executive body of the Elected Assembly of Representatives. The Assembly was the supreme representative body of the Yishuv (the Jewish community), ...

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Sarid
 
 Testimonies/ interviews:
 
 1. Siomka Danzig;
 2. Rachel Danzig;
 3. Shulamit Tuvin;
 4. Riko Lupesko Lupi;
 5. Yosef Leichter;
 6. Mila Leichter;
 7. Ineka Peker;
 8. Yehuda Peker;
 ...

Joseph Harmatz was born January 23, 1925 to Abrasha (Abraham) and Dora (Dvora) Baron Harmatz of Rokiskis, Lithuania and had two brothers, Zvi Hirsch (b. 1923) and Efraim (b. 1927). Joseph's father was a wholesale merchant, who owned a warehouse in Rokiskis' market square. The Harmatz family moved to Vilna in 1940, where Abrasha purchased several factories. Joseph was enrolled in a Lithuanian gymnasium ...

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi
 
 Interviews/ testimonies:
 
 1. "Hagarin HaAngli" ("The English settlement group") (Beno Nussbaum, Vered Grad, Dolfi Eilat, Alfredo Zeron, Walter Braun, Avi Haber);
 2. "Hakvutza HaTurkit" ("The Turkish group") ...